Renkum
# Renkum

Renkum (Dutch pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 31,417 in 2021 and has a land area of 45.95 $km^2$ (17.74 sq mi). Renkum is situated along the river Rhine. The municipality Renkum is part of the Stadsregio (English: City region) 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.

## History

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.

## Population centres

* Doorwerth
* Heelsum
* Heveadorp
* Oosterbeek
* Renkum (village)
* Wolfheze

### Topography

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Renkum, June 2015.

## Notable people from Renkum

* Nol Hendriks (1937 in Renkum - 2017), businessman and football executive
* Frank Versteegh (born 1954 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch aerobatics pilot
* Derk Bolt (born 1955 in Renkum) a Dutch TV presenter, editor and producer
* Lans Bovenberg (born 1958 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch economist and academic
* Stephan Brenninkmeijer (born 1964 in Doorwerth), a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and producer
* Eric Corton (born 1969 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch presenter, actor, author and DJ
* Constant Kusters (born 1970 in Oosterbeek), politician
* Bjorn Stenvers (born 1972) international museum director, grew up in Renkum
* Marianne Thieme (born 1972) a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist; grew up in Renkum
* Esmée Denters (born 1988) a Dutch singer and YouTube celebrity; grew up in Oosterbeek

### Sport

* Piet de Zwarte (born 1948 in Renkum), water polo player, bronze medallist at the 1976 Summer Olympics
* Marion Bultman (born 1960, in Oosterbeek) a Dutch sailor, competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics
* Ronald Koeman (born 1963) ex-footballer with 535 club caps, current coach of the Netherlands national football team, lived in Renkum
* Peter Hofstede (born 1967 in Oosterbeek) a retired football striker with 370 club caps
* Albertino Essers (born 1969 in Oosterbeek) a former Dutch professional darts player
* Rein Baart (born 1972 in Oosterbeek) a Dutch former footballer with 254 club caps
* Kay van Dijk (born 1984 in Renkum) a Dutch volleyball player, competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics
* Xan de Waard (born 1995 in Renkum), field hockey player, silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics

## Image gallery

* Castle Grunsfort (1638)
* Orange Nassau's Oord
* Oldest existing church of the Netherlands (Oosterbeek)
* War memorial in Oosterbeek
