Everything about Nuenen Gerwen En Nederwetten totally explained
Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten is a
municipality consisting of the larger village of Nuenen and two adjacent smaller ones. It is located in the province of
Noord-Brabant, about 10 km east of
Eindhoven, the fifth largest city in the
Netherlands. From being a small farmers town of less than 1000 inhabitants around 1950 Nuenen grew steadily as ever more new employees of
Philips and the
Eindhoven University (TUE) chose Nuenen as their new home.
Population centres
Eeneind,
Gerwen,
Nederwetten,
Nuenen,
Opwetten and
Stad van Gerwen.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh spent two years in
Nuenen from
1883-
1885. His father lived and worked there as the Protestant pastor in the largely catholic environment. Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastors house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world. Van Gogh was extremely productive in his years in Nuenen. It is referred to as his so called dark or sombre period. Here he painted his famous painting
The potato eaters as well as
Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (
Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen). The latter painting was stolen from the
Van Gogh Museum in December
2002.
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch
computer scientist, died here on
August 6,
2002.
Fictional depictions
A battle fought in Nuenen during
World War II was fictionalized in an episode of the miniseries
Band of Brothers. The historical battle took place there during
Operation Market-Garden in September, 1944.
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