Garderen is a village in the Dutch

Netherlands

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 province of Gelderland

Gelderland

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. It is located in the municipality of Barneveld

Barneveld

Barneveld is a town and a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the center of the Netherlands. It is known for its poultry industry and large protestant community. The population of the municipality was 52.629 in June 2010, the town having a population of 29.756.-Transport:Barneveld is...

, in the forests of the Veluwe

Veluwe

The Veluwe is a forest-rich ridge of hills in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The Veluwe features many different landscapes including woodland, heath, some small lakes and Europe's largest sand drifts....

. The village has 1,994 inhabitants (as of 1 January, 2008).

Garderen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Barneveld

Barneveld

Barneveld is a town and a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the center of the Netherlands. It is known for its poultry industry and large protestant community. The population of the municipality was 52.629 in June 2010, the town having a population of 29.756.-Transport:Barneveld is...

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Location

The village is located in an agricultural enclave on the west side of the Veluwe. It has been a tourist destination for a long time, owing to its bed & breakfasts with high-quality food, but it has always remained a conservative and religious village.

Services

The village has a primary school, a practice, a Restored Reformed Church, a reformed town within the PKN, a continuing Reformed Church, a cemetery, band Tog mill De Hoop, various hotels, restaurants, cafes and snack bars, campgrounds, shops basic and several dozen other companies.
Garderen center has a function for the villages Speuld, Stroe and Kootwijk. Even residents of the neighborhoods Wood Village, More Field, New Milligen and Cold Horn often have a focus on the village Garderen.

History

Garderen is older than the village of Barneveld and was originally the capital of the later city Barneveld. The church of the Dutch Reformed Church

Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...

 was originally built in the eleventh century. The current tower dates from the fourteenth century. From 1812 to 1818 Garderen was an independent municipality, now a separate cadastral designation. After this it became part of the municipality of Barneveld.

Serbian monuments

At the cemetery, there is a Serbian war memorial, in memory of the 29 Serb soldiers who were killed by the Spanish flu shortly after the First World War. They were part of a large group of Serbian soldiers who were temporarily housed in the 'Lombok' barracks at the nearby Camp Milligen. In 2007, by order of the Committee, the manager of the cemetery Veluwehof Stone from Voorthuizen started to renew the monument, and in stages, to expand it.

External links

Map of the former municipality, around 1868.