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Loenen, Apeldoorn

Village in Gelderland, Netherlands

52°6′59″N 6°1′8″E / 52.11639°N 6.01889°E / 52.11639; 6.01889CountryNetherlandsProvinceGelderlandMunicipalityApeldoornArea

^[1]

• Village36.9 km² (14.2 sq mi) • Urban

1.2 km² (0.5 sq mi)Elevation

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25 m (82 ft)Population

(1 January 2015)^[1]

• Village3,066 • Density83/km² (220/sq mi) • Urban

2,116Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postcodes

7370 and 7371

Area code055

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]

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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.