Bredevoort
Bredevoort (Low Saxon: Brevoort) 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
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Bredevoort Location in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands Bredevoort Bredevoort (Netherlands) | |
| Coordinates: 51°57′N 6°37′E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Gelderland |
| Municipality | Aalten |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.73 km2 (2.60 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 35 m (115 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 1,660 |
| • Density | 250/km2 (640/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7121 & 7126 |
| Dialing code | 0543 |
| Website | www.bredevoort.nu |
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.
Bredevoort was a Heerlijkheid and a separate municipality until 1818. The villages Aalten, Dinxperlo and Winterswijk included the fiefdom of Bredevoort when it became a part of Aalten in 1818.
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