Zevenaar

Zevenaar is a municipality and a city within the Gelderland province, in the eastern Netherlands close to the border with Germany. The earliest signs of human interest are remnants of a 700 BC settlement observed close to gift-day Zevenaar. In 1049, Emperor Hendrik III donated a huge amount of land to 5 warlords of which the chief turned into named Bartholomeus II of Sevenaer. They founded a fortress to defend the vintage Roman settlements from the Germans.

In 1355 Sevenaer handed from the control of the county/Duchy of Guelders to the Duchy of Cleves. In 1487, the duke of Cleves gave Sevenaer town rights. Sevenaer changed into an critical strategic factor –this border vicinity between Gelderland and Cleveland, changed into the border between the areas that would, over the centuries, be managed from one-of-a-kind centers of energy – the contemporary states of The Netherlands and Prussia . Some of the Castles and houses in Zevenaar have foundations dating lower back to the 14th Century Huize Sevenaer.