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Sappemeer owes its origins to large-scale peat extraction from the 17th century onwards.

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On Noorderstraat is a sculpture of two peat diggers standing on an elevation. This artwork was made by Hans Mes in 1987, to commemorate the filling up of the last part of the old Winschoterdiep.

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