Berg en Dal | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Flag Size: | 100x67px |
Map Alt: | Highlighted position of Berg en Dal in a municipal map of Gelderland |
Coordinates: | 51.7833°N 61°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Gelderland |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 2015 (renamed in 2016) |
Governing Body: | Municipal council |
Leader Party: | CDA |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Mark Slinkman |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 34 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Postal Code: | 6560–6564, 6570–6572 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 024 |
Berg en Dal (literally in English: Mountain and Valley) is a municipality in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It was formed through a merger of the municipalities of Groesbeek, Millingen aan de Rijn and Ubbergen in 2015. The resulting larger municipality maintained the name of Groesbeek until 2016, when it was renamed to Berg en Dal after the village of Berg en Dal.[2]
Berg en Dal has about 34,714 inhabitants and covers an area of about 93 km². The municipality borders in the north on the Waal river and the Bijlands Kanaal, in the east on the German forest of the Reichswald, in the south on the province of Limburg, in the southwest on the forest of the Mookerheide (also Limburg), and in the west on the city of Nijmegen.
Berg en Dal is slightly hilly with altitudes reaching 75 meters at the Duivelsberg, a hill in the municipality.
The route of the International Four Days Marches Nijmegen goes through the municipality on the 3rd day (Day of Groesbeek).
The municipal council has 25 members. The 2022 election results were as follows:[3]
After this election, Kernachtig Groesbeek and LOKAAL! formed a coalition.[4] The municipal executive consists of mayor Mark Slinkman (CDA) and four aldermen, drawn from the coalition parties.[5]