Otterlo

Otterlo is a village in the municipality of Ede of province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, in or near the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe.

Otterlo
Village
Otterlo Reformed Church [nl]
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Coordinates: 52°6′1″N 5°46′21″E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Municipality	Ede
Area [1]
• Total	103.90 km2 (40.12 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	28 m (92 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	2,310
• Density	22/km2 (58/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6731[1]
Dialing code	0318
Website	otterlo.nl

The Kröller-Müller Museum, named after Helene Kröller-Müller, is situated nearby and has the world's second largest collection of Vincent van Gogh paintings.

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

History

Second World War

During the first four years of the war, Otterlo was relatively unharmed. The local resistance made use of a secret telephone connection from an electrician's house, which in 2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicate with the allies below the river Rhine (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families hid Jewish people from the Germans. One location was betrayed however, resulting in a raid in 1944 at the house 'De Lindenhof' at the Hoenderlooseweg.^[4]

During the liberation of Netherlands in April 1945, Otterlo was the center of a fierce and bloody battle between German and British and Canadian soldiers. See the Battle of Otterlo.