Aangrenze

Aangrenze is a term in Dutch-language geography and urban planning that designates the state or condition of being adjacent, i.e., in direct contact or sharing a boundary with another area, object, or feature. In cartography and regional planning, aangrenze describes the relationship between two spatial units that touch along a boundary line. It is closely related to concepts such as adjacency, contiguity, and border delineation.

The term is typically used to discuss how areas relate to one another, for example the aangrenze of a municipality with its neighboring jurisdictions, or the aangrenze of land parcels in a cadastral map. Understanding aangrenze helps in analyzing infrastructure spillover, shared services, and boundary management, including zoning and the allocation of public rights of way.

In practice, the concept may be described in planning documents as adjacent areas, neighboring zones, or contiguous parcels. The term is less common in everyday Dutch but appears in formal planning and geographic discourse. It is also relevant to legal contexts concerning easements, boundary disputes, and cross-border cooperation where the nature of the aangrenze influences rights and obligations.

See also: adjacency, boundary, contiguous property, border dispute, cadastral map, urban planning.