Apeldoorn (;

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: ) is a

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and city in the province of

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in the centre of the

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. The municipality of Apeldoorn, including the villages of

Beekbergen Beekbergen (; or ''Beekbargen'') is a village and former municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Apeldoorn on the edge of the Veluwe. The rural area on the southwestern side of the village is domi ...

Loenen Loenen () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It was in the '' Vechtstreek'' area. On January 1, 2011, Loenen merged with Breukelen and Maarssen to form Stichtse Vecht. Population centres The former munic ...

Ugchelen Ugchelen is part of the municipality of Apeldoorn in the Gelderland province of the Netherlands, and is today seen as a village. Ugchelen is located South West of Apeldoorn and has about 7000 inhabitants. Like Apeldoorn, the old village thanked i ...

and

Hoenderloo Hoenderloo () is a Dutch village located south west of the city of Apeldoorn. Most of the village is part of the municipality of Apeldoorn, but a small part belongs to the municipality of Ede, among which the hamlet Hoog Baarlo. The village is ...

, had a population of 165,525 on 1 December 2021. The western half of the municipality lies on the

Veluwe The Veluwe () is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2; 420 sq. mi.) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many different landscapes, including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand ...

ridge, with the eastern half in the

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valley.

The city of Apeldoorn

The oldest known reference to Apeldoorn, then called Appoldro, dates from the 8th century. The settlement came into being at the point where the old road from

Amersfoort Amersfoort () is a Cities of the Netherlands, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht, Netherlands. As of 31 January 2023, the municipality had ...

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crossed that from

Arnhem Arnhem ( ; ; Central Dutch dialects, Ernems: ''Èrnem'') is a Cities of the Netherlands, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is the capita ...

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. A 1740 map refers to it as A''pp''eldoorn.Stenvert, R. et al. (2000). ''Monumenten in Nederland: Gelderland'', p. 14 and 68–77. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. Close by is the favourite country-seat of the royal family of the Netherlands called the palace het Nieuwe Loo (now

Het Loo Paleis Het Loo ( , meaning "The Lea") is a palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, built by the House of Orange-Nassau. History The symmetrical Dutch Baroque building was designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and was built between 1684 an ...

). It was originally a hunting lodge of the dukes of Gelderland, but in its present form dates chiefly from the time of the then

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(1685–1686). The younger sister of

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, Princess Margriet, lives nearby the palace Het Loo, with her husband

Pieter van Vollenhoven Pieter van Vollenhoven Jr. (born 30 April 1939) is the husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and a member, by marriage, of the Dutch royal house. Early life and career Van Vollenhoven was born in Schiedam, he is the second son of Pi ...

. Apeldoorn was a relatively insignificant place until the major building projects of the 19th century and those of the period following

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. The Protestant church was restored after a fire in 1890. The Roman Catholic Mariakerk is a national monument. Apeldoorn possesses large paper-mills, many offices (

Centraal Beheer Centraal Beheer is an insurance company located in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. It became part of Achmea in 2001. Centraal Beheer is usually referred to as "Apeldoorn". Its offices are known for its architecture by Herman Hertzberger. The company is n ...

