Qualla: Coevorden https://qualla.com/coevorden en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Coevorden https://qualla.com/coevorden Coevorden: Introduction https://qualla.com/coevorden/ Look at a satellite image of Coevorden and the old town pops out of the surrounding farmland like a paper snowflake. Six points. Straight roads radiating from the center. Star bastions still traceable in the gardens and parks that replaced their cannons. The shape is not romantic - it is military geometry, designed to deny attackers a flat line of fire on any wall. It also turns out to be the reason a major Canadian city and a smaller American one are both named after this little place in Drenthe.

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Coevorden: From Coevorden, to Vancouver https://qualla.com/coevorden/ The name first shows up in writing in 1036, attached to a man called Fredericus van Coevorden - Frederik from Coevorden. The van is the Dutch tussenvoegsel, the small connector that simply means 'of' or 'from.' Sometime in the medieval centuries, a branch of the family drifted to...

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-from-coevorden-to-vancouver.mp3 0:06 2 full Coevorden: Drenthe's Oldest City https://qualla.com/coevorden/ Coevorden is the oldest city in the province of Drenthe and was for centuries a fortified town that mattered out of proportion to its size. It sits on the historical route between Groningen and Munster - a trade road that became, in wartime, a supply road. Whoever held Coevorden ...

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-drenthes-oldest-city.mp3 0:06 3 full Coevorden: The Battle of Ane https://qualla.com/coevorden/ The most famous episode in Coevorden's long quarrel with the bishops of Utrecht came in 1227, when Bishop Otto van Lippe rode into Drenthe to enforce his rights and was killed - along with most of his army - in a swampy disaster called the Battle of Ane. The Drenthe peasants, fig...

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-the-battle-of-ane.mp3 0:06 4 full Coevorden: The Star Town https://qualla.com/coevorden/ The star-shaped layout you see in Coevorden today is older than the modern country. It was the standard answer of Renaissance and early-modern Dutch military engineers to the new threat of cannon: build outward pointing bastions so that defenders could fire along the wall instead...

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-the-star-town.mp3 0:06 5 full Coevorden: The Quiet Present https://qualla.com/coevorden/ Coevorden today is a comfortable small city of about sixteen thousand people, the rest of the municipality bringing the total to around thirty-six thousand. Its postwar decades were difficult; the neighboring town of Emmen grew faster and absorbed businesses and institutions that...

Read more: Coevorden on Qualla

]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/g/coevorden-wp/u1kg-coevorden-the-quiet-present.mp3 0:06 6 full