Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten

Coordinates: 51°29′N 5°33′E / 51.483°N 5.550°E / 51.483; 5.550
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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten
De Roosdonck
in Nuenen
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
5670–5674
Area code040
Websitewww.nuenen.nl
Dutch Topographic map of Nuenen, June 2015

Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten (pronounced

Eindhoven University
(TUE) chose Nuenen as their new home.

Population centres

  • Eeneind
  • Gerwen
  • Nederwetten
  • Nuenen
  • Opwetten
  • Stad van Gerwen

History

A battle fought in Nuenen during

Operation Market-Garden
in September 1944.

Politics

Municipal government

As of the

2022 municipal election, The municipal council of Nuenen contains seven parties. As of 2018, the municipal executive consists of four coalition parties: W70 Nuenen, GreenLeft (GL), Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Naturally Nuenen (Socialist Party before), the latter of which has an independent Alderman
.

Party Seats
W70 Nunen [nl]
GreenLeft
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Democrats 66
Combination Nuenen c.a.
Christian Democratic Appeal
Lijst Pijs

Notable people

Water Mill at Opwetten, by Vincent van Gogh, 1884 (F48)

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) spent two years in Nuenen from 1883 to 1885. His father lived and worked there as the Protestant pastor in the largely catholic environment. Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastor's house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world. Van Gogh was extremely productive in his years in Nuenen. It is referred to as his so-called dark or sombre period. Here he painted his famous painting The potato eaters as well as Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen). The latter painting was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

Edsger Dijkstra

Technical University of Eindhoven, moved to a newly built house in Nuenen in 1964. Nuenen was added to the world map of computer science in 1973 when Dijkstra started to circulate his reports signed ‘Burroughs Research Fellow’ with his home address. Many thought that Burroughs, a company known at that time for the production of computers based on an innovative hardware architecture, was based in Nuenen. In fact, Dijkstra was the only research fellow of Burroughs Corporation and worked for it from home, occasionally travelling to its branches in the USA. Dijkstra moved in 1984 to the University of Austin, Texas
, USA, until his retirement in the autumn of 1999. Dijkstra returned from Austin, terminally ill, to his original house in Nuenen in February 2002, where he died half a year later, on 6 August 2002. [5]

Other notable people

Gallery

  • Vincent van Gogh standbeeld in Nuenen
    Vincent van Gogh standbeeld in Nuenen
  • Sint Clemenskerk Nuenen
    Sint Clemenskerk Nuenen
  • Soeterbeek
    Soeterbeek
  • Sint Clemenskerk Gerwen
    Sint Clemenskerk Gerwen
  • Overzicht - Opwetten
    Overzicht - Opwetten

References

  1. ^ "College van B en W" [Board of mayor and aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Postcodetool for 5671CK". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  5. ^ Krzysztof Apt. "OBITUARY: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002): A Portrait of a Genius" (PDF). Formal Aspects of Computing (2002) 14: 92–98. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  6. ^ IMDb Database retrieved 23 December 2019

External links

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