, an insurance company; the Dutch Tax services; the "Kadaster", the government land registry service; and some more), a hospital and nursing homes. With over 100,000 people working in the municipality, Apeldoorn is one of the most important employment centres in the eastern Netherlands. Apeldoorn also has several important educational institutes, such as the Saxion University of Applied Sciences (hotel and facility management), the Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands Police Academy and the Theological University of Apeldoorn. Apeldoorn is well suited to logistical and distribution companies because of its location close to the intersection of two major Dutch motorways. The A1 runs west from Amsterdam to the German border, where it leads towards Hannover, and Berlin. The A50 connects the north of the Netherlands with the south. Apeldoorn used to be well known as a town of paper making and clothes washing companies, due to the clean filtered groundwater which seeped through the sand of push moraines down to the IJsselvallei east of Apeldoorn. In 2008 the largest paper mill of what was left of "Van Gelder Papier" after reorganizations went bankrupt. In 1996 a devastating fire destroyed the remnants of the last part of the original factory. Other parts of the production facility that remained are now in use as a production facility by AFP (Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging B.V.), since early 2021 known as "Trioworld" because AFP merged with "Trioplast", Loparex B.V. and Owens Corning Veil Netherlands B.V. On the entire industrial estate now known as "Van Gelder Park" are now also located a local head office of Rabobank, the main police and fire department offices along with some other local companies. Apeldoorn has a considerable meat processing industry with production and storage facilities of among others; Vion NV, Van Drie Group (ESA, Ekro), Grolleman Groep (cold stores, transport and meat processing), Amsterdam Meat Company (Ameco). Other big/larger companies or ones that are of local importance include Hanos international (horesca), Hamer B.V. (installation), HSL Logistics (since merged with GVT Logistics), HCA Holland Colours (industrial plastics coloring), Remeha (heating boilers), Royal Reesink N.V. The former distribution centre is now used as a distribution centre for Picnic, an internet grocery home delivery service, although Royal Reesink is still using the office parts of the building. In August 2018 PostNL opened a large package sorting centre at the Oude Apeldoornseweg, newly built at the industrial area now known as "FizzionParc" but once was known as an industrial estate of Philips Data Systems, the new PostNL location will provide work for around 400 employees. On 27 November 2018, a rapid spreading fire completely destroyed the largest store of "Karwei" DIY centres in The Netherlands, located at the Laan van de Dierenriem in Apeldoorn. No one was injured, and as of 2020 the location was rebuilt and reopened. A part of the new building is now up for rent for another business. Akzo Diosynth once operated a facility that produced base materials for medicine manufacture, but production has since ceased. The terrain located at the Vlijtseweg has been renamed after the product that was produced here before that, Zwitsal. It is now known as "Zwitsal Apeldoorn" and the former facility now houses many new local businesses, such as the beer brewery "De Vlijt". Apenheul is a

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which hosts a number of different types of

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s and

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s, many of which are free to walk around the visitors. It is situated at the western edge of Apeldoorn and can easily be reached by local bus. There is also an amusement park situated in Apeldoorn, called the ''Koningin Juliana Toren'' (Queen Juliana Tower). It is situated nearby the Apenheul and lies on the road to Hoog Soeren. It is called the Koningin Juliana Toren because of the tower, which was built in 1910 and was later named after

Queen Juliana Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke ...

. The local hospital is the Gelre Hospital "Lukas", offering secondary health care to Apeldoorn and the surrounding towns.

Apeldoorn railway station Apeldoorn railway station (; Railway stations in the Netherlands#List of stations, with their official abbreviations, abbreviation: Apd) is a railway station in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The station was opened on 15 May 1876, on the Amsterdam–Zu ...

is, among regular national and international services, the terminus for the Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij, a preserved steam railway that runs to

Dieren Dieren () is a town in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in Rheden, Gelderland, between Zutphen and Arnhem, on the bank of the IJssel. Dieren was a separate municipality until 1818, when it became a part of Rheden. The Gazelle bicycle fa ...

via

. In April 2009 Apeldoorn made world news, when eight people were killed after a

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tried to attack the

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during a Queen's Day celebration by crashing his car near the royal family's bus. The southwestern corner of the municipality is part of the

Hoge Veluwe National Park De Hoge Veluwe National Park (; "The High Veluwe") is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodland ...

. It is the final Battle Honour of

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who took part in the town's liberation in World War II.

House of Orange-Nassau

Paleis

reflects the historical ties between the

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and the

. The central part of the palace and the lateral pavilions show how the palace was inhabited by the House of Orange for three centuries starting with the King Stadtholder

up to and including

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. In November 1684 Prince William III of Orange, then

, purchased Het Loo with the intentions of building a palatial hunting lodge somewhere on the property. On 5 April 1685, the first contract was tendered and in September of the same year the stonework of the middle section (or corps de logis) of what came to be known as Het Loo was completed. In 1686, the year given on the facade of the building, the wings, originally linked by colonnades to the corps de logis were added, the walls were built and the gardens were laid out. Het Loo became the favorite hunting seat and country palace of William III and his wife Queen

