Sevenum (Dutch: [ˈseːvənʏm] (listen); 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.

Sevenum Zaerem
Village
House in Sevenum
Flag Coat of arms
Sevenum Location in the Netherlands Show map of Netherlands Sevenum Location in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands Show map of Limburg, Netherlands
Coordinates: 51°25′N 6°02′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Limburg
Municipality	Horst aan de Maas
Area [1]
• Total	26.84 km2 (10.36 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	28 m (92 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	6,725
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5975[1]
Dialing code	077

Location

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

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 [3] lists "Zaerum" (Sevenum) and "De Kroeënenberg" (Kronenberg), but it doesn't include "De Pieël" (Evertsoord), considering it to be in the North-Limburgish area.

Gallery

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  The centre of Sevenum. Hear the church bells ringing. (help·info)
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  Kleverlandish

References

External links

• Tourist information for Northern Limburg
• Media related to Sevenum at Wikimedia Commons