Renkum is the name of a village in the

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Renkum Renkum () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in and has a land area of . Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the ''Stadsregio'' (English: City reg ...

. In the early days, the name of the village was written as ''Redinchem''. In the 19th century, Renkum developed itself. There existed six

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, three water-cornmills and one water-oil mill. There were two factories, a

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factory and a potato starch-flour factory. During

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, Renkum was involved in the Battle of Arnhem.

Notable people from Renkum

* Derk Bolt (born 1955 in Renkum) a Dutch TV presenter, editor and producer IMDb Database
retrieved 02 December 2019 *

Kay van Dijk Kay van Dijk (born 25 June 1984) is a Dutch volleyball player, a member of Netherlands men's national volleyball team in 2003-2013 and Persian club Peykan Tehran volleyball club, a participant of the Olympic Games Athens 2004, a silver medalist ...

(born 1984 in Renkum) a Dutch volleyball player, competed in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

Nol Hendriks Arnold (Nol) Hendriks (15 May 1937 – 21 October 2017) was a Dutch businessman and football executive. Business career Born in Renkum, he moved to Limburg with his parents when his father started working in the mines in Heerlen. He later worked i ...

(1937, born in Renkum), businessman and football executive * Bjorn Stenvers (1972, grew up in Renkum), international museum director *

Xan de Waard Xan de Waard (born 8 November 1995) is a Dutch field hockey player. De Waard has played 150 international matches for the Netherlands women's national field hockey team. She was a member of the Dutch team that won the 2014 Women's Hockey World C ...

(1995, born in Renkum), field hockey player *

Piet de Zwarte Pieter ("Piet") Karel de Zwarte (born 16 February 1948 in Renkum) is a former Dutch water polo player, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. See also * List of Olympic medali ...

(1948, born in Renkum), water polo player

References

Populated places in Gelderland Renkum {{Gelderland-geo-stub