Sevenum

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Sevenum


mapsize = 280px
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Netherlands
subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_name1 = Limburg
area_footnotes = (2006)
area_total_km2 = 48.66
area_land_km2 = 47.97
area_water_km2 = 0.69
population_as_of = 1 January, 2007
population_note = Source: CBS, [http://statline.cbs.nl/ Statline] .
settlement_type = Municipality
population_total = 7624
population_density_km2 = 159
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2

Sevenum (Pronunciation|158 Sevenum.ogg) is a Dutch municipality and a town in the province Limburg in the southeastern Netherlands.

Location

Sevenum's neighbour towns are (clockwise, starting from East): Venlo, Maasbree, Helden-Panningen, Deurne, Horst.

The municipality Sevenum includes these towns:
*Sevenum
*Kronenberg
*Evertsoord

Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277 (Middenpeelweg), and the railroad track Eindhoven-Venlo; Evertsoord lies on the edge of the Peel, a former peatland.

Dialect

Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerems", is transitional between Limburgish, North-Limburgish (see Low Rhenish), and Brabantian. In the diagram, Sevenum is situated near the bottom-left corner of the blue area, which is the intersection of the horizontal "ich/ik" isogloss (the Uerdingen line) with the vertical "kalt/koud" isogloss.

The list of Limburgish town names at Streektaal.net [http://taal.phileon.nl/lim_namenlijst.php] has "Zaerem" (Sevenum) and "De Kroeënenberg" (Kronenberg), but it doesn't include "De Pieël" (Evertsoord), considering it to be in the North-Limburgish area.

External links

* [http://www.sevenum.nl/default.asp?path=gwsitemanager/content/show/530 Tourism page] (in Dutch) on the [http://www.sevenum.nl official Sevenum website]