Velden, Limburg

Velden (Dutch: [ˈvɛldə(n)] ⓘ; Limburgish: Velde) is a village in the municipality of Venlo (5,085 inhabitants) in Limburg, Netherlands.

Velden is situated along the river Meuse about 5 km north of the center of Venlo on N 271 Rijksstraatweg.

Then it fell to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which established the border into Germany by the distance of a cannon on the banks of the Meuse to the east.

In the Treaty of London in 1839, the limits laid down and the entire area was in 1866 with the Netherlands.

Olympian Herman Bouwens[1] and politician Ger Koopmans were born in Velden.

Velden, church