Lichtenvoorde

Lichtenvoorde

Lichtenvoorde

Town in Gelderland, Netherlands

Lichtenvoorde is a town in the east of the Netherlands, in the municipality of Oost Gelre.

Quick Facts Country, Province ...

Lichtenvoorde holds a flower parade (bloemencorso) every September at the start of its annual festival. The parade features floats covered in flowers (usually dahlias) in imaginative designs depicting a variety of themes.

Lichtenvoorde has a motorcross circuit on which international grands prix are held.

History

Lichtenvoorde was the name of a municipality that included the town and the villages of Lievelde, Zieuwent, Vragender and Harreveld, until 1 January 2005, when all were merged into the municipality of Oost Gelre.

Its inhabitants are known colloquially as keienslöppers (boulder draggers) due to a historic event. On 15 March 1874, 99 of the town's shoemakers dragged a 20 ton boulder a distance of around four kilometres to the marketplace to serve as a centerpiece for commemoration of King William III's silver jubilee, after 25 years on the country's throne. The boulder remains there to this day, topped by a stone lion holding the town's coat of arms.

  • The boulder in the marketplace
  • Catholic church in Lichtenvoorde
  • Farm at the open-air museum Erve Kots in Lievelde
  • Catholic church in Zieuwent
  • Vragender Village
  • Windmill Hermien in Harreveld

References

  1. [1]
    "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Postcodetool for 7131AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Lichtenvoorde, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.