Doetinchem

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Doetinchem municipality
Flag of the municipality of Doetinchem
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Doetinchem
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province Gelderland Gelderland
mayor Mark Boumans ( VVD )
Seat of the municipality Doetinchem
Area
 - land
 - water 		79.66  km 2
79.06 km 2
0.6 km 2
CBS code 0222
Residents 57,532 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 722 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 51 ° 58 ′  N , 6 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′  N , 6 ° 17 ′  E
Important traffic route A18 N315 N316 N317 N813
prefix 0314, 0315
Postcodes 7001-7009, 7011, 7031
Website https://www.doetinchem.nl/
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The Oude IJssel near Doetinchem
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Doetinchem [ 'dʊtɪŋxʏm ] ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Achterhoek in the Dutch province of Gelderland . Together with Winterswijk , it is one of the largest places in the Achterhoek, but is more central and houses the regional archive, among other things. Audio file / audio sample

In the course of a community reform on January 1, 2005, the community Wehl became part of the community Doetinchem. In April 2012, the mayors of Doetinchem and Oude IJsselstreek announced that a merger of the two municipalities would be investigated. However, the local council decided in February 2013 to hold the local elections in 2014 - unlike planned - after considering postponing the elections to 2015 in order to seek a merger at the beginning of 2016.

places

The municipality of Doetinchem consists of the eponymous city of Doetinchem, the villages Gaanderen and Wehl and the hamlets of IJzenvoorde, Langerak, Wijnbergen and Nieuw-Wehl. Doetinchem is only around 20 km from Emmerich and 40 km from Bocholt , near the German border.

location

Doetinchem is the most important city of the Gelderse Achterhoek or "Graafschap". Doetinchem is located 25 km east of Arnhem on the Oude IJssel .

A motorway and the Winterswijk – Zevenaar railway (Doetinchem has two stations) connect it with Arnhem.

economy

Doetinchem is a regional supply center (many shops, offices, schools, a hospital, old people's homes, etc.) and also a medium-sized industrial city. In the district of Gaanderen, where iron was extracted and processed from ferrous sand and clay as early as the 18th century, and in Doetinchem itself there are factories that produce ovens, stoves and other household appliances, as well as some printing and magazine publishers.

history

Erfgoedcentrum Achterhoek en Liemers , the regional archive , is located in Doetinchem in the old school building 't Brewinc. Here is the reading room of this information center.

The city, which was also called Dotecom or Deutekom in the 17th century , was first mentioned in a document in 838. Around 1100 it was walled.

Graf Otto II. Funds gave the place that is located on a bridge over the Oude IJssel, 1236 the city law . The city has always suffered a lot in wars. In the Eighty Years War and in 1672 Doetinchem was badly hit and partially devastated.

In 1580 two thirds of the population died from a plague epidemic. During the Second World War , too , the city suffered such severe damage from bombing that the entire old town was lost for good. Only the Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche was rebuilt after the war.

Attractions

There are a few windmills in the city. One of them houses the VVV (Vereniging voor Vreemdelingenverkeer: Tourist Association).

Slangenburg Castle is seven kilometers east of Doetinchem, in the middle of a forest . It was built in the late Middle Ages and renovated in the Baroque style in the 17th century . Since it belonged to a German in 1945, it was confiscated as enemy property by the Dutch government after the liberation by the Allies. It was sold to the Benedictine Order in 1945 . Monks of the Sint-Paulusabdij in Oosterhout founded a monastery in Slangenburg Castle in 1945. As the monastic community grew, they built the new St. Willibrord monastery two kilometers southeast in the early 1950s . In 1954 it was elevated to the status of an abbey . The Sint-Willibrordsabdij is the youngest of the Dutch Benedictine abbeys.

