Brunssum

Brunssum

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Brunssum


mapsize = 280px
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = Netherlands
subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_name1 = Limburg
area_footnotes = (2006)
area_total_km2 = 17.29
area_land_km2 = 17.17
area_water_km2 = 0.13
population_as_of = 1 January, 2007
population_note = Source: CBS, [http://statline.cbs.nl/ Statline] .
settlement_type = Municipality
population_total = 29583
population_density_km2 = 1723
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2

Brunssum (Pronunciation|128 Brunssum.ogg) is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands.

The municipality has some 30.000 inhabitants.

Brunssum is one of the former coalmine centra, of which there are several in this region. The terrain, where once was a coalmine, now is the base of NATO's Joint Force Command Brunssum.

Nature

Near Brunssum is the "Brunssummerheide" ("Brunssummer heathland") situated; a sloping nature landscape, crossed by a brook, called "de Roode Beek" ("the red brook"). This heathland is a protected nature monument.

NATO base

The current Joint Forces Command was originally AFCENT (HQ Allied Forces in Central Europe) and was based in Fontainebleau (France) until 1967. It was renamed AFNORTH between 2000 until 2004, when the AFNORTH (at the time based in located at Kolsås outside Oslo) and AFCENT were merged. In 2004, following a restructuring of NATO, it was again renamed Joint Force Command.

Brunssum is also the base of the AFNORTH International School, located just outside the current site of the Joint Force Command. It also was renamed from AFCENT, but kept the name AFNORTH because of the hassle and money required to change all of the legal documents again.

Population centres

*Brunssum
*Treebeek

Notable people born in Brunssum

* Patrick Dybiona (born 1963), freestyle swimmer
* Kevin Hofland (born 1979), football (soccer) defender
* Bob Altena (born 1986), decathlete

External links

* [http://www.brunssum.nl Official Website]
* [http://www.jfcbs.nato.int/ Website for Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum]
* [http://www.afno-is.eu.dodea.edu/ AFNORTH International School]
* [http://www.team2037.com Team 2037, official FIRST team hosted in Brunssum]
* [http://www.afcent.org/ AFCENT/AFNORTH International School Alumini Site]


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