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, and until his death in 1702 furnishings and decorations both inside and outside underwent repeated alterations and embellishments. At that time symmetry was considered ideal and the design for the building and grounds featured a central axis with mirror image components on either side. Inside the palace the axis consisted of the Entrance Hall, the Staircase and the Great Hall on the first floor. West and east of the Great Hall respectively were the apartments of William III and Mary II. The apartments of the courtiers and the Dining Room were on the ground floor. In 1689 William III became King of England, Scotland and Ireland and this elevation of his position and power brought an enlargement of Het Loo in its wake. Between 1691 and 1694 the colonnades which linked the corps de logis to the wings on either side were replaced by four pavilions. These pavilions contained the new apartments of William III and Mary II, a new Dining Room, a Long Gallery and a Chapel. Queen Mary did not return to the Netherlands after 1689 and never saw the enlargement. On the death of King William III in 1702 there was disagreement about his inheritance, but eventually, in 1732, Het Loo descended to Willem IV (1711–1751) who was, from 1747, Stadtholder of all the provinces. Both Willem IV and his son Willem V (1748–1806) used the palace in the 18th century as a summer residence.

Demographics

As of 2020, Apeldoorn had a total population of 163,818 people.

Inhabitants by origin

Geography

Climate

Apeldoorn experiences an

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(

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''Cfb'') similar to almost all of the

Population centres

''Very small hamlets are printed in italics.'' *Apeldoorn (see below) *''

Assel Assel may refer to: * Assel, Gelderland, a hamlet in the Netherlands * Assel, Luxembourg, a village in Luxembourg * Assel River, a river in Russia {{disambiguation ...

'' *

: a village 6 km south of Apeldoorn *''Beemte-Broekland'', north of Apeldoorn *''Engeland'', west of Beekbergen *''Gerritsflesch'', nearby Radio Kootwijk *''Groenendaal'', along the A50 motorway Apeldoorn -

, 8 km south-west of Apeldoorn, situated next to the main road to Ede. Here is also an entrance to the

*'' Hoog Soeren'', situated amidst the

forest *''Hooilanden'' * Klarenbeek, east of Lieren, partially in the municipality of

Voorst Voorst () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. Population centres * Appen, Netherlands, Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken) * Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small l ...

Lieren Lieren is a village in the Netherlands and part of the municipality of Apeldoorn. It is situated about 8 km ( 5 miles) south-east of the city centre of Apeldoorn and 2 km east of Beekbergen. Despite its size, Lieren has a primary schoo ...

, this village, 5 km south-east of Beekbergen, has a castle ("Ter Horst"), a cardboard factory and an artificial "waterfall" *'' Nieuw-Milligen'', about 10 km in the direction of

, consists of an army training centre, some camping sites and some scattered houses and farms *''Oosterhuizen'' *''

Radio Kootwijk Radio Kootwijk is a hamlet in the Netherlands, Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn. It is situated in a heather and forest rich territory in the Veluwe region, east of the sandhills of the Kootwijkerzand and the town of Kootwijk. Radio Kootwijk has a c ...

'' *

Uddel Uddel is a village in the Netherlands, on the Veluwe, in the municipality of Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands. Uddel is located on the N310 from Elburg to Arnhem. The oldest mention of Uddel dates back to the year 792, as the settlement Uttilo ...

, a farmer's village 10 km north-west of Apeldoorn, where pigs and calves are raised; the majority of its population is known to belong to very orthodox Protestant Churches *

, formerly a village of its own, now an outer area of Apeldoorn, still having its own character * Wenum-Wiesel, with an old water-mill; situated 5 km north of Apeldoorn. Is actually made up of two villages, Wenum and Wiesel. *''Woudhuizen'', now at the eastern border of Apeldoorn. There is an outer area in Apeldoorn called "Woudhuis" and there is a small forest, called "Woudhuizer Bos" *''Zilven'', the northern edge of Loenen

Economy and infrastructure

Local businesses

, a Dutch insurance company, known for their advertisement slogan ''Even Apeldoorn bellen'' (''Just call Apeldoorn'') * Sparta B.V., a Dutch bicycle manufacturer based in Apeldoorn * Royal Talens, now multinational manufacturer of painter's colours

Public transport

There are four railway stations in Apeldoorn, these are: *

Apeldoorn Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. The municipality of Apeldoorn, including the villages of Beekbergen, Loenen (Apeldoorn), Loenen, Ugchelen and Hoenderloo ...

