Wolfheze is a village in the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 province of Gelderland

Gelderland

Gelderland is the largest province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem. The two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn have more inhabitants. Other major regional centers in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Tiel, Wijchen,...

. It is located in the municipality of Renkum

Renkum

Renkum is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.The municipality has 31.801 inhabitants and has a land area of 47,12 km². Renkum is situated along the river Rhine The municipality Renkum is part of the Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen.The surrounding of the municipality are mainly...

, 10 km northwest of the city of Arnhem

Arnhem

Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...

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History

Wolfheze has had a train station

Wolfheze railway station

Wolfheze is a railway station located in Wolfheze, the Netherlands. The station opened in 1845 and is on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway.-Train services:The following services currently call at Wolfheze:...

 on the railway line between Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

 and Arnhem since 1845. In 1906 a charitable institution for the care of the mentally ill (Dutch: Vereniging tot Christelijke verzorging van geestes- en zenuwzieken) purchased a large woods on the south side of the train line on which to build a care center. In 1911 a center for the blind purchased a tract of land on the north side. During the first World War German prisoners of war were camped nearby.
It has about 1500 inhabitants.

Mental health facility

The Western part of the village is still a revalidation centre for the mentally ill, called Pro Persona today. The center has a small museum

Historisch museum APZ Wolfheze

The Historisch museum APZ Wolfheze is a museum located in Wolfheze in a former therapy building of the General Psychiatric Hospital , which was founded in 1907 and still exists there as part of the regional GGZ facility "Pro Persona".-History:The museum was opened in order to preserve the...

 with historical artifacts illustrating the history of the care for the mentally ill in Wolfheze. The center was bombed by mistake in WWII and the hospital needed to be evacuated, an operation that resulted in several deaths among the weaker patients.

Operation Market Garden

Wolfheze was chosen as one of the maps in the game Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the stand alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, a real-time strategy game for computers running the Windows operating system. It was announced on April 5, 2007. Opposing Fronts was developed by Canadian-based RTS developer Relic Entertainment, and...

. Wolfheze is also one of the many places where fighting in World War II took place, and an Airborne monument is situated there to commemorate Polish and British participants in Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....

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