Information about the City of Arnhem
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Name of the city
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Mayor
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Mrs. Pauline Krikke
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Year of foundation
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1233
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Location
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Capital of the
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Altitude
Latitude
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12 metres
51˚ 58’ 60 N - 5° 55’ 0 E
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Area
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10.153 HA
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Population
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143.000
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Average age
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Universities
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ArtEZ – Art University (www.artez.nl)
Radboud University Nijmegen (www.ru.nl)
Wageningen University (www.wau.nl)
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Industry
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This region is generally recognized as one of
A number of (inter)national well known companies have chosen the Arnhem region as their home base, such as Akzo Nobel, BASF, Ohra, Vitatron, Teijin Twaron, Kema, Arcadis, Essent, Novartis, SITA and Heinz.
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Opportunities for investors
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For international personnel Arnhem offers a well equiped International School (primary and secundary).
The advantages to select Arnhem for investments are diversity and quality of available business sites, the strategic location and accessibility, high education and language skills of the workforce, and a variety of hotel and conference facilities. Arnhem is planning to establish a World Trade Center (WTC) in the centre of the city and will offer international entrepreneurs a high quality business environment.
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Other specific characteristics
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Arnhem is a varied “green city” where people like to live, work and recreate.
Popular are the elegant historical residential areas north of the Rhine river, but also the architectural designed housing projects south of the Rhine.
The beautiful city parks (Sonsbeek) and the largest National Park in the vicinity of the city are testimonials of Arnhem’s status “Green City”.
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Cultural relics and monuments
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The John Frost City Bridge over the Rhine river played a cruxial role during the 2nd World War (Battle of Arnhem, 1944). Although a major part of the city centre was destroyed during the war, there are still many relics and monuments in and around the city to visit. The Eusebius Tower is open for public and a elevator will bring you to the top to overview the “green city”, the Rhine river and bridges.
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Sports possibilities
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All kinds of sports are popular amongst the Arnhem youth (unfortunately there is no Ice Hockey)
The Gelredome is the multi-functional football-stadium and (music)theatre. Home of Vitesse, the Arnhem football club in the Dutch top league.
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Tourism
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Tourism is playing a key role in the economy of Arnhem and surroundings. Large-scale amusement parks north of the city, such as the Dutch Open Air Museum (www.openluchtmuseum.nl), the famous Zoo (www.burgerszoo.nl), and the Kröller-Müller Museum with many paintings of Vincent van Gogh (www.kmm.nl), will bring many visitors to Arnhem
every year.
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Infrastructure and accessibility
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The strategic position of the Arnhem region between the Randstad (Amsterdam/Rotterdam area) and the European hinterland (German Ruhr area) is and will be very profitable in the future.
The new architectural railway station (under construction) offers already high speed train connections to Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
The most important motorway A 12 passes Arnhem at the City border and there is easy access to the international airports of Schiphol/Amsterdam as well as Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Airport and Airport Weeze).
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Contact for investors
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For questions or further information, please contact the Department of Economic Affairs,
Robert van Herwijnen, manager International Affairs
PO Box 99, 6800 AB Arnhem
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 26 3774612 / +31 6 52513593
Fax.: +31 26 3773450
Web-site: www.arnhem.nl (English and German site is under construction)
Email : gemeente@arnhem.nl
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Contact for cultural and sports associations
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Department for Culture and Sport (Dienst MO)
PO Box 9029, 6800 EL Arnhem,
The Netherlands
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Web address
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