Roermond

Roermond, gemeente (municipality), southeastern Netherlands, at the confluence of the Maas (Meuse) and Roer rivers. Chartered in 1232, it was the historic capital of the Upper Quarter of Gelderland (until the duchy was ceded to Charles V in 1543) and was a prosperous centre of the cloth trade in the 14th and 15th centuries. Predominantly Roman Catholic (the seat of a bishopric since 1559), it remained under Habsburg rule when the Netherlands became independent. It...