Otterlo

Otterlo (municipality of Ede) is a small village in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, in or near the Nationaal Park De Hoge Veluwe.

Otterlo
Village
Otterlo, reformed church
Coordinates: 52°6′1″N 5°46′21″E
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceGelderland
MunicipalityEde
Population
 (1 January 2006)
2,380
Websiteotterlo.nl

The Kröller-Müller Museum, named after Helene Kröller-Müller, is situated nearby and has the world's second largest collection of Vincent van Gogh paintings.

Otterlo was a separate municipality until 1818, when it merged with Ede.[1]

Second World War

During the first four years of the war, Otterlo was relatively unharmed. The local resistance made use of a secret telephone connection from a electrician house, which in 2021 still stands at the dorpsstraat, behind barber Prophitius, to communicatie with the allies below the river Rhine (1944/1945). During the war, multiple families were hiding jewish people from the Germans. One location was betrayed however, resulting in a razzia in 1944 at the house 'De Lindenhof' at the Hoenderlooseweg.[2]


During the liberation of Netherlands in April 1945, Otterlo became the epicenter of a fierce and bloody battle by coincidence, between German and British and Canadian soldiers. See the Battle of Otterlo.

References
  1. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
  2. "Home | slagomotterlo.nl". slagomotterlo.nl. Retrieved 2021-05-11.

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