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Baarn
Image:Dutch Municipality Baarn 2006.png
Country	Netherlands
Province	Utrecht </tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td>Coordinates</td> <td>52.22° N 5.28° E</td> Coordinates: 52.22° N 5.28° E
Area	33.32 km²
- Land	32.85 km²
- Water	0.47 km²
Population (2005)	24,421
- Density	743/km² </tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td>Mayor</td> <td>H.A. Smith (CDA)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align: top;"> <td>Website</td> <td>www.baarn.nl

Image:Ltspkr.pngBaarn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.

1 Population centres
2 The town Baarn
3 Well-known people from Baarn
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Population centres

The municipality of Baarn consists of the following towns: Baarn, Eembrugge, Lage Vuursche.

[edit] The town Baarn

Image:Map NL - Baarn - Baarn.png

Baarn, the main town of the municipality, received city rights in 1391. The town lies about 8 km east of Hilversum.

In 2001, the town of Baarn counted 22871 inhabitants. The urban area of the town was 4.66 km² wide, and contained 10076 residences.<ref name="CBS">Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Bevolkingskernen in Nederland 2001 [1]. Statistics are for the continuous built-up area.</ref>

The royal family owns several houses around Baarn. The Soestdijk Palace in Baarn was the home of Queen Emma, Queen Juliana and Juliana's husband prince Bernard. Crown prince Willem Alexander and his brothers attended school (Nieuwe Baarnse School and Baarnsch Lyceum) in Baarn when Queen Beatrix (then princess) and her family lived at Castle Drakesteijn in the village of Lage Vuursche, before they moved to The Hague in 1980.

Baarn has nice shopping facilities, mainly located in the Laanstraat. Other places worth visiting include 'het Cantonspark' (a botanic Garden) and Kasteel (=castle) Groeneveld. In the north and west there are polders, and the river Eem. The woodlands south-west of Baarn, connecting Baarn to Soestdijk, are called 'Het Baarnsche Bos', have good possibilities for recreation.

To the south lay the connecting road towards the city of Amersfoort, called 'Breemeentje'. This, approx. 10km long strecht of polder road, connects the town of Baarn to various roads in Soest and the industrial area of Amersfoort.

It has a railroad station, with trains going every half hour to Utrecht (38 minutes) Amersfoort (7 minutes) and Amsterdam (about 45 minutes). The A1 highway runs close to Baarn.

[edit] Well-known people from Baarn

Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in Baarn in 1918
M. C. Escher lived and worked in Baarn from 1941 to 1970

[edit] References

Other statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant

[edit] External links

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