Loenen, Apeldoorn
Loenen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Apeldoorn, about 10 km southeast of that city.
Loenen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Apeldoorn.[3]
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 World War II and were buried outside of the Netherlands.[4] There are close to 4,000 people buried at the cemetery[4]
In the centre is a chapel dedicated to the Engelandvaarders, the men and women who attempted to escape from the Netherlands to England, and a funerary urn containing earth from the concentration camps Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. In the back is the list of the 130,000 people whose remains have not been located.[5]
Notable people
- Willem Albert Scholten (1819–1895), industrialist and landowner[6]
References
- ^ a b "Apeldoorn in Cijfers" (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland: Viewer" (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. "KNAW > Publicaties > Detailpagina". Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
- ^ a b "Nationaal Ereveld Loenen". Foundation War Cemeteries (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ "Nationaal Ereveld Loenen". Historiek (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ "Willem Albert Scholten". Mijn Gelderland (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 March 2022.
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