Hellendoorn

Hellendoorn is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Dutch province of Overijssel. There is an entertainment park close to the metropolis of Hellendoorn known as Avonturenpark Hellendoorn. The municipality of Hellendoorn is the handiest vicinity inside the Netherlands where gold mining passed off. The Germans operated a V-2 launching platform close to the metropolis of Hellendoorn at some point of World War II, harassing the town of Antwerp. On March, 22nd 1945, Nijverdal was seriously bombed with the aid of allied bombers who have been concentrated on the German Reichskommissar of Austrian foundation Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

Seyss-Inquart turned into fleeing the advancing Allied forces and had set up his temporary headquarters within the Reformed School in Nijverdal, however had already left metropolis at the time of the bombing. Over 70 people have been killed, especially at the Grotestraat. A small part of the film A Bridge Too Far changed into filmed near Hellendoorn. In 1955, a part of the municipality of Wierden changed into annexed that is the most effective part of the municipality located on originally Twente soil. In the late-Seventies the sector of 'het Lochter' arose here.