Sevenum

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Sevenum
Zaerem  (Limburgish)
City and former municipality
Flag of Sevenum
Coat of arms of Sevenum
Coordinates: 51°25′N 6°02′E / 51.417°N 6.033°E / 51.417; 6.033
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceLimburg
MunicipalityHorst aan de Maas
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
The centre of Sevenum. audio speaker iconHear the church bells ringing. 

Sevenum (Dutch: [ˈseːvənʏm] (audio speaker iconlisten); Limburgish: Zaerem) is a town in the province of Limburg in the southeastern Netherlands. Until 2010, it was also the name of the municipality comprising the towns of Sevenum, Kronenberg and Evertsoord. Amusement park Toverland is located in sevenum.

Location[edit]

Sevenum's neighbour towns are (clockwise, starting from East): Blerick, Venlo, Maasbree, Kronenberg, Grubbenvorst, Hegelsom, Horst, Grubbenvorst.

Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277 (Middenpeelweg), and the railroad track Eindhoven-Venlo; Evertsoord lies on the edge of the Peel, a former peatland.

Dialect[edit]

Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerums", is transitional between Limburgish, North-Limburgish (see Low Rhenish), and Brabantian, which all have tentative borders within a larger dialect continuum. In the diagram "Kleverlandish" on this page, Sevenum is situated near the bottom-left corner of the blue area, which is the intersection of the horizontal "ich/ik" isogloss (the Uerdingen line) with the vertical "kalt/koud" isogloss.

The overview of town names in Limburgish at Streektaal.net [1] lists "Zaerum" (Sevenum) and "De Kroeënenberg" (Kronenberg), but it doesn't include "De Pieël" (Evertsoord), considering it to be in the North-Limburgish area.

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Coordinates: 51°25′N 6°02′E / 51.417°N 6.033°E / 51.417; 6.033