- Kralingen
Kralingen is a former village in the Dutch province of
South Holland , now a neighbourhood ofRotterdam . It is located about 3 kilometres east of the city centre, in the boroughKralingen-Crooswijk .Kralingen was a separate municipality until 1895, when it merged with Rotterdam. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ] Previously, the high society of the growing city in the 19th century had their pleasure gardens and villas erected here.
It is home to the "Kralingse Plas", a large surface water used for recreation, and the "Kralingse Bos", a forest of 2 square kilometres that welcomed 100,000 visitors for the music festival in 1970 which was the "European answer to Woodstock".
When Rotterdam was bombed on 14 May 1940, a large portion of Kralingen went up in flames as well.
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* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/zh/kralingen.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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