Baak is a village in the municipality

Bronckhorst Bronckhorst () is a municipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands. The municipality is the result of a merger of the former municipalities Hengelo, Hummelo en Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden and Zelhem, on 1 January 2005. The municipality is named afte ...

in the Achterhoek part of the Dutch province of Gelderland. It stands on the Baakse Beek (literally, Brook of Baak) in the municipality of

, about 10 km from Zutphen. Baak was founded around 1190 as a hamlet (). The village has a quite large (for its number of inhabitants) neo-gothic church, designed by Alfred Tepe. Behind the church its 18th-century predecessor can be found, a so-called barn church which nowadays serves as a cultural centre. In the south of the village, on the premises of a farm, stands the ruined tower of an otherwise vanished Gothic chapel from the 15th century. Within the village limits one can also find the manor ''Huize Baak'', one of the many manors in this part of the Achterhoek. It houses the Christian organization

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Nederland. The manor and surrounding park can be visited by appointment. The manor can also be seen from the public road; a walking path goes all around the premises.

Gallery

Image:Baak, de Sint-Martinuskerk RM34529 IMG 4817 2020-04-19 12.41.jpg, Church: de Sint Martinuskerk File:Waterpumping station to keep Holland dry - panoramio.jpg, Pumping station File:Baak-bakermarksedijk-197685.jpg, Farm in Baak

References

External links

The official site of the municipality of Bronckhorst
Populated places in Gelderland Bronckhorst {{gelderland-geo-stub