Echt-Susteren

Echt-Susteren ( listen? / I ) is a 2003 Dutch municipality created the province of Limburg and was on 1 January 2013 as declared by the CBS 32 084 inhabitants. It belongs to the twinning "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neustadt in Europe".

Places

Echt-Susteren is officially out of ten " seeds " ( seeds, districts ). The population figures are at Peij from January 1, 2007, otherwise 1 Jan. 2008:

Former small towns: Real, 7757 inhabitants, the municipal offices
Susteren, 7384 inhabitants
Nieuwstadt, 3345 inhabitants

Peij, 4980 inhabitants, much development area, consisting of: Peij village 2450 Population
Schilberg 1780 inhabitants
Outdoor area, with 760 inhabitants, Trappist

Slek, 940 inhabitants
Dieteren, 828 inhabitants

Location and economic

Real Susteren and lie south of Maasbracht on the Maas and the Juliana. Both places have a station on the railway line Eindhoven / Maastricht Roermond. The A2 motorway between these cities has exits to real and Susteren. The industry is diverse, but there is, apart from a tile factory, only small businesses. Many residents commute to work, among other things, to Sittard -Geleen. The city is located on a very narrow point of the Netherlands - the border with Germany to the east and Belgium to the west are in the south just 5 km apart. It is the closest border leadership of its kind in the Netherlands.

History

Real Susteren and were already settled in the Bronze Age. In real a well was dug; it was found Roman ornamental rates and commodities. The town EHTI was already mentioned in 950; it was partly a royal domain of the German king Otto I

In Susteren was the Abbey Susteren early as the 8th century. Real, Nieuwstadt and Susteren all got in the 13th century, the city law. The places were once part of the duchy of Geldern, times of the Duchy of Jülich. These disputes and competition from other cities and some Meuse floods ( floods ) affected the development of these places strong.

1794 to about 1815 was in Susteren as the entire left Rhine, the French period.

As of 1850, in real- industrialization with a tile factory.

During the period of German occupation were, inter alia, Edith Stein and Rosa Stein, who had found refuge in a Carmelite convent Real, arrested on 2 August 1942 by the Gestapo and taken to the Westerbork transit camp.

Susteren and Real were in World War II from October 1944 to January 1945 on the front line and suffered as much damage. As part of the operation Blackcock ( from 14 to January 26, 1945, code name for the conquest of the territory roughly between Roermond, Sittard and Heinberg ) were advancing Allied troops. Because of the very cold and wet winter weather to armored and wheeled vehicles could virtually move only on roads; these were mined by the Wehrmacht during their return often.

On January 17, British troops liberated Susteren and midnight also real.
On the morning of the 18th they attacked from real Schilberg, the fighting continued until the afternoon. British flamethrower tank (Churchill Crocodile ) helped to break the resistance of the defenders.
In the early 19th she drove into Koning Bach.
To Sint Joost was fought 29 hours hard ( details here).

Attractions

The St. Amelbergakirche in Susteren, a church in Romanesque style from the 11th century.
The marketplace in real means Plats ( a word derived from the local dialect ). To this Plats are several notable buildings, including: a Gothic church, which was rebuilt in the 19th century but engagingly;
The old Town Hall, which since 2007 a museum for the woman on the role of women in family and society, past and present, houses;
Several other beautifully restored houses.

Twinning

Netherlands Germany Austria Hungary Poland Slovakia Czech Republic made to 36 other cities and municipalities from seven countries ( Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands ) compounds within the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neustadt in Europe "

Gallery

Susteren, other church

Nieuwstadt, Church

Dieteren, Church

Spaanshuisken, Chapel

Landscape in Echt-Susteren, photographed from German side ( the most western point of Germany )

Sons and daughters of the community

Jan Schroeder, (1941-2007), a cyclist, born in Koningsbosch

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