Bredevoort

Bredevoort (Low Saxon: ) is a small city with city privileges of about 1600 inhabitants in the municipality of Aalten, Netherlands. It is between the towns of Aalten and Winterswijk.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Bredevoort
Settlement.image_skyline: Bredevoort collage.jpg
Settlement.image_size: 250
Settlement.image_flag: Flag Bredevoort.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Bredevoort coat2.svg
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Gelderland
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Aalten
Settlement.pushpin_map: Netherlands Gelderland#Netherlands
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands
Settlement.elevation_m: 35
Settlement.area_total_km2: 6.73
Settlement.population_total: 1,660
Settlement.population_as_of: 2021

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Ontdek Bredevoort: historisch vestingstadje in de Achterhoek

Sinds 27 augustus 1993 is Bredevoort de Nationale Boekenstad, maar deze stad is ook geboorteplaats van Henrickje Stoffels, de geliefde van Rembrandt van Rijn

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Bredevoort (Low Saxon: ) is a small city with city privileges of about 1600 inhabitants in the municipality of Aalten, Netherlands. It is between the towns of Aalten and Winterswijk.

Bredevoort has presented itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium. There are now more than 20 second-hand book shops in the town.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bredevoort” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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