Garderen is a village in the
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province of
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...
. It is located in the municipality of
Barneveld, in the forests of the
Veluwe
The Veluwe () is a forest-rich ridge of hills (1100 km2) in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many different landscapes, including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand drifts.
The Ve ...
. The village has 1,994 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2008).
Garderen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with
Barneveld.
Location
The village is located in an agricultural enclave on the west side of the Veluwe. It has been a tourist destination for a long time, owing to its bed & breakfasts with high-quality food, but it has always remained a conservative and religious village.
Services
Facilities in the village include a primary school, a medical practice, a cemetery, De Hoop windmill, various hotels, restaurants, cafes and snack bars, camping grounds, and basic shops. Several dozen other companies are located in the village.
The village contains several churches: a HHK (Restored Reformed Church) congregation, a reformed congregation within the PKN (Protestant Churches of the Netherlands), and a Continuing Reformed Church (Gereformeerde Kerk). Garderen center is an administrative center for the villages of Speuld, Stroe and Kootwijk. Residents of the surrounding neighborhoods of Houtdorp, Meerveld, Nieuw-Milligen and Koudhoorn have cultural and economic links to Garderen.
History
Garderen is older than the village of Barneveld and was originally the capital of the later city of Barneveld. The church of the
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...
was originally built in the eleventh century. The current tower dates from the fourteenth century. From 1812 to 1818 Garderen was an independent municipality with a separate administrative designation. After this it became part of the municipality of Barneveld.
Serbian monument
At the cemetery, there is a Serbian war memorial, in memory of 29 Serb soldiers who were killed by
Spanish flu
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shortly after the First World War. They were part of a large group of Serbian soldiers who were temporarily housed in the 'Lombok' barracks at the nearby Camp Milligen. Their remains were exhumed in 1938 and reinterred in a mausoleum in Jindřichovice. Renovation of the monument began In 2007, and an extension was gradually undertaken.
Gallery
Image:Monument Garderen.jpg, Serbian monument in Garderen
Image:Garderen kerk vanaf molen De Hoop.jpg, The church seen from the De Hoop (Hope) mill
File:IJssalon IJstijd Garderen P1370848.jpg, Ice cream parlour
File:Cafetaria De Driesprong P1370849.jpg, Snackbar
References
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Populated places in Gelderland
Former municipalities of Gelderland
Barneveld (municipality)