- Huissen
Huissen is a town in
Gelderland ,the Netherlands and has about 17.000 inhabitants. Huissen is in the municipality ofLingewaard . It was previously a municipality of its own, but in 2001 it merged withGendt andBemmel to form the new municipality Lingewaard. Huissen is located at the Nederrijn, in the area between Arnhem and NijmegenHuissen was first mentioned in
814 as "Hosenheim". It received city rights in1348 . The city was part of theDuchy of Cleves and became Dutch in1816 .External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/ge/huissen.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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