Vaassen: Epe, Gelderland, Lorsch, Apeldoorn, Zwolle, Maarten van Rossum, Low German, Veluwe, Hoogeveen - Tapa blanda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vaassen is one of four villages in the Dutch municipality Epe. Vaassen is situated between Apeldoorn and Zwolle, on the eastern edge of the Veluwe in the province of Gelderland and has 12,719 inhabitants (2008). Vaassen was an independent municipality up to 1 January 1818, when it merged with Epe. The town is mentioned for the first time in a certificate from the Codex Laureshamnensis of the monastery of Lorschin the year 891 or 892, when someone called Brunhilde" gave a farmhouse and the church to Lorsch. The name Vaassen derives from "Fasna", an old word for a specific rough type of grass."