Hattem

Hattem is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 12,108 in 2017. The municipality includes the hamlet of 't Zand. The call “Hattem” is an average farmyard name. The precise starting place of “Hattem” is but unclear. In popular rationalization exist. Hattem will be the ‘heem’ of a folks who belong to the tribe of Chattuarii. A 2nd beginning should check with the chief of a people underneath the leader Hatto. This fits with the reality that plenty of farmyard names are deduced from humans names. A file relating to Hattem is discovered is dated round 800.

This document is the Codex Laureshamensis, in which the agreement Hattem is noted due to the fact two farmhouses in this vicinity are donated to the Lorsch abbey. Despite this early statement, no church or chapel was constructed in Hattem. In 1176 Hattem have become a parish. The chapel, measuring 17,five by using nine,five meter, was not built at the present day metropolis centre, however at the Gaedsberg. The borders of the parish coincide with the latter borders of the jurisdiction Hattem.