Zetten

Zetten is a village in the Overbetuwe municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands.

[1] Archaeological finds indicate that the area around Zetten and the neighbouring village of Herveld was inhabited in the Roman era.

It is located between two rivers, on slightly higher ground, such that it was less often flooded in times when no dykes were present.

The settlement of Sethone (Zetten) was mentioned in a deed of 1005, in which Heribert of Cologne gave the local church to the monastery in Deutz.

The area around Zetten and the nearby village of Hemmen saw heavy fighting in the winter of 1944 and 1945, in the aftermath of Operation Market Garden.