Ede (Netherlands)
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coat of arms |
province | Gelderland |
mayor | René Verhulst ( CDA ) |
Seat of the municipality | Ede |
Area - land - water |
318.62 km 2 318.22 km 2 0.4 km 2 |
CBS code | 0228 |
Residents | 115,894 (Jan 31, 2019) |
Population density | 364 inhabitants / km 2 |
Coordinates | 52 ° 2 ′ N , 5 ° 39 ′ E |
Important traffic route | |
prefix | 026, 0318, 0342 |
Postcodes | 6711-6718, 6721, 6731-6733, 6741, 6744-6745, 6877, 7351-7352 |
Website | Homepage of Ede |
Ede, church: de Oude Kerk |
Ede [ ˈedɘ ] ( ) is a town and municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland . On January 31, 2019, the community had 115,894 inhabitants, the city itself only about 72,000. The total area is 318.62 km², making it the fifth largest municipality in the Netherlands after Het Hogeland , Noordoostpolder , Midden-Drenthe and Apeldoorn . In addition to Ede itself, there are also the villages of Bennekom, Deelen , Ederveen, Harskamp, De Klomp, Lunteren, Otterlo , Wekerom and parts of Hoenderloo .
Location and economy
Ede is located in the southwest of the Veluwe forest area , on the A12 motorway and the Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem railway line , another motorway ( A30 with the Maanderbroek Knooppunt ) and the secondary railway line to Barneveld . Good roads lead to Apeldoorn , the southern neighbor Wageningen , and west to Veenendaal. The synthetic fiber industry (AKU - Akzo), which was important until 2002, has left Ede. In their place, small businesses and more tourism should create new jobs. The most important for the economy of Edes are:
- of tourism (because of Heath - "Ginkelse Heide", forest, etc.); the nature park " Hoge Veluwe " is mostly in the area of Ede
- the agriculture (to the west of the church, "Gelderse Vallei" with chicken farming)
- the service sector ( retirement homes and other healing institutes, conference centers)
- the military (there are several barracks and military training areas in the municipality).
Commuters who work in Utrecht and Arnhem also live in Ede and Bennekom.
history
The area Edes provided the archaeologists many finds, including from mounds of Neolithic and Bronze Age . Whether around 30,000 years BC BC the Neanderthals lived here is not yet clear. Later, however, Germanic tribes lived in what is now Ede for a long time , including the Chamaven around 400 AD . In the early Middle Ages, Ede and Bennekom emerged as small farming villages. Ede is mentioned in donation documents in 1216, Lunteren in 1300. After the Reformation the villages soon became Protestant, but in Lunteren the Catholics were able to hold their own for a century. An ancient sandy trade route, also known as the “Hessenweg”, connected the trade fair cities of Cologne and Frankfurt with Utrecht and ran from Arnhem via Ede to Amersfoort . These so-called Itinerare were very popular with travelers and merchants. The Hessian wagoners enjoyed their good reputation far beyond the German border. Growth only started in 1840 when the Utrecht - Arnhem railway line and the old "Reichsweg Arnheim - Utrecht" were opened, then shortly before the Second World War the Arnhem - Utrecht motorway (also known as Hazepad ) and several country roads were added. In 1902 the Ede - Barneveld railway was added. This enabled tourism to the nearby Veluwe and the establishment of sanatoriums, etc. The synthetic fiber factory of the Akzo Nobel group (formerly AKU) was located here from around 1920–2002. From around 1880 Ede and Harskamp became important garrison locations for the Dutch army .
politics
mayor
René Verhulst ( CDA ) has been the acting mayor of the municipality since September 8, 2017 .