* Apeldoorn De Maten * Apeldoorn Osseveld * Klarenbeek The bus services in the city are provided by

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and has 18 lines.

Culture

Museums

* National Museum Het Loo Palace is a

palace A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome whi ...

built by the

* CODA, Apeldoorn historical museum and central library * Museum van de Kanselarij van de Nederlandse Ridderorden is a chancellery museum *

Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM) Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij () (VSM) is a Dutch heritage railway between Apeldoorn and Dieren. It passes through the villages of Lieren/ Beekbergen, Loenen, and Eerbeek. Rides on steam trains are popular with tourists visiting the region, a ...

is a Dutch heritage railway * Memorial Centre het Apeldoornsche Bosch commemorates the Jewish psychiatric institution where close to 1,300 patients and staff were deported to Auschwitz in the night of 21/22 January 1943. None of them returned.

Theater / cinema

* Theater Orpheus is among the five biggest theaters in the Netherlands * Podium Gigant has a pop podium and cinema with three screens *

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has seven screens

Education

Schools

* Veluws College Walterbosch, Apeldoorn * Koninklijke Hogere Burgerschool, Apeldoorn * Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn * Veluws College Mheenpark

Universities

Saxion University of Applied Sciences Saxion University of Applied Sciences () is a Dutch university of applied sciences with three campuses in the eastern Netherlands. It provides more than 100 courses in study fields as archaeology, finance, law, engineering, hospitality, business, ...

Theological University of Apeldoorn The Theological University of Apeldoorn (TUA) is the Dutch theological university of the Christian Reformed Churches (Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken). More than 130 students study at the university in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The theological co ...

* Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences

Sport

Until early 2013, Apeldoorn housed the professional football club

AGOVV Apeldoorn AGOVV () is a Dutch association football club based in Apeldoorn. It was established on 25 February 1913. The club played in professional football from 1954 to 1971 and from 2003 to 2013. AGOVV's men's first squad plays in 2024–25 in the Derde ...

(

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (; ) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the Keuken Kampioen Divisie due to sponsorship reasons, while ...

), that played its matches in the Stadion Berg & Bos in the western part of Apeldoorn. However, AGOVV was forced to declare bankruptcy on 8 January 2013, because of an €400,000 tax debt. In 1958 the AGOVV stadium was used to promote Dutch Rugby Football, by staging a match between an English touring XV Thomas Cook's Rugby Club and RC Hilversum in front of 2,671 spectators. It was a 3-points draw. See film clip of first overseas tour to Holland 1958 The present rugby club, Rams RFC, was founded in December 1971. The most successful club in Apeldoorn is the

SV Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the Sports associations (East Germany), sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Stasi, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East ...

volleyball team, who are the 15-fold champion in the Dutch A-League, most recently in 2023. Another successful volleyball club in Apeldoorn, and a big competitor to Dynamo, is

Alterno VV Alterno is a Dutch volleyball club based in Apeldoorn. It has professional and amateur teams (men, women, youth and sitting volleyball) with the women's team being the most successful and currently playing in the Eredivisie Dames, the highest l ...

. Because of the growth of Apeldoorn, and the population's interest in sports, Apeldoorn has built a new stadium for volleyball, indoor athletics and track cycling. The stadium,

Omnisport Apeldoorn The Omnisport Apeldoorn, also known as the Omnisportcentrum or simply called Omnisport, is a velodrome and multisport indoor arena in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects the facility opened in 2008, it is divided in ...

, opened in 2008 and has hosted the

2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was the World Championships for track cycling in 2011. The championships took place at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands from 23 to 27 March 2011. In January 2012 it was announced tha ...

and the

European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC) ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

and

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

. In 2016 the city hosted the opening time-trial stage of the

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. Apeldoorn houses the following football clubs: * AGOVV * Alexandria * Apeldoornse Boys * Columbia * CSV Apeldoorn * Groen−Wit '62 * Orderbos * Robur et Velocitas * Turkse Kracht Apeldoorn * Victoria Boys * WSV * ZVV '56

Notable people

Public servants

Piet de Jong Petrus Jozef Sietse "Piet" de Jong (; 3 April 1915 – 27 July 2016) was a Dutch politician and naval officer who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the Catholic People's Party (KVP), later merged ...

