The best city hikes and walks in Drenthe

The park is a green lung in the heart of the city. A park where children can play and explore safely yet adventurously, where people can meet, and where they can enjoy sports and exercise. It's also a place where nature is given free rein, where plants and animals feel at home, and where you can relax. At Park Dwingeland, local residents contribute to the park and welcome others to join in.

with a view of Huis ter Heide fields

the old house of writer Anne de Vries of the book about Bartje

Nowadays they are mostly just monuments to a long tradition of craftsmanship, but sometimes they are still in use: the heavy millstones were moved using only the power of the wind to drive them, for example to grind grain into flour (grain mills) or to press oil from olives (oil mills). Sometimes the windmills also had the function of a pumping station and transported water to a higher level to drain a swampy area.

The music venue of Drenthe

The Jewish communities in Europe, whose centuries-old tradition is often only visible to the public through commemorative plaques or monuments, were honored - especially in these difficult times for them with a rapidly growing, openly expressed anti-Semitism - by awarding the "International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen" to the President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, and the Jewish communities in Europe. "In recognition of his outstanding work for peace, the self-determination of peoples and European values, for tolerance, pluralism and understanding, and in recognition of his significant commitment to interreligious and intercultural dialogue, the Board of Directors of the Society for the Award of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen in 2024 honors the President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, and together with him the Jewish communities in Europe. With this award, the Charlemagne Prize Directorate wants to send a signal that Jewish life is a natural part of Europe and that there can be no place for anti-Semitism in Europe. Jewish life is an important part of European history and present - now and in the future. (...)" (May 2024)

The Jewish communities, whose synagogues were largely destroyed during the Nazi regime and which were often wiped out by the Shoah (Holocaust), were honored in May 2024 – especially in these difficult times for them with rapidly growing, openly expressed anti-Semitism – with the award of the "International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen" to Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and the Jewish communities in Europe. "With this award, the Charlemagne Prize Board wishes to send a signal that Jewish life is a natural part of Europe and that there must be no room for anti-Semitism in Europe. Jewish life is an important part of European history and the present – now and in the future. (...) Together with the President of the Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, and the Jewish communities in Europe, the Board... in 2024 honors the outstanding representative of European Jewry and Jewish life in Europe, which has enriched our continent for centuries and always will and must have its place here."

oldest church in Meppel