Renkum is a village in the

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Renkum Renkum () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in and has a land area of . Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of th ...

. In the early days, the name of the village was written as ''Redinchem''. In the 19th century, Renkum developed itself. There existed six

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, three water-cornmills and one water-oil mill. There were two factories, a

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factory and a potato starch-flour factory. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, Renkum was involved in the Battle of Arnhem.

Notable people from Renkum

Derk Bolt Derk Bolt (born 24 May 1955) is a Dutch television presenter, editor and producer. He was born in Renkum. After studying journalism (a program which he did not finish) in Utrecht, Bolt started his career at the late night actualities daily radio ...

(born 1955 in Renkum) a Dutch TV presenter, editor and producer IMDb Database
retrieved 02 December 2019 *

Kay van Dijk Kay van Dijk (born 25 June 1984) is a Dutch professional volleyball player, a member of Netherlands men's national volleyball team in 2003-2013 and Persian club Peykan Tehran volleyball club, a participant of the Olympic Games Athens 2004, a sil ...

(born 1984 in Renkum) a Dutch volleyball player, competed in the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

Nol Hendriks Arnold (Nol) Hendriks (15 May 1937 – 21 October 2017) was a Dutch businessman and football executive. Business career Born in Renkum, he moved to Limburg with his parents when his father started working in the mines in Heerlen. He later worked ...

(1937, born in Renkum), businessman and football executive *

Bjorn Stenvers Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian languages , Scandinav ...

(1972, grew up in Renkum), international museum director *

Xan de Waard Xan de Waard (born 8 November 1995) is a Dutch field hockey player. De Waard has played 150 international matches for the Netherlands women's national field hockey team. She was a member of the Dutch team that won the 2014 Women's Hockey World C ...

(1995, born in Renkum), field hockey player *

Piet de Zwarte Pieter ("Piet") Karel de Zwarte (born 16 February 1948) is a former Dutch water polo player, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. See also * List of Olympic medalists in wat ...

(1948, born in Renkum), water polo player

References

Populated places in Gelderland Renkum {{Gelderland-geo-stub