Beuningen
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Beuningen lies adjacent to the A73 (Nijmegen-Venlo, on the south side) and A50 (Zwolle-Eindhoven, in the west) motorway interchange. East of Beuningen lies the city Nijmegen. Beuningen had a population of Template:Dutch municipality population in Template:YEAR. There is a restored windmill in the town, De Haag.
Population centres
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History
The area in and around Beuningen was inhabited by the Romans. There are regularly excavations done in which Roman rests are found. In the 15th century there stood a small castle: Blanckenburgh. It was probably destroyed during the Eighty Years' War by Maurice of Orange. Until about 1900 Beuningen was a poor farmers village, often struck by floods. Nevertheless, there were a few rich families, mostly farmers with a lot of land, who paid the highest tax in the area. On 1 January 1818 the municipality annexed the town of Weurt to the east, and on 1 July 1980 the town of Ewijk to the west.
Nowadays Beuningen has grown to a suburb of Nijmegen, with a lot of new neighbourhoods.
Topography
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Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Beuningen, June 2015.
Monuments
There are several monuments in Beuningen. Here are a few (in chronological order): Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
See also
Notable people
- Willem Joseph baron van Ghent tot Drakenburgh (1626 in Winssen – 1672) a 17th-century Dutch admiral
- Willie Smits (born 1957, in Weurt) a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur in Borneo
- Bas van Bemmelen (born 1989 in Beuningen) a volleyball player with the Netherlands men's national volleyball team
Gallery
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Beuningen, church: de Corneliuskerk
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Beuningse Uiterwaarden during high water in the Waal
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Sculptuur made by Ronald Tolman in Beuningen
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Artwork 'De Cirkel' by Anneke van Bergen on roundabout in Beuningen
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Ewijk, tower: the Oude Toren
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Ewijk, Beuningen, scheepvaart op de Waal
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Weurt, Beuningen
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Winssen, medieval church tower
References
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