Beuningen

East of Beuningen lies the city Nijmegen. Beuningen had a population of in popbaseyear. There is a restored windmill in the town, De Haag.

• Name — Beuningen • Type — Municipality • Flag Size — 100x67px • Image Shield — Beuningen wapen.svg • Shield Size — 100x80px • Image Map — Map - NL - Municipality code 0209 (2009).svg • Map Alt — Highlighted position of Beuningen in a municipal map of Gelderland • Map Caption — Location in Gelderland • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Netherlands • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Gelderland • Governing Body — Municipal council • Leader Party — D66 • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Daphne Bergman (acting) • Unit Pref — Metric • Area Total Km2 — Beuningen • Area Land Km2 — Beuningen • Area Water Km2 — Beuningen • Elevation M — 9 • Population Total — Beuningen • Population As Of — popbasemonth popbaseyear • Population Density Km2 — Beuningen • Population Demonym — Beuninger • Time Zone — CET • Utc Offset — +1 • Time Zone Dst — CEST • Utc Offset Dst — +2 • Postal Code Type — Postcode • Postal Code — 6550–6551, 6640–6645 • Area Code Type — Area code • Area Code — 024, 0487 • Website — 1=http: www.beuningen.nl Beuningen (Nl-Beuningen.ogg) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality consists of the towns Beuningen, Ewijk, Winssen and Weurt. 1.5 km to the north lies the river Waal Beuningen lies adjacent to the A73 (Nijmegen-Venlo, on the south side) and A50 (Zwolle-Eindhoven, in the west) motorway interchange. East of Beuningen lies the city Nijmegen. Beuningen had a population of in popbaseyear. There is a restored windmill in the town, De Haag.

The area in and around Beuningen was inhabited by the Romans. There are regularly excavations done in which Roman rests are found. In the 15th century there stood a small castle: Blanckenburgh. It was probably destroyed during the Eighty Years' War by Maurice of Orange. Until about 1900 Beuningen was a poor farmers village, often struck by floods. Nevertheless, there were a few rich families, mostly farmers with a lot of land, who paid the highest tax in the area. On 1 January 1818 the municipality annexed the town of Weurt to the east, and on 1 July 1980 the town of Ewijk to the west. Nowadays Beuningen has grown to a suburb of Nijmegen, with a lot of new neighbourhoods.

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

There are several monuments in Beuningen. Here are a few (in chronological order):

• Willem Joseph baron van Ghent tot Drakenburgh (1626 in Winssen – 1672) a 17th-century Dutch admiral • Willie Smits (born 1957, in Weurt) a trained forester, microbiologist, conservationist, animal rights activist, wilderness engineer and social entrepreneur in Borneo • Bas van Bemmelen (born 1989 in Beuningen) a volleyball player with the Netherlands men's national volleyball team

• Illustration — Beuningen, church: de Corneliuskerk • Illustration — Beuningse Uiterwaarden during high water in the Waal • Illustration — Sculptuur made by Ronald Tolman in Beuningen • Illustration — Artwork 'De Cirkel' by Anneke van Bergen on roundabout in Beuningen • Illustration — Ewijk, tower: the Oude Toren • Illustration — Ewijk, Beuningen, scheepvaart op de Waal • Illustration — Weurt, Beuningen • Illustration — Winssen, medieval church tower