Doetinchem
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coat of arms |
province | 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 |
Important traffic route | |
prefix | 0314, 0315 |
Postcodes | 7001-7009, 7011, 7031 |
Website | https://www.doetinchem.nl/ |
The Oude IJssel near Doetinchem |
Doetinchem [ 'dʊtɪŋxʏm ] ( ) 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.
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
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.
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politics
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
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 |
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
- La Libertad , Nicaragua , since 1990
- Pardubice , Czech Republic , since 1992
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Carel Hendrik Verhuell (1764–1845), Dutch-French admiral and diplomat
- Thomas Rosenboom (* 1956), writer
- Wouter Jurgens (* 1971), diplomat
- Michiel Lochtenbergh (* 1981), handball player / trainer
- Arnoud Okken (* 1982), middle distance runner
- Sanne Keizer (* 1985), beach volleyball and volleyball player
- Jasper Heusinkveld (* 1988), soccer goalkeeper
- Alexander Büttner (* 1989), soccer player
- Ted van de Pavert (* 1992), football player
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch)
- Slangenburg Castle website (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
- ↑ Henny Haggeman: Fusie Doetinchem de Oude IJsselstreek in koelkast. In: de Gelderlander . Wegener, February 5, 2013, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ a b Catalogus Monasteriorum OSB Monachorum . Editio XIX. S. Anselmo, Rome 2000, p. 459.
- ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on 7 July 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1990–2004 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on July 7, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ New burgemeester Doetinchem: sportief en geen hekel aan beer. In: Omroep Gelderland. May 10, 2017, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ Coalitieagenda Gemeente Doetinchem, accessed on July 7, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Samenstelling college Gemeente Doetinchem, accessed July 7, 2018 (Dutch)