WAGENINGEN

Wageningen: translation

Small town of about 35,000 in Gelderland. Wagenin gen received municipal rights in 1263. Nowadays it is famous for its university and research center for life sciences. The university started in 1918 as a polytechnic for agriculturalstudies. On 6 May 1945, Nazi Germany surrendered in Wageningen. Negotiations took place in the Hotel de Wereld, in the presence of Prince Bernhard. Until 2005, the capitulation was commemorated by a veteran soldiers parade.