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Aalten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈaːltə(n)] (listen)) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The former municipalities of Bredevoort (1818) and Dinxperlo (2005) have been merged with Aalten.

Aalten
Municipality
Aalten town hall
Flag
Coat of arms
Location in Gelderland
Aalten
Aalten
Aalten
Coordinates: 51°56′N 6°35′E
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceGelderland
Government
[1]
 • BodyMunicipal council
 • MayorAnton Stapelkamp (CU)
Area
[2]
 • Total97.05 km2 (37.47 sq mi)
 • Land96.54 km2 (37.27 sq mi)
 • Water0.51 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Elevation
[3]
31 m (102 ft)
Highest elevation
[4]
41 m (135 ft)
Population
 (January 2019)[5]
 • Total27,011
 • Density280/km2 (700/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Aaltenaar
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
7090–7095, 7120–7126
Area code0315, 0543
Websitewww.aalten.nl
Topographic map of Aalten, June 2015
Topographic map of Aalten, June 2015

Notable inhabitants of Aalten include Angus Young, guitarist of the Australian rock band AC/DC, and Robert Gesink, a professional road bicycle racer. During World War II, 51 of Aalten's 85 Jews were hidden by local non-Jews, and thereby survived the war.[6] According to the War and Resistance Museum in Aalten, the village had the highest number of people in hiding during World War II. The village of approximately 13,000 residents hid some 2,500 people.[7]


Population centres



Transportation


Aalten railway station serves Aalten and the surrounding area. There is a half-hourly service between Arnhem and Winterswijk, which stops at this station. Arnhem railway station has services to Amsterdam, Amsterdam Airport, Utrecht, Nijmegen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Tilburg and to cities in Germany.

Aalten also has an hourly bus service to Ruurlo and to Zelhem.


Notable people





References


  1. "Samenstelling college burgemeester en wethouders" [Mayor and Municipal Executive] (in Dutch). Gemeente Aalten. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  2. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. "Postcodetool for 7121CS". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  4. "Omgeving". 't Zondagsschoolhuusken.
  5. "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  6. Martin Gilbert, 'The Holocaust' (1986), page 376,
  7. http://www.marline.nl/verzet.html Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine 'Marline: de infozine v/d Achterhoek'



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[de] Aalten

Aalten ( anhören?/i) ist eine im Osten der Niederlande gelegene Gemeinde. Sie befindet sich im Achterhoek in der Provinz Gelderland unmittelbar an der Grenze zum deutschen Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen. Aalten lebt vor allem von der Landwirtschaft, dem Kleingewerbe und dem Tourismus. Es hat einen Bahnhof an der Bahnstrecke Winterswijk–Zevenaar–Arnheim, betrieben von Arriva. Von den früher hier befindlichen drei Burgen ist nur das Walfort erhalten.
- [en] Aalten

[ru] Алтен

Алтен (нидерл. Aalten) — община в Нидерландах в провинции Гелдерланд. Административный центр — Алтен. Община Алтен расположена непосредственно на границе с Германией.


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