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| 1 | 1911 | - 1911: The smallest church in the Netherlands, de Rietstap, is built in Dinxperlo. The owner had inherited money on the provision he would build a church.
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| 2 | 1914 | - 1914: As a result of the 'great war', traffic ceases to flow between the Achterhoek and Germany.
- 1914: For the first time, an aircraft is spotted in the sky above Dinxperlo.
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| 3 | 1922 | - 1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
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| 4 | 1927 | - 1927: Rev. Stegeman from Aalten holds a speech in Amsterdam, which is transmitted by radio. In Aalten, tickets are sold to hear the show for 15 cents.
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| 5 | 1932 | - 1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
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| 6 | 1933 | - 1933: Winterswijk gets their own department of the Nationalist Socialist party, the NSB. This party later becomes the major ally of the nazi party.
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| 7 | 1934 | - 1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
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| 8 | 1936 | - 1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
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| 9 | 1940 | - 1940: Start of the German occupation.
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| 10 | 1943 | - 1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
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| 11 | 1944 | - 1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
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| 12 | 1945 | - 1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
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| 13 | 1949 | - 1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.
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| 14 | 1959 | - 1959: A group of people from the Moluccas (part of the former Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies) are housed in camp Vossenveld in Winterswijk.
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| 15 | 1963 | - 1963: The town of Süderwick is given back to Germany after it had been annexed to the Netherlands in 1949.
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| 16 | 1980 | - 1980: The demise of the textile industry in the area leads to the closure of Winterswijk's last textile factory the Batavier.
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| 17 | 1986 | - 1986: Bredevoort is declared to be a 'protected cityscape' on account of the many remaining old buildings.
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| 18 | 1989 | - 1989: The first asylum seekers arrive in the new shelter Groot Deunk in Aalten.
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| 19 | 1992 | - 1992: Bredevoort Booktown starts. Several bookshops are opened in the old town.
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| 20 | 2004 | - 2004: Winterswijk is proclaimed a national landscape, confirming its status as an area of outstanding natural beauty.
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Achterhoek Ancestors
1910 - 2004 (94 years)