Otterlo
Village in Gelderland, Netherlands
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Otterlo is a village in the municipality of Ede of province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, in or near the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe.
Otterlo | |
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Village | |
Otterlo Reformed Church | |
  Otterlo Location in the Netherlands  Otterlo Otterlo (Netherlands) | |
| Coordinates: 52°6′1″N 5°46′21″E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Gelderland |
| Municipality | Ede |
| Area | |
• Total | 103.90 km2 (40.12 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 28 m (92 ft) |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 2,310 |
| • Density | 22.2/km2 (57.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 6731[1] |
| Dialing code | 0318 |
| Website | otterlo.nl |
The Kröller-Müller Museum, named after Helene Kröller-Müller, is situated nearby and has the world's second largest collection of Vincent van Gogh paintings.
Otterlo was a separate municipality until 1818, when it merged with Ede.[3]
History
Second World War
During the first four years of the war, Otterlo was relatively unharmed. The local resistance made use of a secret telephone connection from an electrician's house, which in 2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicate with the allies below the river Rhine (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families hid Jewish people from the Germans. One location was betrayed however, resulting in a raid in 1944 at the house 'De Lindenhof' at the Hoenderlooseweg.[4]
During the liberation of Netherlands in April 1945, Otterlo was the center of a fierce and bloody battle between German and British and Canadian soldiers. See the Battle of Otterlo.
