Ysselsteyn

Ysselsteyn

province	Limburg
local community	Venray
Area  - land  - water	33.62  km 2 33.55 km 2 0.07 km 2
Residents	2,275 (Jan 1, 2018)
Coordinates	51 ° 29 ′  N , 5 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′  N , 5 ° 54 ′  E
Important traffic route
prefix	0478
Postcodes	5813
Location of Ysselsteyn in the municipality of Venray

church

Ysselsteyn is a village in the municipality of Venray in the province of Limburg , in the Netherlands .

history

German war cemetery

It was founded in 1921 and named after its founder, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture. In 2008 it had 2170 inhabitants.

Ysselsteyn's main interest is the German war cemetery Ysselsteyn at Timmermansweg 73, which covers around 28 hectares and contains the burial sites of 31,598 German war dead, most of whom died in the Netherlands during World War II .

Born in Ysselsteyn

• Gerrit van Bakel (1943–1984), artist
• Mike Teunissen (* 1992), racing cyclist
• Peter Winnen (* 1957), racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Ysselsteyn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Venray municipality website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2018 . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , October 26, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 (Dutch)
2. ↑ ter Laan, K. et al. ed. (1942). Van Goor's aardrijkskundig woordenboek van Nederland (in Dutch). The Hague: Van Goor Zones.
3. ↑ German war cemetery Ysselsteyn . In: volksbund.de . Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV, accessed on December 21, 2018 (German)