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- This article is about the city in Overijssel, Netherlands.
For the town in Gelderland, Netherlands, see Hengelo,
Gelderland.
Two of the three large cities in East Overijssel: Almelo and
Hengelo
Hengelo (
pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a
town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel. The city lies
along the motorways A1/E30 and A35 and it has a station for the
International Amsterdam
- Hannover - Berlin service.
Population
centres
Traffic
and Transport
- Hengelo is easily reached by train. You can travel from Hengelo railway station, the
main station of Hengelo and get directly and regularly to:
Apeldoorn, Amersfoort, Hilversum, Southern Amsterdam, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol,
Utrecht, Gouda, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Zwolle, Zutphen, Oldenzaal, Almelo, Deventer, Enschede. There are international trains daily
to Bad Bentheim,
Rheine, Hannover, Berlin and once a day into Poland to Szczecin.
For information on the train services see Hengelo railway station. You
can also plan your journey on the website of Dutch
Railways[1]. For Amsterdam, you should use
the train to Schiphol and change at
Hilversum, where there are regular trains to Amsterdam Centraal
railway station, which is the nearest station to the city. At
Hilversum you can just cross to the opposite side of the
platform.
- Within the city limits, the only means of public transport is
the bus. Some parts of the route are
on bus
lanes, specifically built for buses to travel faster.
- The A1/E30 from Amsterdam to Moscow goes right through the
city.
- The A35 from Enschede
to Wierden goes along the
west side of the city.
- Hengelo has a relatively large harbour in the Twentekanaal, a
heavily used canal from the Twente region to the IJssel.
The town of
Hengelo
Although archeological research indicates the location has been
inhabited for thousands of years, the municipality was founded in
1802. At that time it merely consisted of a few hundred farms and
landworkers houses.
Hengelo was never granted city rights as it was
only a small village that expanded in the 19th Century during the
industrial revolution. In the late 19th century it rapidly
developed after the construction of an important railway junction.
This attracted industry with a focus on technology Stork B.V., Hazemeyer,
Heemaf, (now part of Eaton and Essent), KHZ (now AkzoNobel) and Hollandse
Signaal Apparaten, now taken over by the Thales Group. Hengelo
was the home town of Hengelo Bier, a local brewery.
During WWII the
city was often bombed by Allied because of the presence of the
railways and the war industry activities of local factories.
Accidentally the heart of the town was bombed out, during the
Bombing of Hengelo on the 6th and 7th of October 1944, killing
several hundred people. This has also left the city without much of
an historical centre.
One of the most prominent buildings is the Lambertusbasiliek, a
Roman Basilica built in
1890 devoted to H.
Lambertus.
Notable
events
- On February 11, 1992, a Dutch F16 crashed into the district
Hasseler Es.
- The Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip mention Hengelo
in their song "At the Hundredth Meridian", where they "remember
Hengelo" after a glorious gig in Metropool (concert hall in
Hengelo).
Twin
Cities
Education
Hengelo has 5 big highschools. These highschools are: The
Montessori College Twente, The Bataafs Lyceum, the Gilde College,
Grundel Lyceum and the Grundel Parkcollege. The total number of
schools in Hengelo is 269.
Notable people born in
Hengelo
References
- ^
NS.nl
External
links
Coordinates: 52°16′N 6°48′E / 52.267°N
6.8°E / 52.267;
6.8
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