Bedum
# Bedum

Bedum (Dutch: (listen); Gronings: Beem) is a former municipality and a town in the northeastern Netherlands. Populated by data missing inhabitants in 2021, Bedum is one of the larger of Groningen's several satellite towns. On 1 January 2019 it merged with the municipalities of De Marne, Eemsmond and Winsum to form the new municipality Het Hogeland.

Bedum is the site of three supermarkets, several pubs, and a leaning church tower, dubbed "the leaning tower of Bedum". Footballer Arjen Robben was born in Bedum (23 January 1984).

Bedum has a railway station - Bedum railway station.

## The leaning tower

Bedum's 36-metre tower of the St Walfridus church has been calculated as now leaning at a greater angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. If both towers were the same height, Bedum's would have a greater displacement by 6 cm.

## Former population centres

* Bedum
* Noordwolde
* Onderdendam
* Zuidwolde
* Ellerhuizen
* Westerdijkshorn

## Notable people

* Arjen Robben, professional footballer

## Gallery

* 't Blauw Borgje in winter
* Bridge over Boterdiep
* Air watchtower in Bedum
* Topographic map of Bedum, June 2015
