Neder-Betuwe
Neder and Nijmegen ( listen? / I ) is a municipality of the province of Gelderland. It has a total area of 68.11 km ² and counted on 1 January 2013, according to the CBS 22,593 inhabitants.
Places
In the town the following villages are located more than 1000 inhabitants ( order: decreasing size):
- Opheusden (where the municipality is located, and from where you can go cycling on the river dikes )
- Kesteren
- Dodewaard
- Ochten
- Echteld ( with a church from the 14th century )
- IJzendoorn
In addition still some small villages.
Location and economic
The community forms the western part of the Betuwe, that landscape between the Rhine and Waal, which owes its name to the Batavians. North of the village, across the Rhine, are Rhenen and Wageningen.
Through the community run the railroad Tiel - Arnhem (with retail stations in Kesteren, Dodewaard and Opheusden ) and the A15 motorway Rotterdam-Tiel-Arnheim/Nimwegen.
In the village Dodewaard is switched off in 1997 Dodewaard nuclear power plant. In addition, there are several small industrial and commercial enterprises (including a slaughterhouse ), and especially in Opheusden many nurseries, much of fruit ( apples, pears and cherries ) and agriculture.
IJzendoorn has an alternate port for river navigation.
History
The area was already inhabited in the Neolithic period of carriers of the Vlaardingen culture. Later, there were settlements of the Romans and the allied Batavians.
- During the Roman past of the place, see also the main article Carvo.
From the 3rd to the 10th century, the area was uninhabited. After that, people settled back in the 14th century made it possible to better damming of rivers a significant increase in population.
The Reformation went here after Dutch terms rather sluggish to himself. It was not until around 1620 closed the last monastery its doors. The village Opheusden applies now but as extremely strict Calvinist.
From 1672 to 1674, the area was occupied by the French, which by law had devastating consequences. The 18th century initially brought an improvement in the cultivation of tobacco and better farming methods, but then came a period of many river floods, which brought many to their belongings or even life.
Between 1870 and 1920 there was work in stone factories; as these fisheries had become impossible, however, went bankrupt and been made by the water pollution in the Rhine, examined the men of the Neder - Betuwe work abroad, including in the Ruhr.
The Second World War brought much suffering and devastation, especially from September 1944, when the Betuwe one, sometimes set under water, no man's land between the warring parties was.
After the liberation of the villages were, among others thanks to the Marshall aid, rebuilt. The fact that the rivers are still a danger to the people of the Betuwe, was in 1995 when the dike threatened to break at Ochten, and had to be temporarily evacuated all cities. An improvement of the levees was then carried out with priority.