Bedum
Former municipality in Groningen, Netherlands
Bedum (Dutch: [ˈbeːdʏm] ⓘ; Gronings: Beem [beɪ̯m]) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by an unknown number of inhabitants (data missing) in 2021, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.
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.
01The 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.
02Former population centres
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