Losser
title: "Losser" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["losser", "municipalities-of-overijssel", "populated-places-in-overijssel", "twente"] topic_path: "general/losser" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losser" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | |
| settlement_type | Municipality |
| image_skyline | |
| image_caption | Monumental former factory in Losser |
| image_flag | Flag of Losser.svg |
| flag_size | 100x67px |
| image_shield | Losser wapen.svg |
| shield_size | 100x80px |
| shield_alt | |
| image_map | Map - NL - Municipality code 0168 (2009).svg |
| map_alt | Highlighted position of Losser in a municipal map of Overijssel |
| map_caption | Location in Overijssel |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Netherlands |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Overijssel |
| government_footnotes | {{cite web |
| url | http://www.losser.nl/Politiek/College_van_B_W/College/College_van_B_W |
| title | College van B&W |
| trans-title | Board of mayor and aldermen |
| language | Dutch |
| publisher | Gemeente Losser |
| accessdate | 31 March 2014 |
| url-status | dead |
| archiveurl | https://web.archive.org/web/20140727142707/http://www.losser.nl/Politiek/College_van_B_W/College/College_van_B_W |
| archivedate | 27 July 2014 |
| governing_body | Municipal council |
| leader_party | VVD |
| leader_title | Mayor |
| leader_name | Jeroen Diepemaat |
| unit_pref | |
| area_footnotes | |
| area_total_km2 | |
| area_land_km2 | |
| area_water_km2 | |
| elevation_footnotes | {{cite web |
| url | http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |
| title | Postcodetool for 7581AG |
| language | Dutch |
| work | Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland |
| publisher | Het Waterschapshuis |
| accessdate | 31 March 2014 |
| url-status | dead |
| archiveurl | https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |
| archivedate | 21 September 2013 |
| elevation_m | 35 |
| elevation_max_footnotes | tags -- |
| elevation_min_footnotes | tags -- |
| elevation_min_m | |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | |
| population_as_of | |
| population_density_km2 | |
| population_demonym | Lossernaar, Lossenaar |
| timezone | |
| utc_offset | +1 |
| timezone_DST | CEST |
| utc_offset_DST | +2 |
| postal_code_type | Postcode |
| postal_code | 7580–7589 |
| area_code_type | Area code |
| area_code | 053, 0541 |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Losser
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline = Losser Steenfabriek De Werklust.JPG
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Monumental former factory in Losser
| image_flag = Flag of Losser.svg
| flag_size = 100x67px
| flag_alt =
| image_shield = Losser wapen.svg
| shield_size = 100x80px
| shield_alt =
| image_map = Map - NL - Municipality code 0168 (2009).svg
| map_alt = Highlighted position of Losser in a municipal map of Overijssel
| map_caption = Location in Overijssel
| coordinates =
| coordinates_footnotes =
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Netherlands
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Overijssel
| government_footnotes = {{cite web
|url = http://www.losser.nl/Politiek/College_van_B_W/College/College_van_B_W
|title = College van B&W
|trans-title = Board of mayor and aldermen
|language = Dutch
|publisher = Gemeente Losser
|accessdate = 31 March 2014
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140727142707/http://www.losser.nl/Politiek/College_van_B_W/College/College_van_B_W
|archivedate = 27 July 2014
| governing_body = Municipal council
| leader_party = VVD
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Jeroen Diepemaat
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_total_km2 =
| area_land_km2 =
| area_water_km2 =
| elevation_footnotes = {{cite web
|url=http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
|title=Postcodetool for 7581AG
|language=Dutch
|work=Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
|publisher=Het Waterschapshuis
|accessdate=31 March 2014
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
|archivedate=21 September 2013
| elevation_m = 35
| elevation_max_footnotes = tags --
| elevation_max_m =
| elevation_min_footnotes = tags --
| elevation_min_m =
| population_footnotes =
| population_total =
| population_as_of =
| population_density_km2 =
| population_demonym = Lossernaar, Lossenaar
| timezone = CET
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| postal_code_type = Postcode
| postal_code = 7580–7589
| area_code_type = Area code
| area_code = 053, 0541
| website =
| footnotes =
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Gem-Losser-OpenTopo.jpg" caption="''Dutch Topographic map of Losser, June 2015''"]
::
Losser () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. It is at the eastern end of the A1 motorway.
Population centres
- Beuningen
- De Lutte
- Glane
- Losser
- Overdinkel
Losser
The oldest known reference to Losser dates from the tenth century. Originally, the village consisted of two separate parts. Both were almost completely destroyed when on 21 September 1665, troops from Münster set fire to them.
One of the town's oldest buildings is the Martinustoren (St. Martin's Tower), dating from around 1500 and the only remaining part of a church demolished in 1903.
The district of Glane is home to the Mor Ephrem Monastery, the only Syriac Orthodox monastery in Europe. Originally founded in 1911 as the St Olaf monastery by Norwegian Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambery, it was converted into Syriac Orthodox monastery on 7 July 1984 and is the official diocesan headquarters of the Syriac Orthodox Diocese of the Netherlands.
Geography
A few kilometers west of De Lutte, close to the border with Oldenzaal, lies the Tankenberg, a hill the top of which (85 m) is the highest point in the province. (For myths of the Tankenberg, see Tanfana.)
The municipality's most important body of water is the river Dinkel.
Sister cities
Losser is twinned with: ::data[format=table]
| :: |
Notable people
- Pi de Bruijn (born 1942 in Losser) a Dutch architect
- Kim Kötter (born 1982 in Losser) a Dutch director, model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Moniek Nijhuis (born 1988 in Overdinkel) a Dutch swimmer, competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
Gallery
File:Martinustoren Losser.jpg|Martin's Tower File:Losser, de Hervormde kerk RM26296 foto1 2013-04-22 17.08.jpg|Reformed church File:Losser, de Sint Martinuskerk foto8 2013-04-22 17.01.jpg|Church: de Sint Martinuskerk File:Overdinkel, Roomskatholieke Kerk.jpg|Overdinkel, Rooms katholieke Kerk
References
References
- tags -->. dataref
- {{Dutch municipality population. dataref
- Stenvert, R. et al. (1998). ''Monumenten in Nederland: Overijssel'', p. 213–215, 240. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. {{ISBN. 90-400-9200-1.
- Buisman, J. (2000). ''Duizend jaar weer, wind en water in de lage landen: 1575–1675'', p. 597. Franeker: Van Wijnen. {{ISBN. 90-5194-136-6.
- (29 October 2024). "Syriac Orthodox Church in the Netherlands celebrates milestones at Mor Ephrem Monastery". Syriac Press.
- "Klooster – Kloostergeschiedenis {{!}} Mor Ephrem". Klooster St. Ephrem De Syrier.
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3371046/ IMDb Database] retrieved 04 October 2019
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::