- Wehl
Wehl is a town in the eastern
Netherlands , about 5 km west ofDoetinchem .Wehl was a part of
Prussia until 1808, when it was joined to the Netherlands. In those years it was officially a part ofZeddam . Wehl became an independent municipality in 1813, when it was given back to Prussia; in 1816, it returned to the Netherlands. It remained an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization on1 January 2005 , when Wehl became part of the larger neighbouring municipality of Doetinchem. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]The former municipality also included the village of
Nieuw-Wehl , 3 km to the west.References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/ge/wehl.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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