It is a part of the municipality of Ommen, and lies about 21 km east of Zwolle.

Nieuwebrug has a pub south of the Regge river and an elementary school.

For centuries during the Middle-Ages, the Estates of Overijssel – a diet or feudal parliament, representing the knighthoods of Salland, Vollenhove and Twenthe (and, until 1527, also Drenthe) and the cities of Zwolle, Deventer and Kampen – convened at the still existing pub at Nieuwebrug.

Following a feud between Kampen and Zwolle in 1519, however, the Estates were attacked by citizens of Zwolle, who abducted three noblemen and pillaged the nearby Eerde castle.

[1] In 1556, the States met again at Nieuwebrug to discuss whether to depose King Philip II.