West Betuwe

West Betuwe
Municipality
Geldermalsen
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Gelderland
Coordinates: 51°53′N5°17′E / 51.88°N 5.28°E / 51.88; 5.28
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Established	1 January 2019
Government
• Body	Municipal council
•  Mayor	Servass Stoop (SGP)
Area [1]
• Total	229.12 km2 (88.46 sq mi)
• Land	216.12 km2 (83.44 sq mi)
• Water	13.00 km2 (5.02 sq mi)
Population  (July 2019) [2]
• Total	50,958
• Density	235.79/km2 (610.68/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.westbetuwe.nl

West Betuwe is a municipality in the Dutch province of Gelderland. West Betuwe had 51.948 inhabitants on 1 January 2022.

The municipality was formed on 1 January 2019 by the merger of the municipalities Geldermalsen, Neerijnen, Lingewaal.

Topography

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of West Betuwe, 2018

Notable people

Johannes van den Bosch, 1829

• Dirk Willems (born in Asperen - died 1569) a Dutch martyred Anabaptist
• Cornelius Jansen (1585 in Acquoy – 1638) the Catholic Bishop of Ypres, father of Jansenism ^[3]
• Johannes, Count van den Bosch (1780 in Herwijnen – 1844) an officer and politician; Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1830–1833
• Jan Karel van den Broek (1814 in Herwijnen – 1865) a physician based at Nagasaki, in Bakumatsu
• Otto Willem Arnold baron van Verschuer (1927 in Beesd – 2014) a Dutch politician

Sport

• Jan Kleyn (1925 in Asperen – 2009) a sprinter, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Hendrik Pieter de Jongh (born 1970 in Asperen) a football manager and former player
• Léon van Bon (born 1972 in Asperen) a retired road racing cyclist, silver medallist at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Selma Poutsma (born 1999) from Deil, a speed skater and gold medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Gallery

• 
  Gellicum, church: the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Geboortekerk
• 
  Herwijnen, Radar
• 
  Deil, reformed church
• 
  Deil, windmill: molen de Vlinder
• 
  Ophemert, view to the village
• 
  Acquoy, church
• 
  Beesd, church
• 
  Varik, windmill
• 
  Nieuwe Zuiderlingedijk Keersluisje
• 
  Water level recording shed

References

1. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
2. "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
3. "Jansen, Cornelius"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1911.

External links

Media related to West Betuwe at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website