Bredevoort
Bredevoort | |||
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City | |||
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Bredevoort Location within the Netherlands | |||
Coordinates: 51°57′0″N 6°37′0″E / 51.95000°N 6.61667°E / 51.95000; 6.61667 | |||
Country | Netherlands | ||
Province | Gelderland | ||
Municipality | Aalten | ||
Population (1 January 2008) | |||
• Total | 1,525 | ||
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | ||
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | ||
Website | www.bredevoort.nu |
Bredevoort or Brevoort (Low Saxon) is a small city with Town privileges of about 1600 inhabitants, located in the municipality of Aalten, Netherlands. It is situated between the towns of Aalten and Winterswijk.
Bredevoort has presented itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium. There are now more than twenty second-hand book shops in the town.
Bredevoort was a herrschaft and a separate municipality until 1818. The villages Aalten, Dinxperlo and Winterswijk included the Fiefdom of Bredevoort when it became a part of Aalten in 1818.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Sights
3 Transportation
4 Gallery
5 References
6 External links
History
The name Bredevoort appears for the first time on a list of properties belonging to the archbishop of Cologne in 1188, who owned shares of the castle Bredevoort. When the count of Steinfurt tried to sell his share of the castle to the bishop of Munster and the count of Loon tried to sell his share to the count of Gelderland, a conflict broke out between the bishop and the count of Gelderland. The fight lasted for almost two centuries.
From 1326, after 4 years of battle between Reginald II, Duke of Guelders and Ludwig von Hessen
Sights
- St. Joriskerk, Gothic Church with rococo chair from 1672
- Windmill De Prins van Oranje
- Historic centre
- 19th century theehouse at the town ditch
- remains from the 17th century city gate
Transportation
Aalten railway station is the nearest station. There is a half-hourly service between Arnhem and Winterswijk, which stops at this station. Arnhem railway station has half-hourly (or more) services to Amsterdam, Utrecht, Nijmegen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Tilburg and Alkmaar. If you travel to Winterswijk, you can then change onto a connecting train to Zutphen. From Zutphen you can travel to Apeldoorn, Dieren, Hengelo, Deventer and Zwolle.
To get to the station you can use bus service 191, which travels from Aalten station to Bredevoort and Lichtenvoorde.
Gallery
References
^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2006.
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ISBN 90-900213-5-3 (first edition 1988)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bredevoort. |
- Official website
- Bredevoort booktown
- windmill Prins van Oranje
- Gondola festival in Bredevoort
- Heerlijkheid Bredevoort, with historic items
Reconstructions old Bredevoort'
Coordinates: 51°57′N 6°37′E / 51.950°N 6.617°E / 51.950; 6.617