Bedum

Bedum
—  Municipality  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 53°18′N 6°36′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Groningen
Area(2006)
• Total	44.96 km2 (17.36 sq mi)
• Land	44.58 km2 (17.21 sq mi)
• Water	0.38 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
• Total	10,617
• Density	238/km2 (620/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Bedum ( pronunciation , Gronings: Beem) is a municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by around 10,000 (2005) inhabitants, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns.

Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).

Bedum has a railway station - Bedum railway station.

The leaning tower

Bedum's 36-metre tower of the St Walfridus church has been calculated as now leaning at a greater angle than the leaning tower of Pisa. If both towers were the same height, Bedum's would have a greater displacement by 6 cm.

Population centres

• Bedum
• Noordwolde
• Onderdendam
• Zuidwolde
• Ellerhuizen
• Westerdijkshorn

Mayors

• 1860-1873 J.H. Leopold (previously mayor of Adorp)
• 1873-1878 W.J. Bekker
• 1878-1895 R.J. van Bruggen
• 1895-1909 dr H.V. Schleurholts
• 1909-1914 Simon Berman (previously of Kwadijk, Warder, and Middelie and of Schagen, subsequently of Alblasserdam)
• 1914-1917 Klaas van Sevenhoven (ARP) (previously of Stedum, subsequently of Onstwedde)
• 1917-1943 M. Jouwstra (ARP) (previously town clerk of Ambt Hardenberg)
• 1943-194? I.G. Timmer (NSB)
• 19??-1962 J.N. Spoelstra
• 1962-1971 J.C. Lindeboom (ARP)
• 1971-1991 Albert Smallenbroek (ARP/CDA)
• 1991-2009 Wilte Everts (CDA)
• 2010-Present Henk Bakker (CDA)

External links

• J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Bedum". Map of the former municipality, around 1868.