Winterswijk

Winterswijk is a municipality and a town in the jap Netherlands. It has a populace of 28,999 and is located within the Achterhoek, which lies inside the easternmost part of the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. It became additionally known as Winethereswick, Winriswic or Wenterswic; the Anglo Saxon wich or wic manner the living area of a positive individual. The individual would likely have been known as Wenether, Winitar or Winter. Winterswijk is located in east of the province of Gelderland within the east of the Netherlands.

It is part of the region of Achterhoek. Founded around 1000 AD it remained an isolated farming community till 1830 whilst the street from Borken to Zutphen via Winterswijk and Groenlo was built. Around 1840 many emigrated to America Michigan especially. After 1870 the metropolis have become a centre for textiles, such as spinning and weaving and certainly the Tricot fabriek employed a huge proportion of the neighborhood population in its heyday.