Nuth

Nuth (Dutch pronunciation: [nɵt] (listen); Limburgish: Nut) is a village and was a municipality in the province of Limburg, situated in the southern Netherlands. In January 2019, the municipality merged with Schinnen and Onderbanken to form Beekdaelen.[4]

Nuth

Nut
Former Municipality
Old farmhouse in Arensgenhout
Flag
Coat of arms
Location in Limburg
Coordinates: 50°55′N 5°53′E
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceLimburg
MunicipalityBeekdaelen
Government
 • BodyMunicipal council
 • MayorDésirée Schmalschläger (GroenLinks)
Area
 • Total33.13 km2 (12.79 sq mi)
 • Land33.09 km2 (12.78 sq mi)
 • Water0.04 km2 (0.02 sq mi)
Elevation86 m (282 ft)
Demonym(s)Nutter
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
6333, 6336, 6360–6363
Area code045
Websitewww.beekdaelen.nl

The village of Nuth has 5,452 inhabitants, and is with that the largest village of the municipality. The town hall of the municipality Nuth was also situated in the village Nuth. The other villages in the municipality were Hulsberg with 3,980 inhabitants, Schimmert with 3,226, Wijnandsrade with 1,647 and Vaesrade with 997 inhabitants (data: 1-1-2017). The other population centres belong to one of the following villages.

Population centres

Aalbeek, Arensgenhout, Grijzegrubben, Helle, Hellebroek, Hulsberg, Laar, Schimmert, Swier, Terstraten, Vaesrade, Wijnandsrade.

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Nuth, June 2015

Transportation

Some facts about Nuth
  • The patron Saint of Nuth is St. Bavo, after which the parish is named.
  • The municipality expanded all the way from Hoensbroek to Meerssen.
  • From 2004 Nuth boasted a one Michelin star restaurant, In de'n Dillegaard, and Nuth made the international press when the restaurant owner returned the coveted star in 2009 over concerns of being too elitist.[5]
gollark: Make all strings be represented as trees in some horrible way regardless of length.
gollark: You should also steal syntax from a combination of lisp, PHP, Pascal, and Go.
gollark: What if horrible syntax frontend for osmarkslisp™?
gollark: What?
gollark: I can tell from the $s and ::s that it might be.

References
  1. "Collegeleden" [Members of the board] (in Dutch). Gemeente Nuth. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  2. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten" [Key figures for neighbourhoods]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
  3. "Postcodetool for 6361BZ". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  4. "Gemeenteraad Beekdaelen beëdigd in gemeentehuis Nuth" [Town council of Beekdaelen sworn in at Nuth municipality office] (in Dutch). 1Limburg. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  5. Dutch restaurant gives Michelin star back
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