Hoenderloo
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 coat of arms |
| province |
 Gelderland
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| local community |
 Apeldoorn Ede
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Area - land - water |
48.78 km 2 48.78 km 2 0 km 2 |
| Residents | 1,550 (Jan. 1, 2017) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 7 ' N , 5 ° 53' E |
| Important traffic route |
 
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| prefix | 055 |
| Postcodes | 6731, 6816, 6877, 7351-7352, 7361 |
| Website | Homepage of Hoenderloo |
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Hoenderloo is a place in the Netherlands . It is located in the southwest of the city of Apeldoorn in the province of Gelderland . Most of the village belongs to the municipality of Apeldoorn, a small part belongs to the municipality of Ede , including the farmers of Hoog Baarlo . Hoenderloo has 1,550 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
The village is located in the southern part of the Veluwe on the European long-distance hiking trail E11 near the National Park de Hoge Veluwe and the Deelerwoud . The main branch of the economy is tourism , there are campsites, recreation parks, restaurants, hotels and shopping malls. Hoenderloo has two motorway entrances at Rijksweg 1 and Rijksweg 50 .
history
Hoenderloo was created around the middle of the 19th century from a small number of scattered cottages . At that time the landscape consisted of heather and sand dunes . The preacher Ottho Heldring discovered the area and built a well in Hoenderloo and a little later a school. A few years later he also financed the construction of a church.
Around 1850, partly with the help of Heldring, a home for difficult-to-educate children and young people was built here, as the first of a series of homes, today's Hoenderloo Groep .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Bé Ruys (1917-2014), pastor
Oddities
- When the Dutch national football team set up their EM quarters in Hoenderloo during the 2000 European Championship, the community temporarily called itself Oranjeloo . Even in advance of the 2008 European Championships and the 2010 World Cup which referred Oranje Oranje training camp here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 1, 2018 (Dutch)