Wageningen

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Flag of the municipality of Wageningen
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Wageningen
coat of arms
province Gelderland Gelderland
mayor Geert van Rumund ( PvdA )
Seat of the municipality Wageningen
Area
 - land
 - water 		32.36  km 2
30.42 km 2
1.94 km 2
CBS code 0289
Residents 38,775 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 1198 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 51 ° 58 ′  N , 5 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′  N , 5 ° 40 ′  E
Important traffic route N225 N781 N782
prefix 0317
Postcodes 6701-6709
Website Homepage of Wageningen
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"Grote Kerk" (Great Church) in Wageningen
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Hotel “De Wereld” (The World) in Wageningen

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Location and economy

Wageningen is located on the Lower Rhine , south of Ede . The municipality borders on the province of Utrecht . The town lies on the edge of the Veluwe , near the motorway Utrecht  -  Arnhem . Significant is the specialized particular life and environmental sciences research at Wageningen University (Wageningen University & Research Center), are among the several research labs and farms.

An international commercial weather service , MeteoGroup, operates from Wageningen.

There are also several printing and publishing companies in Wageningen.

history

Wageningen emerged as a border town of the Duchy of funds in the 11th century , and received in 1263 the city rights from Count Otto II. The fortress lost after a conquest in 1672 by the French increasingly important. In the 18th and 19th centuries , the inhabitants lived partly from tobacco production (the sandy soils of the area are suitable for growing the tobacco plant), in the 19th century from stone factories. The flowering began when the Dutch Reich Agricultural School (from 1918 university) was established here in 1876. This also brought the printing works to Wageningen.

In May 1940 Wageningen suffered heavy war devastation in the battle for the "Grebbeberg" between Wageningen and Rhenen .

On May 2, 1945, the Achterveld armistice was signed in Wageningen. He arranged the food supply for the starving population of West Holland as part of Operations Manna and Chowhound and Operation Faust .

On May 5, 1945, signed Canadian General Charles Foulkes for the Allies and the German side General John Blaskowitz the surrender documents, bombed in part, temporarily defunct and 2004 re-opened Hotel "De Wereld" ( The World ), whereby the Second World War - and thus the German occupation - in the entire Netherlands was officially over. This act is held annually on May 5, the Bevrijdingsdag ( Liberation thought) with a parade of war veterans, until his death in 2004 was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands , who had also signed on 5 May 1945, always the senior person. Blaskowitz committed suicide during the Nuremberg Trial .

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Local elections 2018
 %
30th
20th
10
0
22.4
18.2
17.6
9.3
7.7
6.8
6.8
6.2
5.0
n. k.
SPW
CW
NS
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+4.0
+0.7
-2.2
+0.1
-3.1
+6.8
+1.0
-3.4
-3.5
-0.3
SPW
CW
NS

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1986:

Political party Seats
1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
GroenLinks - 4th 5 6th 6th 4th 5 5 6th
Stadspartij Wageningen a - - - - 1 2 2 5 5
D66 2 4th 4th 2 1 2 6th 5 5
VVD 4th 3 3 4th 4th 3 3 2 2
PvdA 8th 6th 6th 7th 6th 7th 4th 3 2
Connect Wageningen - - - - - - - - 2
ChristenUnie - - - - 1 1 1 1 1
CDA 5 5 4th 3 4th 3 3 2 1
SP 0 - - - - 3 1 2 1
Nederland seeds - - - - - - - 0 -
SGP 0 1 1 0 0 0 - - -
RPF - 1 - - - - -
GPV - - - - - - - -
Wageningen works - - - 0 - - - - -
Nederland Mobiel - - - 0 - - - - -
De Groenen - - 0 - - - - - -
Koevoet - 0 - - - - - - -
Small left 4th - - - - - - - -
NIKS 0 - - - - - - - -
Lijst-Verheyen 0 - - - - - - - -
total 23 23 23 23 23 25th 25th 25th 25th
a In the local elections in 2002, the Stadspartij Wageningen ran under the name "Leefbaar Wageningen".

College of Mayors and Aldermen

The parties ChristenUnie , D66 , GroenLinks and PvdA have formed a coalition for the period 2018–2022. They each provide an alderman for the college . These were appointed during a council meeting on May 14, 2018. The following people belong to the college and are responsible in the following areas:

function Surname Political party Department annotation
mayor Geert van Rumund PvdA public order and security, crisis management, fire brigade, enforcement, communication and education, sport, asylum affairs, personnel and organization, international cooperation, public affairs, hospitable town hall, information and automation, community archives, cultural history, democratic renewal in office since November 1, 2005
Alderman Lara de Brito GroenLinks Health and well-being, youth, education, functional illiteracy, poverty reduction and debt service, asylum and integration, food transition, school transport and regional taxi, city of liberation, implementation of the environmental law, democratic renewal -
Dennis Gudden D66 Green, economy, port, business locations, labor market, participation law, garbage, tourism, city center, finances, communal real estate, democratic renewal -
Anne Janssen PvdA Housing and districts, natural gas-free districts, resident participation, culture, extracurricular cultural education, spatial planning, zoning plans, licensing and enforcement of spatial planning, basic operations -
Peter de Haan ChristenUnie coordinating councilor for sustainability, climate neutrality, climate adaptation, sustainable mobility, bicycle traffic, public transport, infrastructure, parking facilities, public work, environmental policy, sewerage and water, Grebbedijk -
Community Secretary Ron van der Grijp - - interim community secretary since February 2017

Personalities

Sports

The Wageningse Arbeiders Voetbal Vereniging football club is based in Wageningen . The club's first team plays in the sixth class Tweede class in the 2014/15 season. He took part in the first round of the KNVB Cup in the 2014/15 season .

See also

Web links

Commons : Wageningen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wageningen in Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Matthew Merian)  - springs and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ^ William I. Hitchcock : The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe , Simon and Schuster, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7432-7381-7 , pp. 116 ff.
  3. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on July 23, 2018 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on July 23, 2018 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Coalitiakkoord 2018 - 2022 (PDF, 474 KB) Gemeente Wageningen, accessed on July 23, 2018 (Dutch)
  6. ↑ Eric Wijnacker: Wageningen krijgt as the first een nieuw college. In: de Gelderlander . Wegener, May 12, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Samenstelling Gemeente Wageningen, accessed on July 23, 2018 (Dutch)
  8. ↑ Van Rumund is called burgemeester Wageningen. In: Trouw . De Persgroep Nederland , October 17, 2005, accessed July 23, 2018 (Dutch).