Groenlo

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Groenlo
Flag of the place Groenlo
flag 		Coat of arms of the village of Groenlo
coat of arms
province Gelderland Gelderland
local community Flag of the municipality of Oost Gelre Oost Gelre
Area
 - land
 - water 		27.52  km 2
27.25 km 2
0.27 km 2
Residents 9,790 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Coordinates 52 ° 3 '  N , 6 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '  N , 6 ° 37'  E
Important traffic route N18 N319
prefix 0544
Postcodes 4884, 6002, 6922, 7101, 7104, 7131, 7137, 7141
Website Homepage of Groenlo
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Groenlo ( listen ? / I ), in the local dialect: Grol or Grolle , is a small town in the Dutch municipality of Oost Gelre in the province of Gelderland . In 2017 it had 9,790 inhabitants. Audio file / audio sample

Location and economy

Groenlo is located in the northeast of the province, in the Achterhoek region , not far from the German city of Vreden . Groenlo shares a small train station with Lichtenvoorde on the Zutphen - Winterswijk line . The Grolsch brewery was located here from 1615 to 2003 and moved to Enschede in 2004 . Tourism and agriculture are important for the economy.

history

Groenlo belonged to the Lords of Borculo until 1236 , who sold it to the Counts of Geldern (since 1339: Dukes of Geldern ) that year. It received the 1277 town charter and developed for its convenience to a strong fortress sstadt. The phrase “zo vaste as Grolle” = as firm as Groenlo is still used in the region today.

Nevertheless, during the Eighty Years' War, the general Moritz von Nassau managed to take the city for the rebellious Netherlands after the siege in 1597 . His adversary Ambrosio Spinola recaptured it in 1606 , after which in 1627 Friedrich Heinrich Groenlo finally conquered the United Netherlands after heavy fighting . Groenlo then fell into a less important border town in the 18th century.

Attractions

A permanent exhibition on the city's history is housed in the Old Calixtus Church .

photos

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 4th 4th 4th 5
Actie Centrum Groenlo 5 6th 6th 5
PvdA 2 2 2 2
VVD 1 1 1 1
Gezonde Gemeentepolitiek 1 - 0 0
total 13 13 13 13

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities associated with the city

  • Philippus Rovenius (around 1574-1651), Roman Catholic bishop, temporarily had his seat in Groenlo

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on 19 July 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ^ Joannes Henricus Hofman: Het oude kerspel Borkelo . In: Archief voor de geschiedenis van het bisdom Utrecht , Vol. 1 (1874), pp. 179–207, here p. 179.
  3. ↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 137.
  4. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1990–2002 , accessed on July 19, 2018 (Dutch)