Kuvorden

The first mention of Kuvorden, in the name of Frederick of Kuvordensky, refers to 1036 . The first literal mention, in the form of the niderl. Koevoorde (in the sense of “cow ford” - a place where peasants drove herds across the river) is found in the charter of 1148.

In 1141, Bishop Hartbert van Birum makes his brother, Ludolf van Birum, a Viscount of Quuvarden, with the right of inheritance. In the face of Brother Hartbert, therefore, he gets a faithful vassal . Soon after the death of Hartbert in 1150, the connection between the Utrecht diocese on the one hand and the settlement and the feud Kuvorden on the other weakened.

After Ludolph, the viscounts of Kuvorden were his sons - Volker of Kuvordensky and Rudolf I of Kuvordensky. They behaved as independent feudal overlords. In 1182, this led to the siege and plunder of the city by the army of Bishop Baudeveyn II of Holland. The bishop appointed Count Otto van Bentheim as the new master of the castle. For a long time after this, the old Kuvorden overlords and Otto disputed each other’s rights to rule over the feud. From 1186 to 1192, hostilities again took place, as a result of which Rudolf I was captured. Meanwhile, Volker managed to capture the castle and the Otto family. This allowed the brothers to defeat the episcopal viceroy, with the result that Rudolph became the viscount of Quovorden. Volker settled in Ansen , later his son became the new viscount of Quuorden - Rudolf II of Kuvordensky.

Kuvorden was on the way from Groningen to Münster , which gave it great strategic importance. In 1215, the Utrecht bishop Otto II Lippsky decided to consolidate the power of the diocese over the territory, including to increase his own income from the region. However, he ran into opposition from local peasants who supported Viscount Rudolph II. This led to the battle of Ana , where the bishop was killed, and the Drenttian peasants led by Rudolf II won a crushing victory.

The new bishop, Wilbrand van Oldenbürg, tried to continue the struggle against the rebellious inhabitants of Drenthe and called for the help of the Frisians , which led to the Frisian-Drenthen war, in which the Drentz won again. Only later, in the battle of Payze , the episcopal forces managed to prevail over the peasant detachments. Rudolf II was tricked into Hardenberg , captured, tortured and executed on July 25, 1230.

In 1288, Reinaud Kuvordensky, the grandson of Rudolph II, resumed independent rule of the castle and the adjacent lands and laid the foundation for the dynasty of the Kuvordena rulers (all of them were named after Reynaud), which existed until 1402. However, high taxes and other unjust actions of the overlords adversely affected their popularity among their vassals, which the Bishop of Utrecht Frederick van Blankenheim did not fail to take advantage of. By the end of the fourteenth century, the small local feudal lords recognized the bishop as their overlord, and in 1402 the owner of the castle Reynaud IV of Kuvordensky renounced his rights to power and moved with his family to possessions in Twent and Akhteruk . Kuvorden part of Oversticht .

On December 31, 1407, Bishop Frederick van Blankenheim grants the status of a town to a settlement.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Kuvorden with the rest of the Drent lands was part of the possessions of the Duke Karl Geldern . In 1536, Geldern governor Johan van Selbach was forced to hand over the castle and settlement to the possession of Emperor Charles V.

At the end of the sixteenth century, the castle was seized by Spanish troops. Moritz of Orange managed to expel the Spaniards in 1592, but the settlement was burned by them before they left. Kuvorden had to rebuild.

At the end of the seventeenth century, Bishop of Munster repeatedly attempted to seize or destroy the city. In 1673, the city was under siege by the forces of the bishop under the leadership of Bommen Berend, who ordered the Vecht River to be dammed to flood the city. However, a sudden storm destroys the dam and saves the inhabitants of the city from flooding.

Between 1795 and 1814, the Quvorden was captured by the French army. French troops were greeted by the local population as liberators. After Napoleon’s abdication of the imperial throne in 1814, they hastily left the city in complete disarray and accompanied by fires that caused damage to 76 thousand guilders .

After World War II, neighboring Emmen experienced rapid economic growth and became the most important city in the region. Many enterprises and institutions move from Kuvorden to Emmen. It was only in the eighties and nineties that Kuvorden partially compensated for the lost economic and political importance with the arrival of the IAMS pet food manufacturing company and the construction of a NATO sorting station. The station is currently at the disposal of the Netherlands Army.

In 1998, the redistribution of the communities of Drenthe took place, and the lands of the former communities of Dalen , Ostersesselen , Slen and Zvelo joined the community of Kuvorden.

In 2014, at the festival in Midlaren, sculptor Ilya Shanin dedicated a five-meter sand sculpture to the history of the city of Kuvorden.

• Castle Kuvorden
• Monument “Oraniebank” in honor of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana and husband of Juliana - Bernard Lippe-Bisterfeld
• Defensive Shaft "De Katshar"
• State Museum "Drenthe's Veste" ("Drentz fortress")
• Old water tower

In other localities of the community:

• Mill "De Arend" ("Eagle"), Kloster
• Mill-Museum "Jan Paul", Dalen
• The open-air museum "Ellert and Brammert", Schonord

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  Castle Kuvorden

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  Monument "Three gouty", Quvorden

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  Old Water Tower, Kuvorden

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  Arsenal Building, Quuvarden

The community of Kuvorden is located in the south of the province of Drenthe and borders on the communities of Emmen and Borger-Odorn in the east, A-en-Hyunze in the north, Midden-Drenthe and Hoogeveen in the west, Hardenberg (province of Overeissel ) and the federal land of Lower Saxony ( Germany ) in the south .

The community Kuvorden includes 38 settlements. Population as of January 1, 2004 (according to the data of the Netherlands Central Statistical Bureau) ^[1] :

Other locations:

The burgomaster and the council of administrators

• Mayor: Bert Baumester, Democrats 66
• Administrator: Thrus Pot Eland, Labor Party
• Administrator: Gert Bram, Labor Party
• Administrator: Yetty Remmelts-van Royen, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy
• Administrator: Gert Roules, People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy