Berkelland ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛrkəlɑnt] ) 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. The new municipality was named after the Berkel , a small river.
4-395: [REDACTED] Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Berkelland, June 2015. The Eibergen community houses the interception station of the Nationale SIGINT Organisatie . This Gelderland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eibergen Eibergen ( Low Saxon : Eibarge ) is a town and former municipality in Gelderland in
8-607: A local annual indoor soccer tournament of Eibergen's police has grown to the world's largest sports event of its kind: the World Police Indoor Soccer Tournament . Held in October every year: more than 3,000 police officers from over 54 countries participate. It houses an interception station of the Nationale SIGINT Organisatie . The Mallumsche Molen is an old water mill, built in 1753. It lies on
12-522: A population of approximately 12,000 people. Its East boundary is the Dutch-German border and Eibergen used to count two official border crossing points on main roads and a small number of border crossing points for limited use on secondary roads. Since border crossing traffic became free and checks are only made inward at a certain distance from the actual border, the border has been 'perforated' by numerous (mostly bicycle) roads. Because of this border past,
16-592: The Eastern Netherlands . It is part of the Achterhoek cultural region. The administrative cooperation of about 20 municipalities in this region is the Regio Achterhoek. On 1 January 2005 the municipality of Eibergen merged with the neighbouring municipalities of Neede , Borculo and Ruurlo into the new municipality of Berkelland . As of 2021, the town had a population of 11,210. The town of Eibergen has
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