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De Hoge Veluwe National Park (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈɦoːɣə ˈveːlyʋə]; "The High Veluwe") is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn. It is approximately 55 km 2 (14,000 acres; 21 sq mi) in area, consisting of heathlands, sand dunes, and woodlands.
The inn "De Woeste Hoeve" is located to the east of Hoenderloo and was built in 1771 along the road from Apeldoorn to Arnhem. [5] In March 1945, there was attempted assassination of Hanns Albin Rauter, the highest SS and Police Leader of the Netherlands, at De Woeste Hoeve. As a reprisal 117 people from various prisons were executed near De ...
The Veluwe is the largest push moraine complex in the Netherlands, stretching 60 km (40 miles) from north to south, and reaching heights of up to 110 metres (360'). The Veluwe was formed by the Saalian glacial during the Pleistocene epoch, some 200,000 years ago. Glaciers some 200 metres (600') thick pushed the sand deposits in the Rhine and ...
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In 1891 he married Anna Jessurun de Mesquita, the sister of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. From 1911–1925 he lived and worked in Laren, North Holland but then moved back to Amsterdam. In 1932 Helene Kröller-Müller commissioned him to design the impressive statue of her personal friend General Christiaan de Wet in the Hoge Veluwe National Park .
Christiaan de Wet monument, Hoge Veluwe, the Netherlands. De Wet distinguished himself in the Second Boer War and earned a reputation for bravery in the many battles that he fought in that conflict. [21] In the early 1920s, Irish republican leader Michael Collins was called "the Irish de Wet" by the British press. [22]