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Renkum

Renkum (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛŋkʏm] ) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 31,417 in 2021 and has a land area of 45.95 km2 (17.74 sq mi). Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the Stadsregio (English: City region) Arnhem-Nijmegen.

Key Information

The surrounding of the municipality are mainly forest and river forelands. In the forest one can find tumulus of thousand years old. Findings from these tumulus can be seen in the Historic museum in Arnhem.[6]

History

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Renkum is over a thousand years old. The thousand-year anniversary was celebrated in 1970. In the early days, the name was written as Redinchem. In the 19th century Renkum developed itself. Six paper mills, three water-cornmills and one water-oil mill were in operation. There were two factories, a treacle factory and a potato starch-flour factory. There was also a beer brewery and a tavern de Bok.

Nowadays there is still paper industry The company is Parenco B.V., acquired by H2 Equity Partners in 2012.

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Topography

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Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Renkum, June 2015.

Notable people from Renkum

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Esme Denters, 2009
  • Nol Hendriks (1937 in Renkum - 2017), businessman and football executive
  • Frank Versteegh (born 1954 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch aerobatics pilot
  • Derk Bolt (born 1955 in Renkum) a Dutch TV presenter, editor and producer [7]
  • Lans Bovenberg (born 1958 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch economist and academic
  • Stephan Brenninkmeijer (born 1964 in Doorwerth), a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and producer [8]
  • Eric Corton (born 1969 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch presenter, actor, author and DJ [9]
  • Constant Kusters (born 1970 in Oosterbeek), politician
  • Bjorn Stenvers (born 1972) international museum director, grew up in Renkum
  • Marianne Thieme (born 1972) a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist; grew up in Renkum
  • Esmée Denters (born 1988) a Dutch singer and YouTube celebrity; grew up in Oosterbeek

Sport

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Ronald Koeman, 2014
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