Brummen

( Listen? / I ) hum is a municipality of the province of Gelderland. On January 1, 2013, it had 21,242 inhabitants. The municipality consists of the villages hum (about 8500 inhabitants, the municipal offices ), Eerbeek ( about 10,100 inhabitants) and reverb, as well as some smaller towns.

Location and economic

The village Eerbeek, on the edge of the Veluwe, is a center of the paper industry. It attracts with its wooded location, many tourists ( some great campsites).

Hum is located six kilometers south of Zutphen and has a small railway station on the railway line Zutphen - Arnhem. The industry is buzzing with smaller operations of many kinds buzzing is a car ferry across the river IJssel, which makes the crossing to Bronkhorst possible.

Between hum and the farming village hall there is in the former castle Castel Sant'Angelo, a conference center with golf course.

History

The village hum, whose name originally brimnum, " located at the hem ( the forest ) settlement " means (compare English brim, " edge " and Dutch berm, " Wayside " ), has already been mentioned in a document of 800. Buzzing is an old village church.

Hall has a very old church ( featured frescoes inside ), which originated in the Middle Ages on the ruins of an earlier temple, which was dedicated to St. Liudger.

Eerbeek originated as a mill settlement. Already in the late Middle Ages enabled the clear waters of the streams of the Veluwe, along with their current speed the development of water mills for laundries and the manufacture of paper. Between about 1850 and 1950 was the village, which is situated on a, since this last year only navigable for canoes, etc., channel between Apeldoorn and Dieren, accessible for inland navigation.