Gelderland - Definition and Overview

Gelderland
Province of the Netherlands

Capital	Arnhem
Queen's Commissioner	Jan Kamminga
Area  - Total  - % water	2nd 5137 km²  ?%
Population  - Total (2004)  - Density	4th 1,966,929 379/km²
Anthem	Ons Gelderland

Gelderland (English also Guelders) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem. The two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn have more inhabitants.

Gelderland was a duchy in the Holy Roman Empire, including also parts of the province of Limburg and of the German District of Cleves with the city of Geldern, the city where the duchy started. It became part of the Habsburgian Netherlands in 1543.

Municipalities

Currently (2005), the municipalities in Gelderland are as follows:

Province Gelderland

Aalten | Apeldoorn | Arnhem | Barneveld | Berkelland | Beuningen | Bronckhorst | Brummen | Buren | Culemborg | Doesburg | Doetinchem | Druten | Duiven | Ede | Elburg | Epe | Ermelo | Geldermalsen | Groenlo | Groesbeek | Harderwijk | Hattem | Heerde | Heumen | Lingewaal | Lingewaard | Lochem | Maasdriel | Millingen aan de Rijn | Montferland | Neder-Betuwe | Neerijnen | Nijkerk | Nijmegen | Nunspeet | Oldebroek | Oude IJsselstreek | Overbetuwe | Putten | Renkum | Rheden | Rijnwaarden | Rozendaal | Scherpenzeel | Tiel | Ubbergen | Voorst | Wageningen | West Maas en Waal | Westervoort | Wijchen | Winterswijk | Zaltbommel | Zevenaar | Zutphen

See also Betuwe, Linge.

Municipalities Abolished on 1 Jan 2005

The following municipalities were abolished on 1 January 2005; see further [1] (http://home.wxs.nl/~pagklein/gemhis.html#nu)(in Dutch) for more detailed information on these changes.

These municipalities were merged with neighbouring ones:

• Angerlo was merged into Zevenaar
• Dinxperlo was merged into Aalten
• Gorssel was merged into Lochem
• Lichtenvoorde was merged into Groenlo
• Warnsveld was merged into Zutphen
• Wehl was merged into Doetinchem

These municipalities were merged and given a new name:

• Borculo, Eibergen, Neede, and Ruurlo became Berkelland
• Hengelo, Hummelo en Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden, and Zelhem became Bronckhorst
• Bergh and Didam became Montferland
• Gendringen and Wisch became Oude IJsselstreek

External links

• interactive province map showing subdivision in municipalities, link for each municipality to basic data page (http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gemprovin.htm#G)
• ditto, more up-to-date, but the map is not interactive (http://geodata.prv.gelderland.nl/scripts/esrimap.dll?Name=Zakgeld2&Scherm=Start&Frames=Yes&Cmd=Show)
• Detailed map (http://geodata.prv.gelderland.nl/geostart.asp?appl=3) - the map shows streets and buildings; it does not show street names, but one can search for a street name, and the street will then be marked; one can also get a list of all streets in a town.

Provinces of the Netherlands (ranked lists)
Drenthe | Flevoland | Friesland | Gelderland | Groningen | Limburg | North Brabant | North Holland | Overijssel | South Holland | Utrecht | Zeeland