Dinxperlo

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Dinxperlo
Flag of the place Dinxperlo
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Coat of arms of the village of Dinxperlo
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province Gelderland Gelderland
local community Flag of the municipality of Aalten Aalten
Area
 - land
 - water
4.46  km 2
4.44 km 2
0.02 km 2
Residents 7,230 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Coordinates 51 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 29 ′  E
Important traffic route N317 N819
prefix 0315
Postcodes 5071, 6921, 7084, 7091
Location of Dinxperlo in the municipality of Aalten
Location of Dinxperlo in the municipality of AaltenTemplate: Infobox location in the Netherlands / maintenance / map

Dinxperlo is a place in the east of the Netherlands . It belongs to the municipality of Aalten in the province of Gelderland and lies on the border with the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and limit

Left Heelweg, Dinxperlo; right (walkway) Hellweg in Suderwick
Flag sculpture

Dinxperlo is the direct neighbor of the German village Suderwick , which belongs to the city of Bocholt .

It has 7058 inhabitants and was a quiet farming village in the Bredevoort dominion until 1811 . After that, Dinxperlo was an independent municipality until 2004. With the municipality reform on January 1, 2005, the municipality of Dinxperlo was dissolved and has been part of the municipality of Aalten ever since.

The border between Suderwick and Dinxperlo runs in the middle of the village street, which is called Hellweg in German and Heelweg in Dutch . In the further course of the road towards the Dutch industrial park de Rietstap, the German side of the road is called Brückendeich , in Dutch it is the Anholtse Weg . After the abolition of border controls, the different construction methods of the houses can be used to identify in which place and thus in which country you are currently. Part of the border is marked with a yellow line.

The common European aspect is also emphasized by the fact that Dinxperlo owns the first German-Dutch police station. This is located near the town hall ( Raadhuis ) on the Dutch side. Similar to Eurode near Herzogenrath , it is manned by a Dutch and a German civil servant (from Bocholt ). A German-Dutch retirement home is located directly on the border , the two parts of which are connected by a bridge over the He (e) lweg. The residents' signs with bilingual texts also make the relationship understandable.

The city friendship founded in 1978 with the town of Neuenrade in the Sauerland was converted into a town twinning in 1984 .

Attractions

In the industrial area of ​​Dinxperlo you can visit the smallest church in the Netherlands ( De Rietstap ) on a road that runs along the national border . The notary Theodore Marie Theophille te Rietstap had inherited the property and a larger amount from his uncle with the proviso that a church should be built there. In order to save money, he made the church with a length of 6.40 m and a width of 4.50 m and a five-meter "high" tower turn out to be very small. Art exhibitions can be seen there at times.

One attraction of Dinxperlos is the market every Friday afternoon and evening, which is particularly popular with Bocholtern and short vacationers from the Ruhr area .

You can find out more about the history of the border region and smuggling in the Grenzlandmuseum on the market square. It is run by volunteers from a working group of the home association.

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politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Until the municipality was dissolved, the following distribution of seats had been made since 1990:

Political party Seats
1990 1994 1998 2002
CDA 7th 6th 6th 6th
Community concerns 3 5 5 4th
PvdA 3 2 2 2
VVD 0 - - 1
total 13 13 13 13

Web links

Commons : Dinxperlo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 1, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Borderline experiences in Dinxperlo
  3. Ulrike Hofsähs: German-Dutch old people's home as a model: Seniors without borders wdr.de, 25 August 2008
  4. In Neêrlands smallest kapel is nog nooit een kerkdienst gehouden (Dutch), accessed on March 18, 2017.
  5. Ontstaansgeschiedenis van Landgoed "De Rietstap" (Dutch), accessed on 18 March 2017th
  6. Exhibition program (German), accessed on January 27, 2018.
  7. Grenzlandmuseum Dinxperlo (German), accessed on January 27, 2018
  8. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1990–2002 , accessed on July 1, 2018 (Dutch)