Editing Groesbeek (section)

==Modern Groesbeek==
[[File:Groesbeek wine harvest festival.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Annual wine harvest festival in Groesbeek]]

Because of much better infrastructure and a generally increased amount of mobility among the Dutch after WW2, modern Groesbeek has transformed from a small village dependent on agriculture and forestry into a sprawling commuter town of nearby Nijmegen. The town itself is surrounded by hills and forests, including a three-kilometre wide band of woodlands, [[Dekkerswald]], separating it from [[Heilig Landstichting]] and Nijmegen proper. In the last decade a [[viniculture]] industry has sprung up in Groesbeek, making the area the northernmost vinicultural centre in Europe, and the only such area in the Netherlands, owing to the highly fertile loess soil, generally warmer summers, and new variations of grapes which do better in the humid climate. 

Despite having under 20,000 inhabitants, Groesbeek has one [[association football|football club]], ([[De Treffers]]), playing in the [[Tweede Divisie]], the country's highest amateur level. Another club, [[Achilles '29]], accepted promotion to the national first division in 2013 (the first club that accepted promotion in many years). There are also four other football teams: Germania, D.V.S.G., Groesbeekse boys and Rood-Wit. 

The town is also well known as the setting of the third day of the [[International Four Days Marches Nijmegen|Nijmeegse Vierdaagse]] when walkers participating in this international event have to pass through the town and the surrounding hills.

Groesbeek is also famous for having one of the biggest parades in the Netherlands on the Sunday of the Catholic carnival. Because of its success, places are now  limited as the parade.