Grave

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municipality town

Grave is a Dutch town in the province of North Brabant, historically notable for its strategic river crossing and well-preserved medieval fortifications.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	municipality → town →
areaCode	0486 →
capturedBy	Allied forces in September 1944 →
coordinateLocation	51.759°N 5.738°E →
country	Netherlands →
crossingCapturedBy	82nd Airborne Division (US) in 1944 →
formerMunicipalityOf	Escharen → Gassel → Velp (North Brabant) →
hasCityRights	yes →
hasCityRightsSince	1233 →
hasCulturalEvent	local carnival celebrations →
hasEconomicActivity	small-scale services → tourism →
hasFeature	bastions → city walls remnants → historic town center → medieval fortifications → moats → strategic river crossing →
hasHeritageDesignation	protected cityscape →
hasLandmark	Canons of Grave (artillery pieces) → Hampoort city gate → John S. Thompsonbrug → St. Elisabeth Church →
hasMunicipalStatusChange	merged into Land van Cuijk municipality in 2022 →
hasMuseum	Graafs Museum →
hasPopulation	approximately 8700 (town) →
hasPopulationAsOf	around 2021 →
historicallyPartOf	Duchy of Brabant → Meierij van ’s-Hertogenbosch →
historicalRegion	Land van Cuijk →
localDialect	Brabants (East Brabantian dialect) →
locatedIn	North Brabant →
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	province of North Brabant →
locatedInTimeZone	CET →
locatedOnRiver	Maas → Meuse →
officialLanguage	Dutch →
partOf	Land van Cuijk region →
postalCode	5361 →
roadAccess	N321 → N324 →
significantEvent	liberation during Operation Market Garden → siege of Grave (1674) in the Franco-Dutch War → siege of Grave (1794) in the French Revolutionary Wars →
usesDaylightSavingTime	CEST →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Canons of Grave → Hampoort city gate → John S. Thompsonbrug →	locatedIn
siege of Grave (1794) →	appliesToJurisdiction
John S. Thompsonbrug →	connects
Land van Cuijk region →	contains
siege of Grave (1674) →	hasLocation
Land van Cuijk region →	historicalCenter
Operation Market Garden →	keyLocation
Graafs Museum →	locatedInMunicipality
Gassel →	locatedNear
siege of Grave (1794) →	location
Gassel →	mergedInto
Escharen →	mergedIntoMunicipality
Hell’s Highway →	passesNear
Anna van Egmond →	placeOfBirth