Arnhem

Arnhem (anc. Arenacum; Ger. Arnheim), the capital of the Dutch province of Guelderland, on the right bank of the Rhine, 38 miles ESE. of Utrecht by rail. The manufactures include tobacco, woollen and cotton goods, soap, and paper. The environs are exceedingly picturesque, forming a favourite residence of merchants of the Low Countries. Among its most remarkable buildings are the 'great church,' with interesting monuments, and the town-hall, whose grotesque carvings have gained for it the name of 'Devil's house.' Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 at Arnhem; in 1813 the town was taken by the Prussians. Pop. (1884) 44,436; (1892) 51,687.