Tubbergen

Tubbergen (Tweants: Tubbige) is a municipality and town in the province of Overijssel in the eastern Netherlands.

Geography
The following population centres can be found in Tubbergen:

• Albergen

• Fleringen

• Geesteren

• Haarle

• Harbrinkhoek

• Hezingen

• Langeveen

• Mander

• Manderveen

• Mariaparochie

• Reutum

• Tubbergen

• Vasse

Politics
At the 2022 municipal elections, the 19-seat municipal council of Tubbergen was composed as follows.

Society
The municipality has a high birth rate and the lowest divorce rate in the Netherlands. Politically, Tubbergen has one of the largest shares of Christian Democratic Appeal voters at 61.29% in 2018, although this dropped to 29.33% in 2022.

According to a 2009 survey by the Algemeen Dagblad, Tubbergen has the lowest crime rate of all municipalities in the Netherlands. According to the mayor, this is primarily because of a strong sense of community.

Notable people

 * Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (1785 near Fleringen – 1864) a lawyer, Dutch and Prussian civil servant, agriculturalist, botanist, physician and pioneer in the field of homeopathy
 * Herman Schaepman (1844 in Tubbergen – 1903) a Dutch priest, politician and poet
 * Gerard Bruggink (1917 in Tubbergen – 2005) a Dutch pilot of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force

Sport

 * Berny Boxem-Lenferink (1948 in Tubbergen– 2023) a Dutch middle-distance runner, competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics
 * Gerco Schröder (born 1978 in Tubbergen) a Dutch show jumping equestrian, participated at the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Nicole Oude Luttikhuis (born 1997 in Harbrinkhoek) a Dutch volleyball player, participated in the Dutch national women's volleyball team