Utrechtse Heuvelrug

( Listen? / I ) Utrecht Ridge is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

The resulting on 1 January 2006 by merging the five former municipalities of Amerongen, Doorn, Driebergen- Rijsenburg, Leersum and Maarn community takes its name from the forest area Utrecht Ridge (German Utrecht Hills ), whose southern half comprises the community.

The municipality came on 1 January 2013 to 48 076 inhabitants ( 364 inhabitants / km ²). Their total area is 132.18 km ². Mayor Frits is Naafs. The new council has 29 members.

Places

The municipality comprises the formerly independent places

  • Driebergen- Rijsenburg ( 18,553 inhabitants)
  • Doorn ( 9997 inhabitants)
  • Leersum ( 7502 inhabitants)
  • Amerongen ( 5516 inhabitants)
  • Maarn ( 4618 inhabitants)
  • Overberg ( 1379 inhabitants)
  • Maarsbergen (1320 inhabitants)

The office is located in Apeldoorn.

Location and economic

Driebergen- Rijsenburg ( also called simply Driebergen ) is located on the railway line and motorway Utrecht - Arnhem. With the western neighboring village of Zeist It shares a small station. Also Maarn has a stop this train route.

Driebergen is on the edge of the forest and Moränengebiets Utrecht Ridge. As in Zeist in Driebergen are many villas and mansions that are now used as training centers, retirement homes, sanatoria or as an office building. Driebergen had an Academy of Social Studies " De Horst" (until 2005), there are some small factories, a conference center near the motorway and a few hotels and pensions.

Doorn is 4 km southeast of Driebergen and 3.5 km south of the Utrecht - Arnhem, situated on the highway Maarn. In the past Rich left from the surroundings here villas or country houses built. These are now mostly as a hospital ( inter alia, the Institute for the Blind Bartiméus ), a conference center, sanatorium or educational institution. In Doorn is a correctional facility ( boarding school ) for incarcerated youth under 18 years. The service sector is the most important for the local economy.

Leersum and Amerongen, east of Apeldoorn, are primarily oriented to tourism.

History

Has Driebergen, south of the town center, some small pleasure palaces from the years 1400 until 1800. Rijsenburg was in the years 1818 to 1931 an independent community whose core ( with a special style church ) is still recognizable. After 1931, the two villages grew together.

Leersum Amerongen and knew of about 1800 to 1960 the cultivation of tobacco, many stately homes of tobacco farmers and many tobacco shed remember. The tobacco was processed in factories in the neighboring village Veenendaal.

Attractions

Huis Doorn

A major attraction of the village is the house Doorn ( Huis Doorn ) Castle, where the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, who lived from 1920 until his death in 1941 in exile. In the castle park a given by himself in order mausoleum stands with his coffin. The castle is still set up as on the day of the death of its last resident, with only minor procedures that make it suitable for museum. Many of his valuables and memorabilia that he had from Germany can bring are exhibited in Huis Doorn.

Castle Amerongen

Amerongen Castle was first mentioned in 1286, 1673 and destroyed by order of Louis XIV by French troops. It was rebuilt in 1680. On 28 November 1918 it abdicated Emperor Wilhelm II and lived here until 1920. It was later the town hall and opened to the public for inspection until 2002. The castle is in poor structural condition and is restored using donations. The castle is surrounded by gardens ( including a rare fruit trees ) surrounded that are open in the spring and summer.

Other points of interest

  • To see National Park Nature Utrecht Ridge
  • The St. Andrew's Church in Amerongen from the 15th century, with original Bätz organ of 1863
  • The cottages at St. Andrew's Church in Amerongen form a village center
  • In Driebergen is the historic outer space Sparrendaal ( 1754). In the years 1964-2005 there was the town hall.
  • In Maarn the recreation area Henschoter sea is.
  • The lock and dam system Amerongen in the Lek
  • The hill Donderberg with a 1818 -built tomb of a local lord, the architect of the monument Jan David Zocher, who also designed the famous Vondelpark in Amsterdam
  • In Driebergen is a park with heather and rose gardens and some parks by Jan David Zocher.

Twinning

Doorn announced in 2009 the existing partnership since 1970 with Hanau- Steinheim.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johannes Cornelis Jacobus Mali, usually in January only Mali ( born September 7, 1828 in Darthuizen in Utrecht, † January 28, 1865 in Munich) was a Dutch- German landscape painter
  • Godert de Ginkell, 1st Earl of Athlone, Baron van Reede ( 1644-1703 ), a Dutch general in the English service
  • Carel Godin de Beaufort ( born April 10, 1934 in Maarsbergen, The Netherlands; † August 2, 1964 in Cologne), Dutch racing driver
  • Jolanda Zwoferink (* 1969 in Leersum ), Dutch organist
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