Kootwijkerbroek
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| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Gelderland |
| Municipality | Barneveld |
| Population (2004) | 4,840 |
Kootwijkerbroek is a village in the Netherlands, on the Veluwe, in the municipality of Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands. The village had 4,840 inhabitants in 2004. The village, situated in the Gelderland Valley, east of Barneveld, has a major agricultural role in this part of the valley. Kootwijkerbroek is an old village just between Kootwijk and Barneveld. Generation after generation people here were miller by trade. Unfortunately the last mill burnt down in 1964, but there are plans to rebuild it. On the edge of the village, you can see a church with a beautiful old vicarage surrounded by an attractive garden park with ponds.
Kootwijkerbroek is a conservative Protestant village, located on the Dutch Bible Belt. In the 2010 municipal elections, 52 percent of the local population voted for the Reformed Political Party (SGP). The three Christian parties in the elections (the Reformed Political Party, the ChristianUnion and the Christian Democratic Appeal) had a combined total of almost 70 percent of the votes.
Hundreds of farmers protested in 2001 in the village of Kootwijkerbroek. They tried to protect the slaughter of healthy cattle as a result of foot and mouth disease restrictions. The farmers never accepted the verdict by the authorities that the disease had spread to the Teunissen farm, simply because the alleged outbreak never spread beyond the suspected veal calf operation. In every other outbreak location in 2001, other surrounding farms were infected with animals showing evidence of the infection. The blockade involved about 200 farmers and was the largest protest related to the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the Netherlands.
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Coordinates: 52°09′N 5°40′E / 52.150°N 5.667°E