Gelderland

Topography of Gelderland

Gelderland ( German money ) is a province in the eastern center of the Netherlands, with its capital is Arnhem ( Arnhem German ).

Other large cities are Nijmegen and Apeldoorn, Ede smaller cities, Zutphen, Harderwijk, Tiel and Doetinchem. The province's name is derived from the historical duchy of Guelders. The eponymous city funds itself is located in what is now North Rhine -Westphalia, ie outside the modern Netherlands.

Geography

Gelderland can be roughly divided into three parts of the landscape:

• In the north of the Veluwe with the largest forest area in the Netherlands - the name is usually interpreted as sallow ( infertile ) Aue, because agriculture earned very little income here.
• (as seen from Holland: " Rear Corner " ) in the southeastern Achterhoek a predominantly Farming and more recently tourist region.
• In the south the Betuwe, known by its fruit and vegetable production. The name, as " Batavians - Aue " interpreted, possibly comes from the Batavians, who in the 1st century were settled here.

More Regions in Gelderland are the Rijk van Nijmegen, Gelderland Liemers and Vallei ( = " level "), a relatively low-lying area around Barneveld, which is known by the chicken farming.

Gelderland is traversed in the southern province area in east-west direction from the northern arm of the Rhine, the Lower Rhine and in the lower reaches of the Lek and the southern branch of the Rhine, the Waal. In parallel to the Waal flows the Meuse, which forms the border with the province of North Brabant. South of Arnhem IJssel branches off from the Lower Rhine, which flows through the province in south-north direction to open in Kampen in the IJsselmeer.

The dialects of Gelderland one shares an eastern and northern money -driven and südgeldrisch. The former belong to the Lower Saxony. The südgeldrischen dialects, however, have - as well as the standard Dutch - from the Lower Franconian developed. Both Low Saxon and Low Franconian, belongs to the Low German, whose dialects are spoken in Northern Germany.

History

Guelders was a region in the late 11th century and later a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire. It also included parts of the present province of Limburg in the German district of Kleve, along with the city funds, which was also the seat of the Duke. The modern province comprises about three quarters of this Duchy funds.

1543 Gelderland were definitively by the Treaty of Venlo at the end of the money Rischen War of Succession, one of the seventeen provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands. According to the Netherlands Gelderland 1568 revolution belonged to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces. Within this Republic of the Duchy of Gelderland had a special position, because the remaining provinces were only counties or glories. Therefore, it ranked even before officially the richest and most populous province, the county of Holland.

Management

The provincial administration has its headquarters in Arnhem. There, the Huis Provincie located in a building from 1954; the previous building had been destroyed during the war. Commissioner of the Queen since 2005 Clemens Cornielje of the right-wing liberal VVD. He stands in front of a college of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, right-wing liberals and social liberals.

In the provincial election on March 2, 2011, the parties obtained the following voting rights: VVD 19.1%, PvdA 16.6%, 16.2%, CDA, PVV 10.4%, SP 9.7%, 8.0% D66, Groen links 6.2%, 4.9% CU, SGP 4.6%, 2.0% 50PLUS, PvdD 1.8%, other 2.8%. On 8 November 2011, a member has (now Groep Wullink ) of the PVV leave his group.

On January 1, 2005, there were in the province of Gelderland to an administrative reform, in which the number of municipalities from 71 dropped to 56. With Berkel country ( from the dissolved municipalities Borculo, Eibergen, Neede and Ruurlo ) Bronckhorst ( Hengelo, Hummelo / Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden, Zelhem ) Montferland ( Bergh and Didam ) and Oude IJsselstreek ( Gendringen and wiping ) incurred while four new communities. Were also dissolved Angerlo ( to Zevenaar ) Dinxperlo ( to Aalten ), Gorssel ( to Lochem ), Lichtenvoorde ( to Groenlo, after referendum renamed Groenlo - Lichtenvoorde, now Oost Gelre ), Warnsveld ( to Zutphen ) and Wehl ( to Doetinchem ).

Communities

( Inhabitants on 1 January 2013)

• Aalten ( 27,090 )
• Apeldoorn ( 157 282 )
• Arnhem ( 149 803 )
• Barneveld ( 53 763 )
• Berkel land ( 44,780 )
• Beuningen ( 25 318 )
• Bronckhorst ( 37 207 )
• Hum ( 21,242 )
• Buren ( 25 947 )
• Culemborg ( 27,685 )
• Doesburg ( 11,530 )
• Doetinchem ( 56 397 )
• Druten ( 18 202 )
• Duiven ( 25,544 )
• Ede ( 109 810 )
• Elburg ( 22,515 )
• Epe ( 32 379 )
• Ermelo ( 26.132 )
• Geldermalsen ( 26 238 )
• Groesbeek ( 18,981 )
• Harderwijk ( 45,650 )
• Hattem ( 11,774 )
• Flock ( 18,392 )
• Heumen ( 16,451 )
• Lingewaal ( 11,006 )
• Lingewaard ( 45 818 )
• Lochem ( 33 304 )
• Maasdriel ( 24,092 )

• Millinge ( 5920 )
• Montferland ( 34,825 )
• Neder and Nijmegen ( 22,593 )
• Neerijnen ( 12,021 )
• Nijkerk ( 40,349 )
• Nijmegen ( 166 369 )
• Nunspeet ( 26 631 )
• Oldebroek ( 22,772 )
• Oost Gelre ( 29 874 )
• Oude IJsselstreek ( 39 775 )
• Overbetuwe ( 46 527 )
• Putten ( 23 966 )
• Renkum ( 31 574 )
• Rheden ( 43 665 )
• Rijnwaarden ( 10,968 )
• Rozendaal (1503 )
• Scherpenzeel ( 9407 )
• Tiel ( 41 745 )
• Ubbergen ( 9508 )
• Voorst ( 23 719 )
• Wageningen ( 37 432 )
• West Maas en Waal ( 18,401 )
• Westervoort ( 15,196 )
• Wijchen ( 41,005 )
• Winterswijk ( 28,963 )
• Zaltbommel ( 26,946 )
• Zevenaar ( 32 401 )
• Zutphen ( 47 221 )

For a complete list of former municipalities in Gelderland found under the former municipalities in the province of Gelderland list.

Economy

In 2006, was the regional gross domestic product per capita, expressed in purchasing power standards, at 109.4 % of the average of the EU27.