Loenen is a village in the Dutch province of

Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Nethe ...

. It is located in the municipality of

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 ...

, about 10 km southeast of that city. Loenen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Apeldoorn.

National Cemetery of Honours

Near the village of Loenen is the National Cemetery of Honours (''Nationaal Ereveld Loenen''), In 1948, it was decided to create a national cemetery of honours for the resistance fighters, political prisoners, and soldiers who died during

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and were buried outside of the

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. There are close to 4,000 people buried at the cemetery In the centre is a chapel dedicated to the Engelandvaarders, the men and women who attempted to escape from the Netherlands to

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, and a

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containing earth from the concentration camps

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and

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. In the back is the list of the 130,000 people whose remains have not been located.

Notable people

* Willem Albert Scholten (1819–1895), industrialist and landowner

References

Populated places in Gelderland Former municipalities of Gelderland World War II cemeteries in the Netherlands Apeldoorn {{Gelderland-geo-stub