Loenen, Apeldoorn
Village in Gelderland, Netherlands
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Loenen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Apeldoorn, about 10 km southeast of that city.
Loenen | |
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Loenen, catholic church | |
 Location of Loenen in the municipality of Apeldoorn (the urban area of Loenen is red and the rural area is pink) | |
  Loenen Location of Loenen in Gelderland  Loenen Loenen (Netherlands) | |
| Coordinates: 52°6′59″N 6°1′8″E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Gelderland |
| Municipality | Apeldoorn |
| Area | |
| 36.9 km2 (14.2 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 1.2 km2 (0.46 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 25 m (82 ft) |
| Population (1 January 2015)[1] | |
| 3,066 | |
| • Density | 83.1/km2 (215/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,116 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcodes | 7370 and 7371 |
| Area code | 055 |
Loenen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Apeldoorn.[3]
National Cemetery of Honours
Near the village of Loenen is the National Cemetery of Honours (Nationaal Ereveld Loenen), In 1948, it was decided to create a national cemetery of honours for the resistance fighters, political prisoners, and soldiers who died during World War II and were buried outside of the Netherlands.[4] There are close to 4,000 people buried at the cemetery[4]
In the centre is a chapel dedicated to the Engelandvaarders, the men and women who attempted to escape from the Netherlands to England, and a funerary urn containing earth from the concentration camps Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. In the back is the list of the 130,000 people whose remains have not been located.[5]
Notable people
- Willem Albert Scholten (1819–1895), industrialist and landowner[6]
