Weiteveen

Weiteveen started in the 1850s by Hannoverian settlers who settled in the Amsterdamscheveld.^[3] They built sod houses, started excavating the peat, and planting buckwheat on the burnt fields.^[4] In 1919, the Mary Queen of Peace Church was built in the village.^[3] In 1924, a protestant settlement appeared.^[5] Up to 1954, the area was known as Nieuw-Schoonebekerveld.^[4] In 1954, the border between Emmen and Schoonebeek was redrawn, and the two settlements merged as Weiteveen. The name is a combination of buckwheat and bog.^[4][5]

In 1925, the tabernacle of the Mary Queen of Peace Church was stolen. Money was raised among the Catholics in the Netherlands to buy a new tabernacle. A week later, the stolen item was discovered in the moorland.^[6][7] A chapel has been constructed at the site where the tabernacle was found.^[3]

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  The lost and found tabernacle of Weiteveen
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  Church and bog excursion centre
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  Cemetery of Weiteveen
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  Industrial narrow gauge railway museum