Renkum

Renkum
Renkum
	— Municipality —
	Townhall of the Municipality of Renkum
; Flag	; Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 51°58′N 5°44′E / 51.967°N 5.733°ECoordinates: 51°58′N 5°44′E / 51.967°N 5.733°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
	Area(2006)
• Total	47.12 km2 (18.19 sq mi)
• Land	46.02 km2 (17.77 sq mi)
• Water	1.11 km2 (0.43 sq mi)
	Population (1 January 2007)
• Total	31,640
• Density	688/km2 (1,780/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

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Renkum is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality has 31.801 inhabitants (31 May 2009, Source: CBS) and has a land area of 47,12 km². 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^[1]

[edit] History

Renkum is more than thousand years old. In 1970 the thousand-year anniversary was celebrated. In the early days, the name was witten 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 Norske Skog Parenco B.V..