Linne (Maasgouw)

Linne

flag	coat of arms
province	Limburg
local community	Maasgouw
Area  - land  - water	3.97  km 2 3.71 km 2 0.26 km 2
Residents	3,602 (Jan 1, 2018)
Coordinates	51 ° 9 '  N , 5 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '  N , 5 ° 56'  E
Important traffic route
prefix	0475
Postcodes	6049, 6051, 6065, 6067, 6097
Location of Linne in the municipality of Maasgouw

Linne

Linne is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg and belongs to the municipality of Maasgouw . The place is between Roermond and Maasbracht on the Maas .

From 1991 to 2007 the originally independent municipality belonged to the municipality of Maasbracht.

Attractions

Barrage of the Maas near Linne, in the background on the right the gas power plant Clauscentrale in Maasbracht and on the left behind the dam lined with poplars the hydropower plant

The upstream side of the hydropower plant

• The floodplain of Linner Weerd is a retreat area of the highly endangered in the Netherlands crested newt . It is also known for its stocks of the red carnation .
• The neo-Romanesque church of St. Martin was built in 1897.
• The energy supplier Essent operates the larger of its two hydropower plants on the Maas barrage near Linne . The power plant, built between 1987 and 1989, produces around 35 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually with its four Kaplan turbines and a maximum head of four meters . This is enough to supply around 10,000 households with electrical energy.

history

An old Roman road that led from Neuss on the Rhine to the Maas ends in Linne .

The village was first mentioned in a document in 943.

From 1794 to around 1815, the French period was in Linne as it was on the entire Left Rhine .

On May 10, 1940, the first day of the Western campaign , troops of the Wehrmacht marched through Linne; on May 15 the Netherlands capitulated .

From October 1944 to January 1945 Linne was close to the front line. Allied troops advanced as part of Operation Blackcock (from January 14th to 26th, 1945, code name for the conquest of the area between Roermond , Sittard and Heinsberg ). Because of the very cold and humid winter weather, tanks and wheeled vehicles could practically only move on roads; these were often mined by the Wehrmacht during their retreat.

The Linne defenders had a machine-gun nest and a Panzerkampfwagen IV . The fighting began at dawn on January 24, 1945; at 10:15 the next day Linne was reported as liberated.

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Until the municipality was dissolved, the following distribution of seats had been made since 1982:

Political party	Seats
	1982	1986
Lijst Reijnders a	2	4th
Lijst Van der Vorst b	4th	3
Algemeen Belang Linne c	3	2
CDA	2	2
total	11	11

^a In the municipal council elections in 1982 the Lijst Reijnders ran as "Lijst Hansen".

^b Lijst Van der Vorst took part in the elections in 1982 as "Lijst Creemers".

^a In 1982 the party Algemeen Belang Linne was called "Lijst Bertjens".

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cijfers en feiten Gemeente Maasgouw, accessed on August 7, 2018 (Dutch)
2. ↑ Website of the municipality of Maasgouw with information on Linne, accessed on July 16, 2011 (in Dutch) ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Essent website on hydropower plants, accessed on July 10, 2011 (in Dutch)
4. ↑ page 17 of the pdf (page 13 of the report; English)
5. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1982–1986 , accessed on August 7, 2018 (Dutch)