You Are Here Map - Niersen NL
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dreamhummie
N 52° 16.675 E 005° 54.203
31U E 698060 N 5795920
You Are Here Map located on a parking place in the Forest named Kroondomein Het Loo near Niersen, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMP17P
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 06/08/2015
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Niersen is a hamlet in the town of Epe (Dutch province of Gelderland), approximately three kilometers west of Vaassen.
The hamlet is surrounded by the woods of the Veluwe, on the old road, along which many burial mounds. Niersen existed for several centuries, it was mentioned already in 1335 in a document as "Marka niirsen. However, the location of the burial mounds on the Elburgerweg to believe that the environment Niersen probably been inhabited for about 6,000 years. In the Middle Ages the inhabitants of sheep breeding and agriculture. The sheep manure was used as fertilizer.
In the area of ??Niersen are many sprinkle that allowed an early industrialization in the village Vaassen. Along the course of the various streams were paper mills, laundries, trout farms and other devices driven by water mills founded.
The water content also made agriculture possible Kidney Sense enk. The population did in former times to keep it alive by livestock. The time surrounding moors were grazed by flocks of sheep.
Niersen is south and west surrounded by the Kroondomein Het Loo.
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