Beltrum is a small village in the region called Achterhoek

Achterhoek

The Achterhoek is a region in the eastern part of the Netherlands, Europe.Its name is geographically appropriate because the area lies in the Eastern-most part of Gelderland, and therefore of the Netherlands, protruding into Germany...

 in the province of Gelderland

Gelderland

Gelderland is the largest province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem. The two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn have more inhabitants. Other major regional centers in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Tiel, Wijchen,...

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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Religion

Most people of the village belong to the catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 'Onze Lieve Vrouwe ten Hemelopneming' which was founded with the building of a parish church in 1853. Before they were mainly oriented at the catholic Calixtus church, the former catholic church in Groenlo

Groenlo

Groenlo is a city in the municipality of Oost Gelre, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands on the German border, a region in the province of Gelderland called the Achterhoek . Groenlo was a municipality until January 1, 2005, when it merged with Lichtenvoorde. Until May 19 2006 Groenlo...

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Politics

Before the 19th century Beltrum was part of the Stad en Heerlijkheid of Borculo

Borculo

Borculo is a former municipality and a village in the eastern Netherlands, in the Province of Gelderland.On January first 2005 the municipality Borculo merged with the municipalities of Eibergen, Neede and Ruurlo into the municipality of Berkelland....

. From about 1800 until 1819 it was an independent municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

. After this short independent period it became a buurtschap and part of Eibergen

Eibergen

Eibergen is a former municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands in an area called Achterhoek. The administrative cooperation of about 20 municipalities in this region, is called Regio Achterhoek....

. Today Beltrum belongs to the municipality of Berkelland

Berkelland

Berkelland is a municipality in the Netherlands province of Gelderland. It was created on 1 January 2005 from the merger of the former municipalities of Borculo, Eibergen, Neede, and Ruurlo...

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Sports

Sports in Beltrum is organized in community clubs. The biggest of them is the 'Sportcentrale VIOS', a federation of Beltrum sports clubs with member clubs that are active in soccer, gymnastics, handball, volleyball, table tennis or tug-of-war. Besides VIOS there is a tennis club and a sports rifle club.

Export products

Beneath the biggest wooden shoe factory of Europe, Beltrum's export products are dweilorkest Valse Loch and the coverrockband Aftershock. Beltrum is also famous by the yearly organized survival run in january with hundreds of competitors.