Gelderland, Netherlands · Europe
Kootwijkerbroek is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Westeneng, 16km from Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Kootwijkerbroek is in Gelderland, Netherlands, with about 1,700 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Westeneng, about 4 km away.
Kootwijkerbroek is a village in the Netherlands, on the Veluwe, in the municipality of Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands. The village, situated in the Gelderland Valley, east of Barneveld, has a major agricultural role in this part of the valley with most of the 157 companies located in Kootwijkerbroek involved inRead more
agriculture and industry. Kootwijkerbroek is an old village just between Kootwijk and Barneveld, with many generations traditionally involved in milling. The last mill burnt down in 1964, however it was rebuilt in 2015. On the edge of the village, there is a church with a beautiful old vicarage surrounded by an attractive garden park with ponds.
Kootwijkerbroek is a conservative Protestant village, located on the Dutch Bible Belt. In the 2010 municipal elections, 52 percent of the local population voted for the Reformed Political Party (SGP). The three Christian parties in the elections (the Reformed Political Party, the ChristianUnion and the Christian Democratic Appeal) had a combined total of almost 70 percent of the votes. Many of the socio demographic indicators reflect the conservative nature of the community, with relatively larger household families with young children and low divorce rates.
Hundreds of farmers protested in 2001 in the village of Kootwijkerbroek. They tried to prevent the slaughter of healthy cattle as a result of foot-and-mouth disease restrictions. The farmers never accepted the verdict by the authorities that the disease had spread to the 'Teunissen' farm, as the alleged outbreak never spread beyond the suspected veal calf operation. In every other outbreak location in 2001, other surrounding farms were infected with animals showing evidence of the infection. The blockade involved about 200 farmers and was the largest protest related to the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the Netherlands.
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Within an hour or so of Kootwijkerbroek: Kröller-Müller Museum (12 km), Hoge Veluwe National Park (16 km), Posbank (28 km), Walibi Holland (33 km).
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Afsluitdijk and Brouwersdam.
Kootwijkerbroek is in Gelderland, Netherlands, about 4 km from Westeneng.
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museum
Museum deep inside Hoge Veluwe National Park holding the world's second-largest Van Gogh collection plus a 25-hectare sculpture garden with Rodin, Moore and Dubuffet; free white bicycles carry you there through the park.
12 km · about 20 min drive
national park
Cycle free white bikes across heath, dune and forest to the Kröller-Müller museum's Van Goghs in this vast wild park.
16 km · about 20 min drive
photogenic
Rolling heathland hills of Veluwezoom National Park reached by a scenic drive up the Beekhuizenseweg, in late August the moors turn purple, and misty sunrises here are the most photographed in the Netherlands.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Dutch thrill park near Amsterdam known for intense roller coasters and a fun Halloween Fright Nights event.
33 km · about 40 min drive
museum
Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.
36 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' tallest church tower at 112 metres, standing detached from its cathedral in central Utrecht.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
The best-preserved star fortification town in Europe, a double-moated six-pointed star of 17th-century ramparts enclosing a grid of gabled streets, 25 minutes from Amsterdam yet ignored by most itineraries.
38 km · about 45 min drive
castle
A moated red-brick medieval fortress at the mouth of the Vecht, one of the best-preserved castles in the Netherlands.
45 km · about 50 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
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