Beuningen is a small village in the municipality of Losser

Losser

-Population centres:*Beuningen*De Lutte*Glane*Losser*Overdinkel-Losser:The oldest known reference to Losser dates from the tenth century. Originally, the village consisted of two separate parts. Both were almost completely destroyed when on 21 September 1665, troops from Münster set fire to...

 in the Dutch province of Overijssel

Overijssel

Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands in the central eastern part of the country. The region has a NUTS classification of NL21. The province's name means "Lands across river IJssel". The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle and the largest city is Enschede...

, with 270 inhabitants in 2004. The village is situated along the river Dinkel

Dinkel

The Dinkel is a river in Germany and the Netherlands, left tributary of the Vecht. Its total length is 93 km, of which 47 km in Germany. The Dinkel originates in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Ahaus and Coesfeld. It flows north to Gronau, crosses the border with the Netherlands , flows...

, in a mainly rural area, approximately one kilometre South of Denekamp

Denekamp

Denekamp is a town in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a part of the region of Twente and the municipality of Dinkelland, and lies about 9 km northeast of Oldenzaal....

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Beuningen used to be part of the Parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 Denekamp, in 1817 the marke Beuningen became part of the municipality of Losser. A Roman Catholic church from 1948 is located in the village. A campsite, soccer field and a forest are located just outside of the village.

Much of the scenes from the fictional village Dinkelo in the regional soap opera Van Jonge Leu en Oale Groond are shot in Beuningen. The writer of the soap, Herman Finkers

Herman Finkers

Hermenegildus "Herman" Felix Victor Maria Finkers is a comedian from the Dutch region of Twente, who is well-known in the Netherlands for his friendly, dry-witted humour and his ambiguous style of storytelling. In his way of telling a story the moral should never be in the way of a good joke or pun...

, lives just a mile from the village.