(1915–2016) a Dutch politician and

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1967/1971 * Willem van Zeist (1924–2016) a Dutch

archaeobotanist Paleoethnobotany (also spelled palaeoethnobotany), or archaeobotany, is the study of past human-plant interactions through the recovery and analysis of ancient plant remains. Both terms are synonymous, though paleoethnobotany (from the Greek words ...

and

palynologist Palynology is the study of microorganisms and microscopic fragments of mega-organisms that are composed of acid-resistant organic material and occur in sediments, sedimentary rocks, and even some metasedimentary rocks. Palynomorphs are the mic ...

Arend Lijphart Arend d'Angremond Lijphart (born 17 August 1936) is a Dutch-American political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He is Research Professor Emeritus ...

(born 1936) a political scientist *

Jr. (born 1939) the husband of

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (Margriet Francisca; born 19 January 1943) is the third daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard. As an aunt of the reigning monarch, King Willem-Alexander, she is a member of the Dutch Royal House a ...

Hanja Maij-Weggen Johanna Rika Hermanna "Hanja" Maij-Weggen (; ; born 29 December 1943) is a retired Dutch people, Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). Political career From 1989 until 1994 she was Ministry of Transport, Public Works and ...

(born 1943) a retired Dutch politician *

Jacques Wallage Jacques Wallage (; born 27 September 1946) is a retired Netherlands, Dutch politician of the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) and sociologist. Wallage attended a Gymnasium (school), Gymnasium in Groningen from April 1959 until M ...

(born 1946) a retired Dutch politician * Colonel

Thom Karremans Thomas Jakob Peter Karremans (born 29 December 1948) is the former commander of Dutchbat troops in Srebrenica at the time of the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War. Dutchbat had been assigned to defend the Bosniak The Bosniaks ...

(born 1948) the commander of

Dutchbat Dutchbat (short for "Dutch Battalion") was a Dutch battalion under the command of the United Nations in operation UNPROFOR. It was hastily formed out of the emerging 11th Airmobile Brigade between February 1994 and November 1995 to participate i ...

troops in Srebrenica *

Fred de Graaf Godefridus Jan "Fred" de Graaf (born 28 February 1950) is a retired Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and jurist. De Graaf a jurist by occupation, worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of the Interior fr ...

(born 1950) a retired Dutch politician, Mayor of Apeldoorn 1999/2011 * Mart de Kruif (born 1958) a three-star general in the

Royal Netherlands Army The Royal Netherlands Army (, KL) is the Ground warfare, land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Though the Royal Netherlands Army was raised on 9 January 1814, its origins date back to 1572, when the was raised making the Dutch standing a ...

and its executive commander. *

Marit Maij Marit Elisabeth Maij (; born 16 January 1972) is a Dutch people, Dutch politician, management consultant, diplomat, and civil servant. She was a member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives for the Labour Party ...

(born 1972) a Dutch politician, former management consultant, diplomat and civil servant

The arts

Patrick Bakker Patrick Bakker (12 November 1910 in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands – 28 December 1932 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch artist in oil paintings and pen or pastel drawings in the first half of the twentieth century. At the time of his death he was con ...

(1910–1932) a Dutch artist in oil paintings, pen and pastel drawings *

Berend Hendriks Berend Hendriks (Apeldoorn, July 9, 1918 – Arnhem, August 6, 1997) was a Dutch artist, and lecturer at the ArtEZ Academy of fine art in Arnhem. Together with Peter Struycken he initiated the Arnhem school of environmental art. Life and work ...

(1918–1997) a Dutch artist, co-founded the Arnhem school of environmental art *

Edgar Burcksen Edgar Burcksen (13 May 1947 – 7 April 2024) was a Dutch film editor, who moved to the United States in 1985 after editing over 15 films in the Netherlands. He was a member of the American Cinema Editors and was fluent in English, German, Frenc ...

