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Horst, Limburg
Horst is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas. Although the municipality is named after the village, Horst itself is not called "aan de Maas", because it does not lie directly on the river Meuse (in Dutch called Maas). Horst is known for its holiday parks. It is a popular destination for people looking for walks and cycling in nature. The village centre has plenty of cafes and restaurants and during summer season markets and other events are held regularly. Towns and the number of inhabitants on 1 January 2016 *America, 2.055 * Broekhuizen, 763 *Broekhuizenvorst, 1077 * Eversoort, 256 * Griendtsveen, 541 *Grubbenvorst, 4.799 *Hegelsom, 1.908 *Horst, 12.780 * Kronenberg, 1.152 *Lottum, 1.948 *Meerlo, 1.892 *Melderslo, 2.053 *Meterik, 1.471 *Sevenum, 6.546 * Swolgen, 1.230 *Tienray, 1.208 *Total, 41.679 (Updated from the 2016 Horst aan de Maas official website infographics data) Horst was a separate municipality until it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 UN member states, 2 UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a special political status (2 states, both in free association with New Zealand). Compiling a list such as this can be a complicated and controversial process, as there is no definition that is binding on all the members of the community of nations concerni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hegelsom
Hegelsom (Limburgish: ''Haegelsem'') is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. The village was first mentioned in 1424 as Heugelsem, and means "settlement of Hegel (person)". Hegelsom developed in the 19th century as a heath excavation village. Hegelsom was home to 280 people in 1840. Notable people * Raymond Knops Raymond Willem Knops (born 10 November 1971) is a Dutch politician and retired RNLAF officer who served as State Secretary for the Interior and Kingdom Relations under the Third Rutte cabinet from 2017 to 2019 and again from 2020 until 2022. A m ... (b. 1971), politician Gallery File:Sint Joriskapel, Hegelsom.jpg, St Joris chapel File:Hegelsom - Haan.jpg, Rooster on a roundabout statue References Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Horst aan de Maas {{LimburgNL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Limburg (Netherlands)
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of The Netherlands Disestablished In 2001
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weeze Airport
Weeze Airport , less commonly known as ''Niederrhein Airport'', is a minor international airport in the Lower Rhine region of Germany. It is used by Ryanair. The airport is situated southwest of the municipality of Weeze () and northwest of Kevelaer, about southeast of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, and northwest of the German city of Duisburg. Between 2008 and 2013, this was one of Germany's fastest-growing airports; however, the airport handled only 1.23 million passengers in 2019, reflecting a decline in throughput triggered by Ryanair reducing its route network. History The airport uses the facilities of the former military airbase RAF Laarbruch, and began operating as a civil airport in 2003. There is also a large fire department training facility on the airport grounds. Its IATA code is ''NRN'' because of its official name ''Flughafen Niederrhein''. The airport has had several different names in its history as a civil airport. The operators originally wanted to name it aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst-Sevenum Railway Station
Horst-Sevenum is a railway station for Horst and Sevenum, The Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 October 1866 and is located on the Venlo–Eindhoven railway. The services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Train service The following services currently call at Horst-Sevenum: *2x per hour intercity services The Hague - Rotterdam - Breda - Eindhoven - Venlo Bus services Bus Service 60 stops at the station. This service serves both Horst and Sevenum. Taxi Bus services 64 and 65 also stop at this station. 64 to Griendtsveen via America. 65 to Panningen via Evertsoord. Service 69 also serves the station. Operating between Tienray Tienray ( li, Tiendere) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Horst aan de Maas, and is located about north of Venlo. Tienray is a site of pilgrimage dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes since the 15th c ... and Horst-Sevenum station. This service operates via Horst. External linksNS websiteDutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tienray
