Editing Assen (section)

===Coat of arms===
The coat of arms is directly borrowed from the seal of the abbey. It is just like the coat of arms of the province of [[Drenthe]] - in both cases [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Mary]] with child - but Jesus switches to the other knee. The history of the city is connected with the provincial governing board: around 1600, the abbey property was secularised. Marienkamp no longer existed, but the buildings did. Because of the central position of Assen and the fact that the government from what was then called ''de Landschap [[Drenthe]]'' (the Landscape [[Drenthe]]) was searching for a location for the government and civil servants, Assen became the seat for, and thus practically also the capital of [[Drenthe]].