Wageningen is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. It lies on the north bank of the Rhine.

It received city rights in 1263.

Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen was in 1945 the site of the capitulation of the German troups in the Netherlands, and the end of German occupation during World War II. This fact is remembered annually.

The Hotel has recently been fully restored, meaning you can now actually stay or have dinner again in this historic location.

There have been plans to erect near the hotel, on the same square as the existing National Liberation Monument [1], a national monument Freedom Fire, also in honor of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. It is shiny, obelisk-shaped, and with a telescopically varying height, and an eternal flame at the top.

Some complain that it reminds of a penis (variable length) or a vibrator (shape), and that this is especially awkward considering that Bernhard has fathered two illegitimate daughters. Therefore the national monument Freedom Fire will be placed at another location, and for Bernhard there will be another monument on the square.

Wageningen hosts the Wageningen University and Research Center, or Wageningen UR, which is often referred to as the Wageningen University. The mayor of Wageningen is Alexander Pechtold, who is also president of the social liberal party Democrats 66.

External links

• Official Website (in Dutch)
• Map
• Official website of Wageningen UR (in English)
• De Digitale Stad Wageningen (in Dutch)