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
Village
Loenen, catholic church
Location of Loenen in the municipality of Apeldoorn (the urban area of Loenen is red and the rural area is pink)
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Coordinates: 52°6′59″N 6°1′8″E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Municipality	Apeldoorn
Area [1]
• Village	36.9 km2 (14.2 sq mi)
• Urban	1.2 km2 (0.5 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (1 January 2015)[1]
• Village	3,066
• Density	83/km2 (220/sq mi)
• Urban	2,116
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcodes	7370 and 7371
Area code	055

Loenen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Apeldoorn.^[3]

National Cemetery of Honours

Chapel at Loenen

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

1. "Apeldoorn in Cijfers" (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 October 2015.
2. "Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland: Viewer" (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 October 2015.
3. 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.
4. "Nationaal Ereveld Loenen". Foundation War Cemeteries (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
5. "Nationaal Ereveld Loenen". Historiek (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
6. "Willem Albert Scholten". Mijn Gelderland (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 March 2022.

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