Arnheim

base data
province:	Funds country
postal zip code:	6800
preselection:	+31 26
house address of the local administration:	Koningstraat 38 6811 DG Arnhem
Website:	www.arnhem.nl
E-Mail address:
Map: Arnheim in the province funds country

population
inhabitant:	142.162 (1. March 2006)
- rank:	xx of 489
population density:	1,394 Einwohner/km ²
Geografie
Fläche:	101.53 km ²
- of it country:	99.08 km ² (97.59%)
- of it water:	2.45 km ² (2.41%)
- rank:	xx of 489
height:	8 - 80 m and. NN
geographical situation:	Coordinates: 51° 59 ′ N, 5° 55 ′ O 51° 59 ′ N, 5°55 ′ O
politics
mayor:	P.C. Krikke (VVD) (since 1. September 2001)
A governing party:
Mandates in the local council (39 seats):	PvdA 8 VVD 6 CDA 5 Zuid Centraal 5 Groenlinks 4 Leefbaar Arnhem 4 Socialisti Partij 3 D66 2 ChristenUnie 1 Stadspartij 1

Arnheim (Netherlands: Arnhem) is one at the Niederrhein , one of the large Rhine arms, lying city. It has 142,162 inhabitants (1.März 2005) and is capital of the Netherlands province funds country. In the year 2000 here some plays of the football European championship in the Gelredome found, to the home stadium of Vitesse Arnheim instead of.

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history

Arnheim, Eusebius-Kirche oder Grote Kerk

Arnheim developed at a hill in the proximity of the Ijssel, at the crossing of the trade routes between Utrecht, Nimwegen and Zutphen.Only since the change of the Rhine run around 1500 Arnheim is because of this river.

In the year 1233 count Otto von Gelre Arnheim gave the municipal law. In 15. Century counted the city of approximately 4000 inhabitants and received Stadtmauern and towers for defense.

The Netherlands city was from 1672 to 1674 and from 1795 to 1813 of France okkupiert.

Around 1850 about 9000 humans in Arnheim lived. At that time the region became around Arnheim and Nimwegen a popular domicile of the large middle class from the western provinces of the Netherlands. In the consequence representative park plants becamecreated, the city this very day to the surname „park city “owes. Parks such as Sonsbeek (in the center) and Zijpendaal (in the north of the city) coin/shape the townscape.

In the Second World War the city was heavily destroyed. The battle around the bridge of Arnheim in September 1944 is considered as onethe last defeats of the allied ones in this war. After the battle those forced to leave the armed forces at that time 95,000 inhabitants the city.

To 16. September 1978 was renamed the Rhine bridge in John frost bridge (John Frostbrug ), after the British Colonel, the 1944 during the unsuccessful offensivethat battalion kommandierte, which reached the bridge as only and which northern part long defended four days. A Gedenktafel reminds of the battle and its many victims. In addition you were matt Damon dedicated the film the soldier to James Ryan with the actors Tom Hanks and.

After the war a dynamic reconstruction followed. The population of the city continues to grow until today.

As last city of the Netherlands Arnheim possesses a trolley bus net.

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