Kampen, Netherlands
Kampen is a municipality and city in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. About 54,000 people were living there in 2021. It lies both in Salland, Kop van Overijssel and IJsselvallei regions.
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| Coordinates: 52°33′N 5°55′E / 52.550°N 5.917°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Overijssel |
| Region | IJsselvallei, Kop van Overijssel, Salland |
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It is home of football team DOS Kampen.
The city of Kampen
The city of Kampen lies on the western side of the IJssel river. On the other side lies IJsselmuiden, which is the second largest settlement in the municipality of Kampen.
Kampen received city rights in 1236. It joined the Hanseatic League around 1440 and used to be an important port. Kampen has one of the old town centres in best condition of the Netherlands.
Famous people from Kampen
- Hendrick Avercamp (27 January 1585, - 15 May 1634, nicknamed "de Stomme van Kampen" (The Mute of Kampen)), is a painter best known for his small winter landscapes. Thea Beckman showed him as a character in some books. In Kampen, a street (Avercampstraat) and a café are named after him.
- Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, (born: 14 February 1911, Leiden) inventor of the artificial kidney. A street in Kampen is named after him (Dr. Kolfflaan).
- Petra van Staveren (born: 1966, Kampen), a swimmer who won the golden medal in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Sister cities
The sister cities of Kampen are:
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Kampen, Netherlands Media
Kampen (Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden Dutch city maps, by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1652
- Hendrick Avercamp - Winterlandschap met schaatsers bij de stad Kampen.jpg
Winter landscape with skaters c. 1625
- Kampen-plaats-OpenTopo.jpg
Topographic map of the city of Kampen, March 2014
- 20150909 Kamper steur.jpg
Kamper Sturgeon with a cowbell
Kampen South railway station
- Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest (1828-1894).jpg
Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest, 1870s
- Toneelstukken, Toneelspelers, SFA022826636.jpg
Omschrijving: Toneelstukken, Toneelspelers. Coen Hissink als "de jonge Syriër" in het toneelstuk "Salomé " van Oscar Wilde. Amsterdam, Nederland, 1917.
- Luitenant-generaal J.J.G. baron van Voorst tot Voorst (1880-1963) in 1948.jpg
Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst, 1948
- Petra van Staveren 1984.jpg
Petra van Staveren
References
- Plaatsengids.nl Archived 2023-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
Other websites
Template:Salland municipalities Template:Kop van Overijssel municipalities