Tienray ( li, Tiendere) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is a part of the municipality of Horst aan de Maas, and is located about north of Venlo. Tienray is a site of pilgrimage dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes since the 15th century. In 1877, Tienray was officially permitted to use the title ''Klein Lourdes'' (Little Lourdes) by papal order. History The village was first mentioned between 1324 and 1364 as Tedenrade, and means "forest cultivation of Tedo or Tiedo (person)". Tienray developed in the Middle Ages on newly cultivated land. It used to belong to the . In 1442, a Lady chapel was built in Tienray which became a site of pilgrimage. In 1580, the village became part of Spanish Guelders. In 1713, after the War of the Spanish Succession, it became part of Prussia. In 1794, Tienray was conquered by France, and became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. In 1830, the area choose the side of Belgium during the Belgian Revolution, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevenum
Sevenum (; li, Zaerem) is a town in the province of Limburg in the southeastern Netherlands. Until 2010, it was also the name of the municipality comprising the towns of Sevenum, Kronenberg and Evertsoord. Amusement park Toverland is located in sevenum. Location Sevenum's neighbour towns are (clockwise, starting from East): Blerick, Venlo, Maasbree, Kronenberg, Grubbenvorst, Hegelsom, Horst, Grubbenvorst. Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277 ( Middenpeelweg), and the railroad track Eindhoven-Venlo; Evertsoord lies on the edge of the Peel, a former peatland. Dialect Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerums", is transitional between Limburgish, North-Limburgish (see Low Rhenish), and Brabantian, which all have tentative borders within a larger dialect continuum. In the diagram "Kleverlandish" on this page, Sevenum is situated near the bottom-left corner of the blue area, which is the intersection of the horizontal "ich/ik" isogloss (the Uerdingen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meterik
Meterik ( li, De Miëterik) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas, bordering rich farmland to the north and a moor called De Peel to the west. Meterik is located along a brook, the Kabroekse beek, which provides fertile grazing lands. On 1 January 2019, Meterik had 1627 inhabitants. Meterik is the ancestral home of astronomer Peter Jenniskens. The village is known as a haven for temporary workers for seasonal work in the agricultural sector. Currently many of the workers are from Bulgaria and Romania. History Based on stone tools found, hunter gatherers of the mesolithic (10,000-5,300 BC) frequented the heathlands that formed in Northern Limburg after the Weichselian glaciation. Slash and burn farming came to the region at the start of the neolithic around 5500 BC, with Aegean Neolithic Farmers of the Bandkeramic ( linear pottery) culture, mostly settling in the loss lands to the south. Around 2900, the Bronze A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melderslo
Melderslo is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas. The village was first mentioned in the 15th century Meldersloe, and either means "forest of Madalhêr (person)" or "forest belonging to Meerlo". Melderslo was home to 301 people in 1840. On 26 May 1943, an Avro Lancaster was hit by Flak and crashed near Melderslo killing five of the crew member. A monument is located at the crash site. Museum De Locht is a museum for products produced in the region. In 1993, it was extended with the National Asparagus and Champignon ''Agaricus bisporus'' is an edible basidiomycete mushroom native to grasslands in Eurasia and North America. It has two color states while immature – white and brown – both of which have various names, with additional names for the mature .... Gallery File:Bakkershuisje-1.jpg, Baker's hut at Museum de Locht File:Lancaster MK-III W-4998 100sqd vliegtuig monument..JPG, Lancaster crash memoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meerlo
Meerlo is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas History The village was first mentioned in the 1180s as Mirlare, and is combination of "forest pasture" and swamp. Meerlo developed in the Middle Ages along the Grote Molenbeek. In 1485, it became an independent parish. In 1648, it became part of Spanish Guelders. In 1713, it went to Prussia, and finally in 1815, it became part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Meerlo Castle existed before 1230. It was destroyed in 1580, rebuilt in 1619, and burnt down in 1752. The count of Hatzfeldt order to rebuilding of the farms on the castle ground which are now known as 't Kasteeltje (little castle). The Catholic John the Baptist Church is a three aisled church with the tower at the side. It was built between 1934 and 1935 to replace the church from around 1500. In 1944, the tower was blown up and rebuilt in 1954. Meerlo was home to 520 people in 1840. It was an independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
