Nederasselt is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

municipality 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 go ...

Heumen Heumen () is a municipality and a village in the eastern Netherlands. Population centres *Heumen * Malden (administrative centre) *Molenhoek (partly) *Nederasselt *Overasselt Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Heumen, J ...

in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...

, the

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History

The village was first mentioned in 1301 as Nederassel, and means "lower open forest with ash ('' Fraxinus excelsior'') trees". Neder (lower) has been added to distinguish between

Overasselt Overasselt is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Heumen. History The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Asle, and means "upper open forest with ash ('' Fraxinus excelsior'') tree ...

. Nederasselt separated from Overasselt in the 12th century and developed on a ridge. The Dutch Reformed church is a small square church built in 1804. In 1930, a consistory and tower were added. The Catholic St Antony Abt is a

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

basilica-like church which was constructed between 1890 and 1891. Nederasselt was home to 134 people in 1840. In 1929, the road from Den Bosch to

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

(nowadays: N324) was constructed, and the village started to extend towards the road. The

John S. Thompsonbrug The John S. Thompsonbrug is a bridge over the Maas River between Grave and Nederasselt in the Netherlands. Construction The bridge was built in 1929 as part of the main road between 's-Hertogenbosch and Nijmegen. It still carries that road, now ...

was built as part of the road. It is mainly located in Nederasselt, and was captured on 17 September 1944 by the

82nd Airborne Division The 82nd Airborne Division is an Airborne forces, airborne infantry division (military), division of the United States Army specializing in Paratrooper, parachute assault operations into denied areasSof, Eric"82nd Airborne Division" ''Spec Ops ...

under command of Jocko Thompson during

Operation Market Garden Operation Market Garden was an Allies of World War II, Allied military operation during the World War II, Second World War fought in the Netherlands from 17 to 27 September 1944. Its objective was to create a Salient (military), salient into G ...

. Near the bridge is also a

sluice Sluice ( ) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered ...

and

weir A weir or low head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level. Weirs are also used to control the flow of water for outlets of l ...

Gallery

File:Molen nederasselt.jpg, Mill near Nederasselt File:Bridge grave1.jpg, Military vehicles on the John S. Thompsonbrug File:T.T vm Pastorie Nederasselt.JPG, Former clergy house File:Ondergelopen boerderij te Neder-Asselt (Land van Maas en Waal), RP-T-1991-24.jpg, Drawing of a flooded farm (1926)

References

{{Commons category, position=left Populated places in Gelderland Heumen