Aalten

Aalten
Aalten
Municipality
	Aalten town hall
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location in Gelderland
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	Coordinates: 51°56′N 6°35′E / 51.933°N 6.583°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Government
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Anton Stapelkamp (CU)
Area
• Total	97.05 km2 (37.47 sq mi)
• Land	96.54 km2 (37.27 sq mi)
• Water	0.51 km2 (0.20 sq mi)
Elevation	31 m (102 ft)
Highest elevation	41 m (135 ft)
Population (January 2021)
• Total	27,120
• Density	281/km2 (730/sq mi)
Demonym	Aaltenaar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	7090–7095, 7120–7126
Area code	0315, 0543
Website	www.aalten.nl

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

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]

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

Hendrickje Stoffels (1626 in Bredevoort – 1663) the longtime partner of Rembrandt
J.T. Wamelink (1827 in Aalten – 1900) a prominent musician and composer in Cleveland, Ohio
Vinus van Baalen (1942 in Dinxperlo – 2012) a Dutch swimmer, competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Nout Wellink (born 1943 in Bredevoort) a Dutch economist and former central banker

Gallery

References

^ "Samenstelling college burgemeester en wethouders" [Mayor and Municipal Executive] (in Dutch). Gemeente Aalten. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Postcodetool for 7121CS". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
^ "Omgeving". 't Zondagsschoolhuusken.
^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
^ Martin Gilbert, 'The Holocaust' (1986), page 376,
^ http://www.marline.nl/verzet.html Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine 'Marline: de infozine v/d Achterhoek'