Nieuw-Wehl is a village in the eastern

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, about 10 km west of

Doetinchem Doetinchem (; Dutch Low Saxon, Low Saxon: ) is a city and Municipalities in the Netherlands, municipality in the east of the Netherlands. It is situated along the IJssel, Oude IJssel (Old IJssel) river in a part of the Provinces of the Netherland ...

. Before 1 January 2005, it was part of the municipality of Wehl, along with neighboring village

Wehl Wehl is a town in the eastern Netherlands, about 5 km west of Doetinchem. Wehl was a part of Prussia until 1808, when it was joined to the Netherlands. In those years it was officially a part of Zeddam. Wehl became an independent municipalit ...

. After the division, Nieuw-Wehl joined the municipality of Doetinchem. Nieuw-Wehl was first mentioned between 1830 and 1855 as "Achter Wehl", meaning behind

. It started to develop in the early 20th century. In 1925, a

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church was built. In 1933, the name officially changed to Nieuw-Wehl. The

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Bernadette was built in 1861 and restored in 1965 and 1998.

Gallery

File:NieuwWehl Bernadette 01.JPG, The File:Kapel Nieuw-Wehl 2.jpg, Chapel in Nieuw-Wehl

References

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