Oude IJsselstreek


Oude IJsselstreek is a municipality in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern Netherlands. It was established on 1 January 2005 by a merger of the former municipalities of Gendringen and Wisch.
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Geography and population centres

The municipality belongs to the transition area between the rivers in the south, coming from Germany, and the sandy soils of the Eastern Netherlands.
It has 15 population centres. Formerly from Gendringen
Formerly from Wisch
Terborg is the only population centre with city rights, but the largest one is Ulft with 10,000 inhabitants. The municipality of Oude IJsselstreek is considered to be divided into three units. The centres along the river Oude IJssel constitute the urban belt, Varsseveld in the east of the municipality is a rural village and the other centres are the external territories. The municipality plans to make Ulft the local centre.

Municipality council

After the 2022 municipal elections, the 25 seats on the Oude IJsselstreek municipal council divided as follows:

Mayor

Hans Alberse became mayor of the newly established Oude IJsselstreek municipality in May 2006. In 2015 he resigned and was replaced with Steven de Vreeze. In July 2016 Otwin van Dijk became mayor. He resigned in 2024, and acting mayor Mirjam Maasdam took over.

Culture

In this essentially rural municipality, there have been some places where iron ore was mined and processed. From the several enterprises the DRU was the largest, it closed in Ulft in 2003. Since 2009, the former DRU factory is a cultural centre named DRU Industriepark that houses the local library of Ulft, a theater, a regional centre for vocational education and other facilities. Municipal council meetings take place in its conference room.

International affairs

Oude IJsselstreek is a member of the Ring of the European Cities of Iron Works and hosted the annual convention of 2010.

Notable people

Other

Sport