Zevenaar

N336, N810, N811, N812

( Listen? / I ) zevenaar is a Dutch municipality of the province of Gelderland and had on 1 January 2013, according to the CBS 32 401 inhabitants. Its area is about 58 km ² today.

With the municipality reform of 1 January 2005, the northerly community Angerlo was dissolved on the southern bank of the river IJssel with Angerlo and the villages of Giesbeek and Lathum and the peasantry Bahr and Bingerden (a total of about 5,000 inhabitants) and part of the community Zevenaar.

Districts

( Population figures are approximate, as of 2005)

  • Angerlo ( 1,400 inhabitants)
  • Babberich (2,000 inhabitants)
  • Giesbeek and Lathum ( 2,850 and 750 inhabitants)
  • Oud- Zevenaar and Ooy (a total of about 750 inhabitants)
  • Zevenaar ( town with 22,500 inhabitants )

Location and economic

Zevenaar is not far from the river IJssel and from the Rhine in the region Liemers ten kilometers east of Arnhem, on the motorways ( Autosnelweg ) A12 and A18 as well as the railway lines Arnhem - Doetinchem and Arnhem - Oberhausen.

Zevenaar was formerly the border station with change of locomotive and customs controls. International (fast ) trains stop but not anymore in Zevenaar. A direct rail link to Germany, therefore, does not exist.

The border location has meant that many transport companies and logistics companies in Zevenaar are based. Also, inter alia, Ink and furniture made ​​, and there are a striking number of car companies.

History

In 1382 the Duchy of Cleves snatched the strategically located village Sevenaer Count of funds. The Klever given to the place that never had more than 1000 inhabitants, in 1487 the city Klever law. Sevenaer had a castle, and was surrounded by city walls with four gates. In the 18th century it came to Prussia. The fact that in Prussia was greater religious freedom, were the Catholics, the Protestants had their churches in the neighboring Netherlands to cede, continue to use the worship and hold processions, which was forbidden in the Netherlands at that time. In 1816 came Zevenaar, along with Wehl (now Doetinchem ) and a few other places in the area, to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

It was founded in 1856 connected to the railway network and developed into a typical border town with transport companies, etc. The ink producer Max von Gimborn founded there in 1907, an ink factory that made ​​in the 1950s for large soil pollution. Zevenaar was heavily damaged in World War II. After about 1950, the city developed strong and cheap.

Attractions

  • The Romanesque church (around 900 built ) in the village of Oud- Zevenaar
  • Marinas and water sports areas along the river IJssel at Lathum
  • Protect the annual celebrations and processions in several places in the community
  • The museum stone factory in Ooy
  • The mansion Bingerden in Angerlo
  • Babberich the village, on the German border, with campsites and a manor house Halsaf
  • Rederij Witjes offers cruises on from the place " Tolkamer " on the Rhine and Waal in Nijmegen.

Gallery

Lathum, Church

Giesbeek, the resort

Angerlo, an earlier City Hall

Babberich, Church

Oud- Zevenaar Church ( Sint de Martinuskerk ) seen from the street

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wilhelmina Brinkhoff ( b. 1952 ), cyclist
  • Klaas -Jan Huntelaar ( * 1983), football player at FC Schalke 04
  • Erwin Mulder ( * 1989), goalkeeper at Feyenoord Rotterdam
  • Michél Ursinus (* 1988), keyboard player and singer of the band The Cappuccinos
  • René Ursinus ( born 1985 ), singer of the band The Cappuccinos
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