Maarn

Maarn is a village inside the Dutch municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, on the foot of the eponymous Heuvelrug inside the southeast of the province of Utrecht. The village has four,651 inhabitants. The Utrechtse Heuvelrug has been a countrywide park considering the fact that 2003. To the west of Maarn lie the Maarnse Berg and the stray island. Southwest are the Sun Hill and St. Helena Hill. Maarn become an independent municipality till 1 January 2006, which additionally covered the Maarsbergen middle.

Maarn has a unique village view. The 'Garden Village' Maarn become constructed in 1921 for the employees who worked within the sand excavation of the Dutch Railways. The homes are especially small, but on the other hand have an significant garden area. Like in many other places in the Netherlands, Maarn also had the principle that, similarly to their scant wages from NS, the people should be capable of grow their personal vegetables of their very own garden. At the rate of the management of the housing association 'Maarn', it became decided in 2003 after a fierce warfare with the citizens to preserve the 'Tuindorp' in its modern-day form.