Katwijk
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| province |
 South Holland
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| mayor | Cornelis Visser ( CDA ) |
| Seat of the municipality | Katwijk |
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Area - land - water |
31.15 km 2 24.61 km 2 6.54 km 2 |
| CBS code | 0537 |
| Residents | 65,336 (Jan 31, 2019) |
| Population density | 2097 inhabitants / km 2 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 12 ' N , 4 ° 24' E |
| Important traffic route |
  
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| prefix | 071 |
| Postcodes | 2221-2225, 2231-2232, 2235, 2242 |
| Website | Homepage of Katwijk |
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Katwijk ( ) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands , province of South Holland . It has 65,336 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019) who live on a land area of 24.61 km². This makes it one of the more densely populated communities in the country. Since January 1, 2006, the neighboring municipalities of Valkenburg and Rijnsburg belong to Katwijk.
Location and economy
Katwijk is located at the former confluence of the Oude Rijn with the North Sea , about five kilometers west of Leiden . The place is a popular seaside resort with a wide sandy beach, which makes tourism one of the main sources of income for the municipality.
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Katwijk has a deep sea fishing fleet and some fish processing companies. The headquarters of the fishing group Parlevliet & Van der Plas is located in the Valkenburg district . The place originally consists of two cores, the old Katwijk aan den Rijn with the harbor, and Katwijk aan Zee, located directly on the beach. However, both districts grew closer and closer together after the Second World War , so that the place now presents itself with a closed development. The center of today's Katwijk is in the district aan Zee , as the infrastructure that is important for tourists has developed there.
history
At the point where Katwijk is that you want Germanic tribe of the chat or Catten lived. The Roman fort and port Lugdunum Batavorum (Brittenburg) on the Oude Rijn was between Katwijk aan Zee and Noordwijk aan Zee and is listed in the Roman Tabula Peutingeriana . Occasional coin finds from Roman times have also been found in Katwijk. Archaeological finds from today's Katwijk are exhibited in the Museum of Antiquity ( Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ) in Leiden. The mouth of the Rhine was already silting up in Roman times. When the formation of dunes rapidly advanced in the 11th century , Katwijk was no longer a port. The Oude Rijn remained a shipping route. Today the Oude Rijn is separated from the open sea by a dam, so that ships and boats from the harbor can only reach the open sea via detours.
Until the 19th century, the place remained a poor fishing village with a fairly Orthodox population in church terms. The latter is still partly the case. The merger of the Dutch Reformed Church in 2004 led to a split in the church in Katwijk and religious insecurity for many devout Christians.
Around 1900 Katwijk became the target of numerous Impressionist and other painters, including Max Liebermann and Jan Toorop . His daughter Charley Toorop was born in Katwijk.
Katwijk suffered considerably during World War II from the German occupiers, who tore down parts of the old town center for the construction of the Atlantic Wall . These vacant lots were closed in the 1950s with modern buildings that give the district aan Zee a modern cityscape. However, the cozy atmosphere of the old fishing village was lost.
Katwijk is the largest city in the Netherlands with no trams or rail links (public transport). At Valkenburgersee there is a steam train, near a steam train museum.
Katwijk artists' colony
The first known painting of Katwijk from the 1st Golden Age of Dutch painting was made by the Haarlem painter Jacob van Ruisdael , its title is: View of the Tower of Katwijk . This proves that Katwijk has been a popular motif in landscape painting since that time.
From 1870 to 1914 there was an artists' colony in Katwijk . She is part of the international Impressionist movement and belongs to the Hague School . The Katwijks Museum arose from this. It has a permanent exhibition on old life around the fishing village of Katwijk aan Zee - this part may be considered a local museum. In addition, there are annually changing art exhibitions, following on from the tradition of art lived there around the movement of Impressionism. The themes chosen are directly related to Impressionism and the artists who were active around Katwijk aan Zee or who flocked to the surrounding area - one of the main themes was the life of fishermen and their families and their famous ships, the Bomschuits . There are names like Adolph Artz, Bernard Blommers, Hans von Bartels , Eugéne Dücker , Wilhelm Hambüchen , Thomas Bush Hardy, Jozef Israëls , Hendrik Willebrord Jansen, Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek , Max Liebermann . German Grobe , also a painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting, oriented himself heavily on Liebermann's work, so that he was nicknamed "Düsseldorfer Liebermann". Grobe spent almost 50 consecutive summers in Katwijk painting there and created an extensive body of work. Furthermore, in January Toorop and January Hillebrand Wijsmuller to name.
Attractions
Despite all the devastation of the war, many old houses and churches still remain in Katwijk. The local history museum Katwijker Museum is also worth seeing, as is the lighthouse. The late Gothic Andreaskerk is located in the Katwijk an Zee district .
Interesting destinations for tourists are the North Sea beach, the museum railway and the railway museum of the steam train on Lake Valkenburg, as well as the neighboring towns of Scheveningen and Zandvoort via the cycle paths .
politics
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
The local elections on March 21, 2018 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Political party | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2005 a | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | |
| CDA | 7th | 10 | 8th | 7th | 7th |
| ChristenUnie | 5 | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5 |
| SGP | 4th | 5 | 5 | 6th | 5 |
| Community concerns | 5 | 7th | 7th | 4th | 3 |
| Hart Voor Katwijk | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| DURF | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| VVD | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| PvdA | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Gravel Katwijk | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| D66 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| De local | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| Jezus Leeft | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| OPA Katwijk | - | - | - | 0 | - |
| Democratic Onafhankelijk En Lokaal | - | 0 | 0 | - | - |
| Christelijk Sociaal Katwijk | - | 0 | - | - | - |
| Bakens Verzetten Katwijk | 1 | 0 | - | - | - |
| GroenLinks | 0 | 0 | - | - | - |
| Liberaal burger issue | - | 0 | - | - | - |
| Protestants-Christelijk Katwijk | 1 | 0 | - | - | - |
| total | 27 | 33 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
mayor
Cornelis Visser ( CDA ) has been the acting mayor of the municipality since May 18, 2017 . His colleagues include the councilors Krijn van der Spijk (CDA), Gerard Mostert ( ChristenUnie ), Jacco Knape ( SGP ), Klaas Jan van der Bent (ChristenUnie) and the community secretary Wilfred Goedmakers .
Town twinning
literature
- AE van Balen-Chavannes (1972): Bibliography van de Geschiedenis van Zuid-Holland dead 1966 , publisher Culturele Raad van Zuid-Holland, Delft.
- J. van der Hucht (1969): Bibliographie en iconographie van both Katwijken en't Zand , Publisher Katwijk, Katwijk.
- John Silveris, JP van Brakel, R. Siebelhoff: Katwijk in de Schilderkunst. Museum Katwijk, 1995, ISBN 90-800304-4-9 .
- EW Petrejus: De bomschuit: een scheepstype. (= Museum voor Land- en Volkerkunde en het Maritiern Museum “Prins Hendrik”. No. 2). Rotterdam 1954, OCLC 23088615 .
- Kees Stal: De storm van 1894, de ramp die Scheveningen a nieuw gezicht gaf. Museum Scheveningen, 1994, ISBN 90-389-0282-4 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Dirk Kuyt (* 1980), football player
- Esther Ouwehand (* 1976), animal rights activist and politician (Partij voor de Dieren)
- Charley Toorop (1891–1955), painter and lithographer
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
- ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 2, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682) is known for his wide-ranging variety of landscape painting motifs, ranging from seascapes, beach scenes, inland landscapes and the panorama.
- ^ Walter Bernt: The Dutch painters and draftsmen of the 17th century. Vol. 3, Panel 1057, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1980, revised 4th edition, ISBN 3-7654 1767 X .
- ↑ Bernardus Johannes Blommers, or Bernard Blommers for short, belongs to the first generation of the Hague School and is known for his moral paintings.
- ↑ Eugen Dücker was responsible for landscape painting at the Düsseldorf School of Painting . With his cosmopolitan outlook on the personal development of the art student, he opened the way to impressionism and ultimately to modernism at this academy. In terms of art history, one also speaks of the Dücker line .
- ^ Wilhelm Hambüchen is a painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and is known for his landscape paintings and seascapes.
- ↑ Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897) was an English marine painter who had devoted himself to the technique of watercolor art and oil painting.
- ↑ Max Liebermann is one of the most important representatives of German impressionism.
- ↑ See cat .: German Grobe and the Düsseldorf School of Painting in Katwijk, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf 2016
- ↑ Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller had become friends with the painter Ludolph Berkemeier from Noordwijk and from here he went out to do outdoor painting .
- ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 2, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2002–2005 2010 2014 2018 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on June 2, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Cornelis Visser nieuwe burgemeester van Katwijk. In: Omroep West. March 20, 2017, accessed June 2, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ Samenstelling Gemeente Katwijk, accessed on June 2, 2018 (Dutch)
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