🇳🇱 Renkum is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen. The surrounding of the municipality are mainly forest and river forelands. In the forest one can find tumulus of thousand years old. Findings from these tumulus can be seen in the Historic museum in Arnhem.
1History Renkum is more than a thousand years old. The thousand-year anniversary was celebrated in 1970. In the early days, the name was written as Redinchem. In the 19th century Renkum developed itself. There existed six paper mills, three water-cornmills and one water-oil mill. There were two factories, a treacle factory and a potato starch-flour factory. There was also a beer brewery and a tavern de Bok.
Nowadays there is still paper industry The company is Parenco B.V., acquired by H2 Equity Partners in 2012.
1Population centres • Doorwerth • Heelsum • Heveadorp • Oosterbeek • Renkum (village) • Wolfheze.
1Renkum has a population of over 31,302 people. Renkum also forms part of the wider Arnhem-Nijmegen metropolitan area which has a population of over 736,500 people. Renkum is situated 13 km west of Arnhem.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Renkum has links with:
🇩🇪 Dachau, Germany 🇵🇱 Dębno, Poland 🇧🇪 Tervuren, Belgium🏴 Letchworth Garden City 51.98
🏴 Tewkesbury 51.983
🇳🇱 Lansingerland 51.983
🇳🇱 Krimpenerwaard 51.983
🏴 Buckingham 51.995
🏴 Letchworth 51.976
🇩🇪 Bodenwerder 51.967
🇳🇱 Doetinchem 51.967
🇵🇱 Skierniewice 51.954
🇷🇺 Gorno-Altaysk 51.95
🇵🇱 Zielona Góra 51.942
🇳🇱 Capelle aan den IJssel 51.933
Locations Near: Renkum 5.74358,51.9773
🇳🇱 Overbetuwe 5.85,51.917 d: 9.9
🇳🇱 Arnhem 5.917,51.983 d: 11.9
🇳🇱 Nijmegen 5.859,51.842 d: 17
🇳🇱 Maashorst 5.667,51.7 d: 31.3
🇳🇱 Apeldoorn 5.967,52.217 d: 30.7
🇳🇱 Amersfoort 5.384,52.157 d: 31.7
Antipodal to: Renkum -174.256,-51.977
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🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15767.8
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15616.9
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🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11748
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11735.4
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