Groesbeek

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Groesbeek
Flag of the place Groesbeek
flag 		Coat of arms of the place Groesbeek
coat of arms
province Gelderland Gelderland
local community Flag of the municipality of Berg en Dal Berg en Dal
Area
 - land
 - water 		23.68  km 2
23.68 km 2
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Residents 12,860 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Coordinates 51 ° 47 '  N , 5 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '  N , 5 ° 56'  E
Important traffic route N842 N843
prefix 024
Postcodes 3962, 4744, 6521, 6561-6562
Evangelical Church in Groesbeek
Evangelical Church in GroesbeekTemplate: Infobox location in the Netherlands / maintenance / picture 1

Groesbeek ( listen ? / I ) was a municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland and has been a district of Berg en Dal since January 1, 2015 . The village of the same name and partly the village of Berg en Dal - namesake of the municipality - as well as the villages of Breedeweg , De Horst and Heilig Landstichting belonged to the municipality of Groesbeek . Audio file / audio sample

location

Groesbeek lies on the hilly compression moraines of the Lower Rhine Heights , so that the local area is up to 90  m above sea level. NN reached. The lowest parts ( 10  m above sea  level ) are part of the duffel . The significant forest areas ( Duivelsberg nature reserve ) are a continuation of the neighboring Klever Reichswald .

Groesbeek is located about 6 km southeast of Nijmegen . Located on the German border with Kranenburg , Kleve is the next German district town.

economy

The village, which was very poor until 1920, lives mainly from tourism and is very popular with hikers and mountain bikers due to the hilly forest landscape, which is rare in the Netherlands. Accordingly, there are hotels, campsites and other characteristics shaped and created by tourism.

Social structure

There are a lot of commuters living in Groesbeek who work in Nijmegen or Kleve. Until the end of 2011 there was a bus connection to the Rhein-Ruhr transport association that was useful for many commuters , but was abandoned at the turn of the year. The flourishing club life in Groesbeek is striking. Amateur football clubs in particular have many members and are among the strongest in the Netherlands.

history

In the field of belonging to Groesbeek peasantry De Holde urn produced in the first and second century AD Legionnaires Legio X Gemina bricks and ceramics. This local type of ceramics entered the specialist literature as Holdeurn earthenware .

Zuidmolen in Groesbeek

The town of Berg en Dal north of the village of Groesbeek was built around 1750 around a hostel of the same name on the Nijmegen-Kleve road, which describes the left high bank of the Waaltal . Here was in the 19th and 20th In the 19th century the steepest Dutch tram called the (Oude) Kleefsebaan or Het Bergspoor ( Gemeente Tram Nijmegen ), with a height difference of more than 60 meters and an important viaduct that was demolished in 1969. Parts of the settlement belong to the municipality of Ubbergen .

The Heilig Landstichting ( Holy Land Foundation) settlement was founded in 1911 by Catholic clergymen. They also created the Biblical Open-Air Museum , which used to be under strict censorship by the Catholic Church (explanations of the exhibits corresponded to Roman Catholic positions) and the Africa Museum, founded by their missionaries.

The village of Groesbeek was during the Second World War in Operation Market Garden heavy fighting in September 1944 and was almost completely destroyed it. It was rebuilt with state subsidies after the liberation.

On January 1, 2015, Groesbeek merged with Ubbergen and Millingen aan de Rijn to form a new municipality, which was initially also called Groesbeek, as Ubbergen and Millingen had significantly fewer inhabitants. In a referendum, however, the majority of the population chose the name Berg en Dal, which has been the official municipality name since January 1, 2016.

Attractions

The late Gothic Evangelical Church in the town center.

The Biblical Open Air Museum (Bijbels Openluchtmuseum) offers in replicated buildings and scenes from the Middle East an insight into the world in which Christianity , Judaism and later also Islam emerged. Topics from these religions are also dealt with. The exclusively Catholic standpoint has been abandoned. Since March 20, 2004, the biblical open-air museum has been called Museumpark Orientalis . The Catholic Zönakelkirche is located at an elevated point .

The Africa Museum in Berg en Dal has an interesting collection of objects from sub- Saharan Africa . This museum also has an open-air section with replica huts and other buildings.

The National Liberation Museum , since 2019: Freedom Museum , deals with the liberation of the Netherlands by the Allies from the German occupation between July 1944 and May 1945. The exhibits include original uniforms, weapons, propaganda materials and the like from both sides. The Canadian war cemetery Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery with a war memorial also commemorates the fighting from this period .

In the Generaal Gavinstraat there is a monument in memory of US Lieutenant General James M. Gavin .

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Until the dissolution of the municipality, the following distribution of seats resulted from 1998:

Political party Seats
1998 2002 2006 2010
CDA 4th 4th 3 4th
Groesbeekse Volkspartij 3 3 4th 3
For Openheid en a Leefbaar Groesbeek 2 4th 3 3
PvdA 4th 3 4th 3
VVD 2 1 1 2
GroenLinks 1 2 1 1
Sociaal Groesbeek - - 1 1
Natuurlijk Groesbeek - - - 0
DPG 1 0 - -
D66 0 - - -
total 17th 17th 17th 17th

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Groesbeek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 2, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.niag-online.de
  3. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1998–2002 2006 2010 , accessed on July 2, 2018 (Dutch)