Editing Lichtenvoorde

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| image_skyline           = File:Lichtenvoorde johannuskerk.jpg
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| image_caption           = Protestant St John church
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| subdivision_name1       = [[Gelderland]]
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| subdivision_name2       = [[Oost Gelre]]
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| population_total        = 12,910
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'''Lichtenvoorde''' is a town in the east of the [[Netherlands]], in the municipality of [[Oost Gelre]].

Lichtenvoorde holds a flower parade (''bloemencorso'') every September at the start of its annual festival. The parade features [[Float (parade)|floats]] covered in flowers (usually [[dahlia]]s) in imaginative designs depicting a variety of themes.

Lichtenvoorde has a [[motocross]] circuit on which international grands prix are held.

==History==
Lichtenvoorde was the name of a municipality that included the town and the villages of [[Lievelde]], [[Zieuwent]], Vragender and Harreveld, until 1 January 2005, when all were merged into the municipality of Oost Gelre.

Its inhabitants are known colloquially as ''keienslöppers'' (boulder draggers) due to a historic event. On 15 March 1874, 99 of the town's shoemakers dragged a 20 ton boulder a distance of around four kilometres to the marketplace to serve as a centerpiece for commemoration of [[William III of the Netherlands|King William III]]'s silver jubilee, after 25 years on the country's throne. The boulder remains there to this day, topped by a stone lion holding the town's coat of arms.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Lichtenvoorde 441.JPG|alt=Lichtenvoorde lion|The boulder in the marketplace
File:Lichtenvoorde kerk.jpg|Catholic church in Lichtenvoorde
File:Erve Kots - Los Hoes 2007-07.jpg| Farm at the open-air museum Erve Kots in Lievelde
File:Kerk Zieuwent.jpg|Catholic church in Zieuwent
File:Vragender dorp.JPG|Vragender Village
File:Harreveld hermien.jpg|Windmill Hermien in Harreveld
</gallery>

== References ==
{{RefList}}

==External links==
* [http://www.oostgelre.nl Website of Oost Gelre]

{{Dutch municipality Oost Gelre}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Oost Gelre]]
[[Category:Populated places in Gelderland]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of Gelderland]]
[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2005]]