Leusden

This article describes the Dutch municipality of Leusden. Further meanings can be found under Leusden (disambiguation) .

Leusden community

flag	coat of arms
province	Utrecht
mayor	Gerolf Bouwmeester ( D66 )
Seat of the municipality	Leusden
Area  - land  - water	58.94  km 2 58.68 km 2 0.26 km 2
CBS code	0327
Residents	30,049 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	510 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	52 ° 8 '  N , 5 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '  N , 5 ° 26'  E
Important traffic route
prefix	033
Postcodes	3830-3834
Website	Homepage of Leusden

Leusden, church: de Jozefkerk

Leusden ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht .

Districts

Achterveld, Leusden, Leusden-Zuid and Stoutenburg, as well as Snorrenhoef, part of Moorst and other small settlement areas.

Original church

The municipality of Leusden has existed in its current form since the merger with Stoutenburg in 1969. The original parish consisted of two small villages, Leusbroek and Hamersveld. In the 1960s and 1970s both places grew a lot and were renamed Leusden-Zuid and Leusden-Centrum, later just Leusden.

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Attractions

• Leusden has the oldest church towers in the Netherlands. They are in Oud-Leusden and can be seen from Europastraße 30 .
• The concentration camp memorial of the former National Socialist police transit camp "Kamp Amersfoort" (see: Amersfoort ) is located in the area of ​​the municipality of Leusden.

history

Around 1300 BC BC people already lived here, which is evident from the discovery of some urn graves.

The name "Leusden" is very old. It is mentioned for the first time in an episcopal document from 777 as Villa Lisiduna . This, however, meant Oud-Leusden.

The district of Stoutenburg housed a monastery founded by the Utrecht bishop from 1006 and a castle used by the bishop from the 13th century . However, almost nothing has been preserved from both building complexes.

The Hamersveld district was economically dependent on tobacco cultivation from around 1600 to 1890 . After 1970 this part of Leusden developed into a suburb of the neighboring city of Amersfoort to the north .

The heather area Leusderheide became an important military training area with several barracks. Several facilities were built here by the German occupying forces during the Second World War . In 1941, the National Socialists set up a transit camp in this area for prisoners to be deported to the German concentration camps .

Allocation of seats in the municipal council (2014)

• CDA , 5 seats
• VVD , 4 seats
• GroenLinks / PvdA , 4 seats
• ChristenUnie / SGP , 3 seats
• D66 , 5 seats

See also : List of Mayors of Leusden

Sons and daughters (selection)

• Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort (born March 23, 1879 - † May 11, 1968 in Amersfoort), zoologist and university professor
• Jan van Burgsteden (born December 8, 1935), Roman Catholic priest, auxiliary bishop in Haarlem-Amsterdam
• Marieke Wijsman (born May 9, 1975), speed skater and police officer

Web links

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

• Website of the municipality (Dutch)
• Historical Kring Leusden (Dutch)
• Website of the former camp Kamp Amersfoort (Dutch, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)