Every design for Coevorden
Wear your town with pride
13 unique designs from the town of Coevorden in Drenthe – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 449 SEKSweatshirt
from 449 SEKTote bag
from 129 SEKAbout Coevorden
Oldest city in Drenthe
Star-shaped streets
Vancouver's namesake
Coevorden is known as the oldest city in Drenthe and, further afield, as the town that indirectly gave its name to Vancouver: the explorer George Vancouver had ancestors who came to England from Coevorden. The name itself means 'cow ford', a place where cattle crossed, and it first appears in 1036. City rights followed in 1408, and the old fortified core still keeps its star-shaped pattern of radiating streets.
Its position explains a great deal. Coevorden lies in the far south-east of Drenthe, about 2 km from the German border, between Emmen and Hardenberg on the N34, and shares a provincial border with Overijssel. Sitting on the route from Groningen to Münster made it a prosperous fortress town, and one worth fighting over: viscounts, bishops of Utrecht and a count of Bentheim all contested it. Today the Kasteel van Coevorden and the green of the Van Heutszpark are the places most people point to first.
If those radiating streets are the ones you learned to cycle in, you will find your town on this map before you have read its name.
Shown on the map
Location: Drenthe, Netherlands
Coordinates: 52.6612°N, 6.7407°E
