Genuine Susteren

This article deals with the municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. For the US TV presenter and journalist, see Greta Van Susteren .

Community of Echt-Susteren

flag	coat of arms
province	Limburg
mayor	Jos Hessels ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality	Really
Area  - land  - water	104.62  km 2 103.11 km 2 1.51 km 2
CBS code	1711
Residents	31,645 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	302 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	51 ° 5 '  N , 5 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 5 ° 52'  E
Important traffic route
prefix	046, 0475
Postcodes	6101-6102, 6104-6105, 6111-6112, 6114, 6116, 6118
Website	Homepage of Echt-Susteren

Echt-Susteren ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a 2003 resulting congregation of the Dutch province of Limburg and had on 31 January 2019 as declared by the CBS 31 645 inhabitants.

places

Echt-Susteren officially, statistically speaking, consists of eleven districts ( Dutch wijken ). The population figures are as of January 1, 2017:

• Susteren (6,065)
• Dieteren (785)
• Heath (1,340)
• Rooster (1,430)
• Real (7,555)
• Maria Hoop (1,270)
• Peij (6,045)
• Slek (985)
• Nieuwstadt (3,255)
• Sint Joost (1,450)
• Koningsbosch (1,665)

Location and economy

Echt and Susteren lie south of Maasbracht on the Maas and the Julianakanal . Both places have a train station on the Eindhoven / Roermond - Maastricht railway line . The A2 motorway between these cities also has exits to Echt and Susteren. The industry is diverse, but, apart from a roof tile factory, consists only of small businesses. Many residents commute to work, including to Sittard-Geleen . The city is located in a very narrow part of the Netherlands - the border with Germany in the east and Belgium in the west are only about 5 km apart in the south. It is the closest border of its kind in the Netherlands.

history

Echt and Susteren were already settled in the Bronze Age. A well was dug up in the real world; in it one found Roman ornaments and utensils. The town of Ehti was mentioned in a document as early as 950; it was partly a crown domain of the German King Otto I.

The Susteren Abbey already stood in Susteren in the 8th century . Real, Nieuwstadt and Susteren got all the in the 13th century town charter . In 1400 "Johann von Salm" sold the towns, castles and lands of Born, Sittard and Susteren for 70,000 guilders to the Duke of Geldern and Jülich. Susteren and the other places were then part of the Duchy of Geldern , sometimes of the Duchy of Jülich . These disputes, as well as competition from other cities and some Meuse floods ( flood disasters ) severely affected the development of these places.

1794 to about 1815 in Susteren how the total was left Rhine , the French period .

From 1850, industrialization began in Echt with a roof tile factory.

During the time of the German occupation, u. a. Edith Stein and Rosa Stein , who had found refuge in the Carmelite Monastery in Echt since 1938 , were arrested by the Gestapo on August 2, 1942 and taken to the Westerbork transit camp .

Susteren and Echt were on the front line from October 1944 to January 1945 during World War II and suffered great damage as a result. As part of Operation Blackcock (from January 14th to 26th, 1945, code name for the conquest of the area between Roermond , Sittard and Heinsberg ), Allied troops advanced. Because of the very cold and humid winter weather, tanks and wheeled vehicles could practically only move on roads; these were often mined by the Wehrmacht during their retreat.

• On January 17, 1945, British troops liberated Susteren and around midnight the small town of Echt.
• On the morning of January 18, they attacked from Echt from Schilberg, the fighting lasted until the afternoon. British Flamethrower Tanks ( Churchill Crocodile ) helped break resistance from the defenders.
• They drove into Koningsbach in the early morning of January 19th.
• Sint Joost was fought hard for a total of 29 hours (in defense of Sint Joost ).

Attractions

• The St. Amelbergakirche in Susteren, a Romanesque style church from the 11th century
• The real market place is called Plats (a word from the local dialect ). Several notable buildings stand around this plaza, including:
  • a gothic church, which was extensively rebuilt in the 19th century
  • the old town hall, which has housed a museum for women since 2007 , about the role of women in family and society then and now
  • several other beautifully restored houses
• Water sports on the Maas are possible in the area (see also: Maasbracht )
• There is a small piece of forest near Koningsbosch where you can go for a walk
• The Trappist Abbey of Sint Joseph “Lilbosch” is located in the Echt district

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Local elections 2018

 %

30th

20th

10

0

29.5

26.4

21.2

12.1

6.9

3.9

no

LS

CDA

PNES

OF

GL

PvdA

Otherwise. ^G

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

+1.5

+0.6

+7.3

-4.8

+3.1

+0.4

-8.3

LS

CDA

PNES

OF

GL

PvdA

Otherwise. ^G

Remarks:

^g M en M Echt-Susteren 0.0% (-4.9%), VVD 0.0% (-3.4%)

The parish council has been formed as follows since the parish was founded:

Political party	Seats
	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018
Lijst Samenwerking	5	6th	6th	7th	7th
CDA	6th	5	6th	6th	6th
Partij Nieuw Echt-Susteren	-	-	1	4th	5
Democrats Echt-Susteren	2	2	3	4th	3
GroenLinks	1	2	2	1	1
PvdA	1	2	1	0	1
M en M Echt-Susteren	-	-	-	1	-
VVD	1	1	1	0	-
General concern a	4th	5	3	-	-
Core issues	1	-	-	-	-
Lijst Meerten / Leefbaar Echt-Susteren	1	-	-	-	-
D66 Echt-Susteren seed Verder	1	-	-	-	-
total	23	23	23	23	23

^a The Algemeen Belang party was merged into the Democrats Echt-Susteren party in 2014.

College of Mayors and Aldermen

The following people belong to the college :

mayor

• Jos Hessels ( CDA ) (in office: July 1, 2011)

Alderman

• Peter Pustjens (CDA)
• Geert Freshness (CDA)
• Peter Ruijten (Partij Nieuw Echt-Susteren)
• Hub Meuwissen (Partij Nieuw Echt-Susteren)
• Marian Bruijsten-van de Berg (Democrats Real-Susteren)

Community Secretary

• Guus van Balkom

Town twinning

There are connections to 35 other cities and municipalities from six countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) due to Nieuwstadt, which was incorporated in 1982, within the framework of the " New Town in Europe Working Group "

Picture gallery

• 

  Susteren, Basilica de Sint Amelbergbasiliek

• 

  Susteren, church

• 

  Nieuwstadt, church

• 

  Dieteren, church

• 

  Spaanshuisken, chapel

• 

  Landscape in Echt-Susteren (photographed from the westernmost point of Germany)

• 

  "Lilbosch" abbey church, monks' choir

• 

  Pey, church: de OLV Onbevlekt Ontvangen-kerk

Daughters and sons of the church

• Jan Schröder (1941–2007), racing cyclist, born in Koningsbosch

Web links

Commons : Echt-Susteren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Susteren in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Wikisource: Real in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official homepage (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
2. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 27, 2018 (Dutch)
3. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, document 1081 , 1853, volume 3, 1301 to 1400, p. [970] 958.
4. ↑ page 8f. of the pdf (page 12 f. of the report; English)
5. ^ Josef Els: Romanesque in and around Roermond. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . Vol. 56, No. 3, 2019, ISSN  0342-1805 , p. 166.
6. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on July 27, 2018 (Dutch)
7. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on July 27, 2018 (Dutch)
8. ↑ College van burgemeester en wethouders Gemeente Echt-Susteren, accessed on July 26, 2018 (Dutch)