Ingen, Netherlands

It is a part of the municipality of Buren, and lies about 9 km south-west of Veenendaal.

The houses link to the townships De Ganzert and Eck en Wiel in the West.

The name could then come from Ingeborg, a god of the Vikings, or from the family Ingenhe from the 13th age.

The limes was a connection between the Castella (forts) of the northern part of the Roman Empire.

The history of the church is connected to the Commandry of St. John, a historic building in Nijmegen.

The village is built next to the river Nederrijn, a branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands.

The name Geldersweert [3] refers to a castle that stood west of the ferry in a floodplain.

The last noble owner was Anne Willen Jacob Joost Baron van Nagell, who inter alia was a chamberlain of King William III of the Netherlands.

The Germans manned the ferry, and the citizens weren't allowed to cross the Rhine any more.

A few weeks before the liberation, the Allies also began bombarding from Ede, what resulted in a grenade that came into the facade and the roof of the ferry house.

The Grebbeberg is a 50.2-metre high hill that was the central defensive point in 1940 for the centre and the west of the Netherlands.

But on the night of 3 December 1944 the Germans used an old Dutch defence: they destroyed the dikes of the Rhine south of Arnhem.

A part of the song translated into English goes like this: Once the Betuwe will be in bloom again, and will grow as one big, yellow grain.

[4] Ingen lies next to the river Nederrijn and is thereby a very fertile area, which is a home to many orchards.

The government pushed the agriculture to a higher level because they wanted to compete on the world market with other countries.

[5] The statistical area "Ingen", which also can include the peripheral parts of the village, as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 1,010.

Windmill: stellingmolen Op Hoop Van Beter
Limes in Northern Europe
Location of the German Limes in connection with the present borders of states.
Picture of Grebbeberg
Grebbeberg, the Netherlands, seen from the south.