Leusden

Leusden is a municipality and place inside the Dutch province of Utrecht and is located approximately three kilometers southeast of Amersfoort. The municipality has 30,028 inhabitants and has a place of ​​62.02 km². The western part of the municipality lies at the slopes of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, and is essentially blanketed with woods and heaths.

The east parts are located inside the Gelderse Vallei and are mainly agricultural land. As early as 777, the name Villa Lisiduna became stated in a bishop's charter for what is now known as Oud-Leusden. Villa has the which means of a neighbor right here. The call, like the Belgian Lesdain and the French cities Lesdain and Lesdins, is derived from the Latin Ledinium, Lesdinium, Lusdinium or Lisdinum. Jan de Vries had his doubts about this etymology at the same time as Berkel and Samplonius opted for the explanation of bogs, iris or groin and dunes. The origin of the municipality of Leusden isn't inside the cutting-edge place of the same call, but inside the community of Oud-Leusden at the southwest facet of Amersfoort. The Dodeweg linked the village of Leusbroek with the church and cemetery in Oud-Leusden.