Bunschoten
Country	Netherlands
Province	Utrecht
Area - Land - Water	34.88 km² 30.50 km² 4.38 km²
Population (2004) - Density	19,450 638/km²

Bunschoten is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. It lies about 7 km north of Amersfoort.

Contents

1 Population centres 2 The town of Bunschoten 3 Spakenburg 4 External link

Population centres

• Bunschoten
• Eemdijk
• Spakenburg
• Zevenhuizen

The town of Bunschoten

Bunschoten was first named in 1294. It was located on the border between Utrecht and Guelders, and it suffered a number of times from invasions from Guelders. In 1383, the bishop of Utrecht gave Bunschoten city rights, which allowed the citizens to build an earthen wall around the town. Unfortunately, the fortifications and a part of the town were destroyed at Christmas 1427 in a war between two rival bishops, and were never rebuilt.

Spakenburg

The fishing village of Spakenburg lies north of Bunschoten on the IJsselmeer. It is one of the few places left in the Netherlands where the women still wear the local traditional clothes.

In the 20th century, the two villages have grown quickly, and since about 1965 they form one single town, officially named Bunschoten-Spakenburg.

External link

• Official Website (http://www.bunschoten-spakenburg.nl)

Utrecht (province)
Abcoude - Amerongen - Amersfoort - Baarn - Breukelen - Bunnik - Bunschoten - De Bilt - De Ronde Venen - Doorn - Driebergen-Rijsenburg - Eemnes - Houten - IJsselstein - Leersum - Leusden - Loenen - Lopik - Maarn - Maarssen - Montfoort - Nieuwegein - Oudewater - Renswoude - Rhenen - Soest - Utrecht - Veenendaal - Vianen - Wijk bij Duurstede - Woerden - Woudenberg - Zeist
interactive map (http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gemprovin.htm#U)
Netherlands

nl:Bunschoten