College of Mayors and Aldermen
The College is for the period 2018 to 2022 of members of the coalition parties CDA , ChristenUnie , Gemeentebelangen, GroenLinks and VVD . The following people belong to the college and are responsible in the following areas:
Surname | Political party | Department |
---|---|---|
Willemien Vreugdenhil | CDA | Economy, lively city center, program for the rural surroundings, agricultural and veterinary matters / animal welfare, environmental law (coordinating councilors), nature and landscape as well as biodiversity, basic problems, welfare and district approach |
Leon Meijer | ChristenUnie | Youth and aid, education as well as early and pre-school education, social infrastructure, public health care, safe home, addiction support, public and spiritual health care, Ede-Wageningen knowledge axis, Essen, WFC, administration of the FoodValley region , finance, aviation |
Peter de Pater | Gemeente concerns | Sports, recreation and tourism, traffic and transport, spatial planning, railway zone, facility management |
Lex Hoefsloot | GroenLinks | Sustainability, environment and climate, BOR, housing, real estate, social assistance law and law for extraordinary treatment costs in the health care system, discrimination and emancipation as well as integration, social inclusion, communication, public affairs, citizen participation |
Hester Veltman-Kamp | VVD | Participation Act, work and income, manpower, labor market region FoodValley, Euregio, coordinating councilors for quality of life, culture, personnel and organization, maintenance of administrative law, digitization and private life |
The office of community secretary is carried out by Jeroen van Delden.
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1982:
Political party | Seats | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | |
SGP | 5 | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th | 7th | 7th |
ChristenUnie | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6th | 6th | 6th | 6th |
CDA | 12 | 11 | 11 | 8th | 8th | 10 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 6th |
Gemeente concerns | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 4th | 4th | 5 | 5 |
VVD | 9 | 7th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 5 | 5 | 6th | 4th | 4th |
GroenLinks | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4th |
Progressive Ede | 2 | 1 | - | |||||||
D66 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 3 |
Burger issues | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
PvdA | 5 | 7th | 5 | 4th | 5 | 4th | 6th | 4th | 3 | 1 |
Democratic Kiezers Ede | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
65 plus party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
Reformed earth Beginsel Partij | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
Even weight | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
Edese Jaap | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - |
Ede Transparant | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - |
Lijst de Haan | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - |
Liberaal Ede | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Leefbaar Ede | ||||||||||
REde'98 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
RPF | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | - | - | - | - | - |
GPV | ||||||||||
SP | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Right People's Party | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
total | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
Attractions
- Ede and Bennekom both have a late medieval church in the center, the Oude Kerk and the Alexanderkerk.
- There is a tile museum in Otterlo and a local museum with archaeological finds in Ede.
- A small part of the barracks is open to the public as a military museum . a. the Museum of the Dutch Telecommunications Service (" Liaison Service ").
- Otterlo is also home to the Kröller-Müller Museum , which houses the second largest Vincent van Gogh collection in the world. The museum goes back to the German-born art collector Helene Kröller-Müller .
Parks
- The most important nature park is " Hoge Veluwe " with the Kröller-Müller Museum near Otterlo.
- Other important natural areas of the Veluwe on the Ede area, which are suitable for hiking and cycling tours, are:
- Ginkelse Heide (partly military area: closed for target practice)
- Planken-Wambuis
- Driesprong
- Deelerwoud
photos
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Jaco de Bakker (1939–2012), computer scientist
- Martien Beenen (* 1933), jazz musician
- Mark Harbers (* 1969), politician
- Eva Hovenkamp (* 1996), sprinter
- Ruben Knab (* 1988), rower, runner-up in the eighth world championship
- Jaap van Lagen (* 1976), racing driver
- Marianne Thieme (* 1972), animal rights activist, publicist and politician
- Hennie Top (* 1956), racing cyclist and cycling trainer
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch, English)
- De Hoge Veluwe National Park website (Dutch, German, Chinese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
- ^ René Verhulst nieuwe burgemeester van Ede. In: Omroep Gelderland. June 7, 2017, accessed July 9, 2018 (Dutch).
- ^ College van burgemeester en wethouders Gemeente Ede, accessed on July 9, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on July 9, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on July 9, 2018 (Dutch)