Since then, the castle has served as accommodation for those who visit the monks for a retreat (period of reflection), to study or for other reasons. Even Protestants are welcome there. The surrounding forest is freely accessible.

photos

  • Doetinchem, church (de Sint Catharinakerk), seen from the street

  • Doetinchem, castle: kasteel Slangenburg

  • Doetinchem, mill: de Benninkmolen

  • Doetinchem, mill: de Walmolen

  • Doetinchem, Villa Ruimzicht, formerly a boarding school, now a hotel and restaurant

  • Doetinchem, modern art: de D-toren

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Local elections 2018
 %
30th
20th
10
0
20.4
12.1
11.9
11.5
10.8
8.6
7.8
4.9
4.7
7.3
GBD
CU / SGP
LBD
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.7
-4.4
-0.3
-3.3
+0.9
+1.4
+0.4
+0.6
+4.7
+0.7
GBD
CU / SGP
LBD
Otherwise.

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1990:

Political party Seats
1990 1994 1998 2002 2004 a 2010 2014 2018
CDA 10 8th 7th 9 8th 7th 7th 7th
PvdA 9 7th 9 8th 9 9 5 4th
VVD 3 4th 7th 6th 6th 5 4th 4th
SP - - - - - 3 5 4th
D66 3 4th 1 1 2 2 3 4th
GroenLinks 2 3 4th 4th 5 4th 2 3
Municipality concerns Doetinchem - - - - - - 2 2
ChristenUnie / SGP - - - 1 1 1 1 1
Lokaal Belang Doetinchem - - - - - - - 1
Partij voor Lokaal Maatwerk - - - - - - 2 1
Partij voor Men en Milieu - - - - - - - 0
Blanco lijst 11 - - - - - - - 0
RPF / SGP 0 1 1 - - - - -
total 27 27 29 29 31 31 31 31
a Due to the incorporation of Wehl into Doetinchem on January 1, 2005, the municipal council elections took place in 2004.

mayor

Mark Boumans ( VVD ) has been the acting mayor of the municipality since May 18, 2017 .

College of Mayors and Aldermen

The College is for the period until 2022 of members of the parties CDA , VVD , D66 , GroenLinks and ChristenUnie / SGP . They were appointed during a council meeting on May 17, 2018. The following people belong to the college and are responsible in the following areas:

Surname Political party Department
Ingrid Lambregts CDA Spatial planning and housing, inner city, village, district and quarter development, (medium) large city council, building and housing supervision, water, nature and landscape
Rens Steintjes CDA Transport, administrative building contractor BUHA , facilities, sports
Maureen Sluiter VVD economic affairs, education, youth welfare, youth, culture, history, administrative builder Buurtplein
Jorik Huizinga D66 Work and income, participation law, poverty policy, public health, asylum policy, animal welfare, service and management
Frans Langeveld GroenLinks Social welfare law, social care, sustainability, diversity, the environment and the Achterhoek service
Henk Bulten ChristenUnie / SGP Finance, commercial, public utilities, circular economy, recreation, and tourism

The office of community secretary is carried out by Theo Kemper.

Sports

Doetinchem has a professional football club ( De Graafschap ), popularly known as “De Superboeren” (Superboeren), whose stadium “De Vijverberg” has a capacity of 12,600. In the 2008/2009 season they rose after two years of membership from the Eredivisie in the second division. In 2010, however, the rise was successful.

Orion Doetinchem's volleyball men play in the Dutch premier league.

Town twinning

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Doetinchem  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Doetinchem in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Henny Haggeman: Fusie Doetinchem de Oude IJsselstreek in koelkast. In: de Gelderlander . Wegener, February 5, 2013, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch).
  3. ↑ a b Catalogus Monasteriorum OSB Monachorum . Editio XIX. S. Anselmo, Rome 2000, p. 459.
  4. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on 7 July 2018 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1990–2004 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on July 7, 2018 (Dutch)
  6. ↑ New burgemeester Doetinchem: sportief en geen hekel aan beer. In: Omroep Gelderland. May 10, 2017, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Coalitieagenda Gemeente Doetinchem, accessed on July 7, 2018 (Dutch)
  8. ↑ Samenstelling college Gemeente Doetinchem, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch)