's Gravenmoer

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's Gravenmoer
Flag of the place 's Gravenmoer
flag 		Coat of arms of the place 's Gravenmoer
coat of arms
province North Brabant North Brabant
local community Flag of the municipality of Dongen Dongen
Area
 - land
 - water 		5.23  km 2
5.16 km 2
0.07 km 2
Residents 2,295 (Jan. 1, 2018)
Coordinates 51 ° 40 ′  N , 4 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′  N , 4 ° 57 ′  E
prefix 0162
Postcodes 5109
Location of 's Gravenmoer in the municipality of Dongen
Location of 's Gravenmoer in the municipality of DongenTemplate: Infobox location in the Netherlands / maintenance / map

's Gravenmoer is a village in the north of the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant . It has 2295 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2018). The formerly independent municipality has been part of the municipality of Dongen since 1997 .

history

's Gravenmoer was founded in 1308 on a bog canal and originally belonged to the county of Holland , whose territory included part of the area south of the Meuse . In November 1421 the village was badly hit by the Second Elizabeth Flood. During the Eighty Years' War the village tried to be added to the Duchy of Brabant , but finally came to Holland in 1734. When the United Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, 's Gravenmoer became part of the newly established province of Noord-Brabant. The place remained an independent municipality until 1997 and was then incorporated into Dongen.

spelling, orthography

The name 's Gravenmoer is officially spelled without a hyphen, in contrast to similar names like' s-Gravenhage and 's-Hertogenbosch.

politics

Former councilor

Until the municipality was dissolved, the following distribution of seats had been made since 1982:

Political party Seats
1982 1986 1990 1994
CDA 4th 3 2 5
Community concerns 2 2 2 3
RPF 0 - 1 1
PvdA - 1 2 -
Protestants-Christelijke Groepering a 1 1 - -
VVD - 0 - -
total 7th 7th 7th 9
Remarks
aThe Protestants-Christelijke Groepering joined the local RPF parliamentary group in the 1990 local elections .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : 's Gravenmoer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2018 . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , October 26, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Results of the local elections , accessed December 30, 2018 (Dutch)