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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten

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Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten (ˈnynə(ŋ) ˈɣɛrʋə(n) ɛˌneːdərˈʋɛtə(n)) is a municipality consisting of the larger village of Nuenen and two adjacent smaller ones. It is located in the province of North Brabant, about east of Eindhoven, the fifth largest city in the Netherlands. From being a small farmers town of less than 1000 inhabitants around 1950 Nuenen grew steadily as ever more new employees of Philips and the Eindhoven University (TUE) chose Nuenen as their new home. A battle fought in Nuenen during World War II was shown in an episode of the miniseries Band of Brothers. The historical battle took place there during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. As of the 2022 municipal election, The municipal council of Nuenen contains seven parties. As of 2018, the municipal executive consists of four coalition parties: W70 Nuenen, GreenLeft (GL), Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and Naturally Nuenen (Socialist Party before), the latter of which has an independent Alderman. !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center colspan=2|Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats |- |bgcolor="#fcda00" width=2| |align=left|W70 Nunen|| |- | |align=left|Labour Party/GreenLeft|| |- | |align=left|People's Party for Freedom and Democracy|| |- | |align=left|Democrats 66|| |- |bgcolor="#d3d3d3" width=2| |align=left|Combination Nuenen c.a.|| |- | |align=left|Christian Democratic Appeal|| |- |bgcolor="#808080" width=2| |align=left|Lijst Pijs|| |} Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) spent two years in Nuenen from 1883 to 1885. His father lived and worked there as the Protestant pastor in the largely catholic environment. Van Gogh lived in the small carriagehouse next to the beautiful pastor's house, which is well preserved and visited by art lovers from all over the world. Van Gogh was extremely productive in his years in Nuenen. It is referred to as his so-called dark or sombre period. Here he painted his famous painting The potato eaters as well as Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen).
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