Mark Horner

History | Economy | Transport | Sport : Football | Transport : Cycling
🇳🇱 Almelo is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek. Almelo received city rights in 1394. Within the city limits lies the castle of the Counts of Almelo.

Located in the city centre is Huize Almelo, a castle that in its current form dates back to 1662 (This castle is not open to the public). There are mosaics which decorate the walls of the tunnel close to the railway station. The city is also known for its local association football club Heracles Almelo, which plays in the Eerste divisie, the second highest football league in the Netherlands. The club uses the Erve Asito.
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History At the end of the 19th century textile emerged as a major employer and drew many workers to Almelo, at first from within the Netherlands. Since the 1960s workers from Spain and Turkey came to Almelo. The first mosque of the Netherlands was built in Almelo in 1976 for the Turkish population of the city. Almelo also has a sizeable number of Armenians who built their own Armenian Apostolic Church in 2003.

In the 1970s the industry dwindled and most factories were relocated to countries with cheaper labour. Some factories remain in the city centre and are now in use for apartments or offices.
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Economy Currently, a major employer in Almelo is Urenco Nederland. This is a uranium enrichment plant which uses the gas centrifuge method and produces uranium with about five percent U-235, for nuclear reactors. An industrial bakery, Bolletje, Malvern Panalytical, the Stichting Ziekenhuisgroep Twente (a hospital) and the regional court are also major employers.
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Transport Almelo has 2 railway stations: • Almelo railway station • Almelo de Riet railway station

The main station is Almelo and offers links to Hengelo, Enschede, Amersfoort, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Utrecht, Gouda, Rotterdam, The Hague and Zwolle. There is also a train every 2 hours into Germany serving cities such as Osnabrück, Hannover and Berlin.
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Sport: Football Heracles Almelo, a professional football club playing in the Eerste Divisie is based in Almelo.
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Transport: Cycling Since 1983 Almelo has organised the Profronde van Almelo, an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event.
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Almelo, Provincie Overijssel, Netherlands

Image: Marcel350

Almelo has a population of over 72,000 people. Almelo also forms one of the centres of the wider Twente Region which has a population of over 620,000 people. It is also a part of the larger Overijssel Province.

To set up a UBI Lab for Almelo see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Almelo has links with:

🇹🇷 Denizli, Turkey 🇩🇪 Iserlohn, Germany 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Preston, England 🇦🇲 Vagharshapat, Armenia

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Judith Ledeboer |
🇳🇱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect/Furniture Designer Judith Ledeboer is associated with Almelo. She was secretary to the Dudley Committee and the Burt Committee, to raise construction standards for post-war housing.