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{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Scheemda
| image_skyline = Scheemda, straatzicht Torenstraat foto1 2012-09-01 15.26.JPG
| image_caption           = Torenstraat in 2012
| image_flag              = Flag of Scheemda.svg
| image_shield            = Scheemda wapen.svg
| image_map               = Map - NL - Municipality code 0039 (2009).svg
| map_alt                 = Highlighted position of Scheemda in a municipal map of Groningen
| map_caption             = Location in Groningen
| pushpin_map             = Netherlands Groningen
| pushpin_label_position  = 
| pushpin_map_alt         = 
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location of Scheemda in the province of [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]]
|coordinates             = {{coord|53|10|N|6|58|E|region:NL-GR|display=inline,title}}
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = [[Netherlands]]
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]]
|subdivision_type2 = Municipality
|subdivision_name2 = [[Oldambt (municipality)|Oldambt]]
|area_footnotes = (2012)<ref name="statline">{{in lang|nl}} [http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=70904ned&D1=3,15,122-124&D2=17045&D3=l&HD=141221-1742&HDR=T&STB=G1,G2 Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2009-2012], [[Statistics Netherlands]], 2014. Retrieved on 21 December 2014.</ref>
|area_total_ha = 225
|area_land_ha = 220
|area_water_ha = 5
|population_as_of = 2023
|population_footnotes = <ref name="statline"/>
|settlement_type = [[Village]]
|population_total = 5085
|population_density_km2 = 762
|timezone = [[Central European Time|CET]]
|utc_offset = +1
|timezone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
|utc_offset_DST = +2
}}

'''Scheemda''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈsxeːmdaː|-|Nl-Scheemda.oga}}) is a [[village]] with a population of 5,085 in the municipality of [[Oldambt (municipality)|Oldambt]] in the province of [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]] in the [[Netherlands]]. Scheemda was a separate [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] until 2010, when it merged with [[Reiderland]] and [[Winschoten]] to form the municipality of Oldambt.

== History ==
Until 2010, Scheemda was a separate municipality with the population centers [[Heiligerlee]], [[Midwolda]], [[Nieuw-Scheemda]], [[Nieuwolda]], [[Oostwold, Scheemda|Oostwold]], Scheemda, [['t Waar]] and [[Westerlee (Groningen)|Westerlee]]. On 1 January 2010, the municipality merged into [[Oldambt (municipality)|Oldambt]].

== Transportation ==
The [[Scheemda railway station]] was opened in 1868 and has train services to [[Zuidbroek, Groningen|Zuidbroek]] and [[Groningen]] in the west, and [[Winschoten]], [[Bad Nieuweschans]], and [[Leer, Lower Saxony|Leer]] (Germany) in the east.

== Notable people == 
* [[Pieter Smit]] (1963–2018), mayor of Oldambt (2010–2018), lived and died here.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Scheemda, de vrijstaande toren van de Hervormde kerk RM33077 foto4 2012-09-01 15.32.jpg|Scheemda, church tower 
File:Scheemda, straatzicht met ophaalbrug 2012-09-01 15.18.jpg|Scheemda, drawing bridge in the street 
File:Strokartonfabriek de Toekomst II A.jpg|Cardboard factory ''De Toekomst II'' (The Future II)
File:Station Scheemda.jpg|[[Scheemda railway station]]
</gallery>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{commons category-inline|Scheemda}}

{{Dutch municipality Oldambt}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2010]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of Groningen (province)]]
[[Category:Populated places in Groningen (province)]]
[[Category:Oldambt (municipality)]]


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