Angeren is a village in the municipality of
Lingewaard,
Gelderland
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province,
Netherlands
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. It has a population of 2,851 (1 January 2009), and is located in the very eastern tip of the
Betuwe, 2 km to the south of
Huissen, between the cities of
Arnhem
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and
Nijmegen.
Angeren is first mentioned as ''Angrina'' in a document dated 814 or 815. By 1160 Angeren was an independent
parish
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. During the
Middle Ages
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, Angeren grew to a village with a village square, a fortification ''('Het Roode Wald')'' and a flour mill.
The symbol of Angeren is ''Het Keuje'' ('The Pig') and there is a small statue of it in the centre of the town. The symbol refers to the historic dependency of Angeren on agriculture (mainly pig farms).
The local football club is S.V. Angeren. Their first squad plays in the 3rd division (Sunday amateurs – Eastern Region
KNVB).
The local tennis club is called TV Angeren.
Angeren is located at the
Linge, a small river that springs up in the nearby town of Doornenburg, and the
Pannerdens Kanaal, a canal linking the
Waal
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and the
Nederrijn.
The freight train route
Betuwelijn (opened in 2007) passes Angeren and crosses the Pannerdens Kanaal via a tunnel. Construction of the train route caused considerable protest in the village: on 4 April 2000 for example, a house that needed to be demolished was occupied by protesters who sat on the roof before being forced off by police.
This event caused substantial media coverage.
Gallery
File:Zicht op de Molenstraat in Angeren (Lingewaard).jpg, Street view
File:Angeren-tveld-06300015.jpg, Farm in Angeren
File:Angeren-kamervoort-05280002.jpg, Farm in Angeren
File:Exterieur OVERZICHT - Angeren - 20270767 - RCE.jpg, Stone factory (1988)
References
External links
*
Angeren op Nederland-in-beeld.nl
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Populated places in Gelderland
Lingewaard