(born 1947) a Dutch film editor * Jeroen Jongeleen (born 1967) a Dutch artist * Willem Bijkerk (born 1980) known professionally as Waylon is a Dutch singer * Julian Jordan (born 1995) a Dutch DJ, record producer and musician

Sport

* Nico de Wolf (1887–1967) a Dutch amateur footballer, bronze medallist in the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 6 July and 22 July 1912. The opening ceremony was he ...

* Ans Schut (born 1944) a former ice speed skater, gold medallist at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. The 1968 Winter Games marked the first time ...

Edward Sturing Edward Jeroen Sturing (born 13 June 1963) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Vitesse. Sturing played as a defender and earned three caps for the Netherlands national team. Career St ...

(born 1963) a Dutch former footballer with 452 caps *

Peter Bosz Peter Sylvester Bosz (, born 21 November 1963) is a Dutch professional Manager (association football), football manager and former Football player, player. He is currently the head coach of Dutch Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven. He had previously ...

(born 1963) a Dutch former footballer, current manager of

PSV Eindhoven Philips Sport Vereniging (; ), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven (), is a Dutch sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is best known for its professional association football, football department, which has pla ...

Mark Schenning Mark Schenning (born 18 October 1970) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He spent his entire career in the Netherlands, playing for clubs such as Go Ahead Eagles, Willem II, Den Bosch and NAC Breda. After retirement, S ...

(born 1970) a former Dutch professional footballer with 436 caps * Corine Dorland (born 1973) a Dutch amateur BMX racer from 1981 to 1996 *

Demy de Zeeuw Demy Patrick René de Zeeuw (born 26 May 1983) is a Dutch former professional association football, footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He previously played for AGOVV Apeldoorn, AGOVV, Go Ahead Eagles, AZ Alkmaar, AZ and AFC Ajax. W ...

(born 1983) a retired Dutch footballer with 306 caps *

Steven Berghuis Steven Berghuis (born 19 December 1991) is a Dutch professional association football, footballer who plays for Eredivisie club AFC Ajax, Ajax and the Netherlands national football team, Netherlands national team. He can play as either a Forward ...

(born 1991) a Dutch professional footballer * Kevin Diks (born 1996) a Dutch professional footballer

Business

Marc Bolland Marc Bolland (born 28 March 1959) is a Dutch businessman, who was the CEO of Marks & Spencer, after having been CEO of UK supermarket company Morrisons. Biography Early life He received a bachelor's degree from the Hotelschool The Hague, and ...

(born 1959) a Dutch businessman, who was the CEO of

Marks & Spencer Marks and Spencer plc (commonly abbreviated to M&S and colloquially known as Marks & Sparks or simply Marks) is a major British multinational retailer based in London, England, that specialises in selling clothing, beauty products, home produc ...

and CEO of

Morrisons Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited, trading as Morrisons, is the List of supermarket chains in the United Kingdom, fifth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. As of 2021, the company had 497 supermarkets across England, Wales and Sco ...

2009 car attack

On 30 April 2009, the Dutch national holiday

Koninginnedag () or King's Day is a national holiday in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Celebrated on 27 April (26 April if the 27th is a Sunday), the date marks the birth of King Willem-Alexander. When the Dutch monarch is female, the holiday is know ...

''(Queen's Day)'', a man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included

Queen Beatrix Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, ; born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal house who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Beatrix was born during the reign of her maternal gr ...

and other members of the Royal family. The driver hit members of the public lining the street leaving twenty-two injured and eight dead, including the driver himself, who died the following day. Although the Royal family was unharmed, it is believed to be the first attack on the Dutch royal family in modern times.

Twin towns – sister cities

Apeldoorn is twinned with: * Burlington, Canada * Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (Berlin), Germany *

Gagny Gagny () is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Geography Gagny is located 10 km to the east of Paris. Until the law of 10 July 1964, the commune was part of the department of Sein ...

, France

References

Citations

Sources

CBC Archives
– CBC Radio (22 April 1945) reporting on the famine in Apeldoorn and the inflation of

food prices Food prices refer to the average price level for food across countries, regions and on a global scale. Food prices affect producers and consumers of food. Price levels depend on the food production process, including food marketing and food di ...

External links

Official website
* {{Authority control Cities in the Netherlands Municipalities of Gelderland Populated places in Gelderland