- Wilsum
Wilsum (population
as of 2001 : 710) is a village in the Dutch province ofOverijssel . It is located in the municipality of Kampen, about 4km southeast of that city.Wilsum received city rights in
1331 . It is most known for its church, which was built in 1050 and as such the oldest church in the province Overijssel. Thanks to several restorations (the last one being in 1982) the church is still in a very good state.Wilsum was a separate municipality until 1937, when it became a part of
IJsselmuiden . [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/ov/wilsum.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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