Bemmel

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Bemmel is a village in Gelderland in the municipality of Lingewaard. It was previously a municipality of its own, but in 2001 it merged with Huissen and Gendt to form the new municipality Bemmel, which was later renamed Lingewaard.

Bemmel lies in between the two major cities of Gelderland, Arnhem and Nijmegen, and is thus bordered by the river Rhine and the river Waal. Nijmegen and Arnhem are both expanding at a fast pace, so it is likely that Bemmel will become part of the suburbs of either city in the near future.

The first inhabitants of Bemmel can not be exactly pointed out. Some people think that Bemmel was at one time the possession of a rich Art and Antiques-trading family, who called themselves Strydhagen, or Strijdhagen. Others claim that Bemmel was at one time part of the rest of the region 'de Betuwe', property of the family Klaassen, the younger part of the family of the great duke Jan (or John) Klaassen (+ 915 AC).

It has a population of 12,189 (as at 1 January 2006).