Line-crosser is a Dutch concept from World War II. The name is used to refer to 21 people, mostly from Werkendam, who during the last months of the war...

municipality, part of Land van Heusden en Altena, contained a large part of De Biesbosch area as is located in the province of North Brabant. On January 1sth 2019...

North Brabant are: De Biesbosch; National Park; North Brabant / South Holland; 7.100 ha; 1994 De Zoom-Kalmthoutse Heide; Cross-Border Park; North Brabant...

Riet van Grunsven had become a “line crosser,” one of just 21 special resistance operatives from the larger Biesbosch resistance and Albrecht intelligence...

resistance and joined the group 'De Partizanen van de Biesbosch'. He became one of 21 so called line-crossers and, in the words of the royal order: distinguished...

Merwede, Afgedamde Maas, Heusdensch Kanaal, Bergsche Maas, and Amer. De Biesbosch National Park is partially situated in the western part of Altena. The...

destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 km2 (28 sq mi) Biesbosch tidal floodplains. The huge North Sea flood of February 1953 caused the...

neglect because of a civil war caused dikes to fail, which created the Biesbosch, now a valued nature reserve. The more recent floodings of 1916 and 1953...

The Bergse Maas continues under the name of Amer, which is part of De Biesbosch. The Afgedamde Maas joins the Waal, the main stem of the Rhine at Woudrichem...

west, through the Waal and then, via the Merwede and Nieuwe Merwede (De Biesbosch), merging with the Meuse, through the Hollands Diep and Haringvliet estuaries...

2010, he was at the Commemoration Memorial of the Line Crossers in Brugje of St. Jan in the Biesbosch. Hakkenberg lived in a care home in Wageningen and...

In the more densely populated countries such as the Netherlands, the Biesbosch wilderness was used. In northern Italy, both the Alps and the Apennines...