Leidschendam-Voorburg
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coat of arms |
province | South Holland |
mayor | Klaas Tigelaar ( ChristenUnie ) |
Seat of the municipality | Sorry |
Area - land - water |
35.62 km 2 32.63 km 2 2.99 km 2 |
CBS code | 1916 |
Residents | 75,449 (Jan 31, 2019) |
Population density | 2118 inhabitants / km 2 |
Coordinates | 52 ° 5 ' N , 4 ° 23' E |
Important traffic route | |
prefix | 070 |
Postcodes | 2261-2267, 2271-2275 |
Website | Homepage of Leidschendam-Voorburg |
Leidschendam-Voorburg ( municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland . It emerged from the merged towns of Leidschendam and Voorburg, which merged on January 1, 2002, and the small village of Stompwijk. According to the CBS, the municipality had 75,449 inhabitants on January 31, 2019 with a total area of 35.62 km². The city is the seat of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the Special Court for Sierra Leone .
) is aLocation and economy
The municipality is located immediately northeast of The Hague and can be regarded as its suburb . Voorburg has a train station on the Den Haag - Utrecht line . Leidschendam has a train station on the Den Haag - Leiden line . The highways between these cities, whose users are often plagued by traffic jams , also cross the community.
Most of the residents of Leidschendam-Voorburg are commuters who work in The Hague . To the southeast there is some agriculture and horticulture. There is a factory that makes elevators and several smaller commercial and industrial companies in the community. Several of the old mansions are used as facilities for people with disabilities, including the deaf .
history
It is possible that around 2700 BC there lived on the parish territory. BC people of the Vlaardingen culture .
In 47 the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo had the Corbulonis fossa dug here. Part of this Corbulo ditch still exists today as the Rijn-Schie Canal. The Forum Hadriani settlement , named after Emperor Hadrian in the year 121, was established in the Cananefaten area . However, around 270 the Romans had to evacuate this city.
Around 900 there was a village of Foreburg on a sand ridge and a settlement called “Veur” near today's Leidschendam on a brook called “ Vliet ”. Around 1200 a second village, Wilsveen, was built near Veur, but it no longer exists. In the area, which is boggy and swampy to the east, and whose polder could only be dry-ground by a large number of windmills, a lot of peat was extracted between around 1550 and 1800 . This created some lakes east of the municipality, which then had to be diked again, and where Zoetermeer is now .
The Hague poet Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) had the Hofwijck manor built in Voorburg . Other rich and influential people did the same. In doing so, the forest disappeared, giving way to the parks and gardens of the country manors. This demand also resulted in horticulture and the trade in ornamental plants. From around 1890, the place became important as a suburb, when simpler Hague officials, etc., had houses built here.
From May 1940 to May 9, 1945 Voorburg was occupied by Wehrmacht troops.
Attractions
The sights of Leidschendam and Voorburg each include a church; the one in Voorburg is late Gothic from the 15th century.
The windmill "De Vlieger" is set up as a museum.
The manor house " Hofwijck " and the former hostel "Swaenstein" each house a small museum (the latter also with finds from Roman times).
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 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | |
VVD | 10 | 10 | 8th | 9 |
Gemeentebelangen Leidschendam-Voorburg | 3 | 5 | 8th | 9 |
CDA | 7th | 6th | 5 | 5 |
D66 | 2 | 5 | 7th | 4th |
GroenLinks | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4th |
PvdA | 7th | 5 | 3 | 3 |
ChristenUnie / SGP | - | - | 1 | 1 |
DEAD | - | 1 | - | - |
Onafhankelijken Partij Leidschendam-Voorburg | 1 | 0 | - | - |
SP | 3 | - | - | - |
total | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
mayor
Klaas Tigelaar ( ChristenUnie ) has been the acting mayor of the community since September 5, 2016 . His staff includes the alderman Bianca Bremer ( Gemeentebelangen Leidschendam-Voorburg ), Lia de Ridder ( D66 ), Nadine Stemerdink ( PvdA ), Floor Kist ( GroenLinks ) and the community secretary André Huykman .
Town twinning
Leidschendam-Voorburg maintains city partnerships with
- Hranice , Czech Republic , since 1990
- Konstancin-Jeziorna , Poland , since 1994
- Temecula , United States , since 1993
sons and daughters of the town
- Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876), statesman, historian and publicist
- Koos van der Wildt (1905–1985), football player
- Willem van Genk (1927–2005), painter and graphic artist
- Einbert-Jan Langevoort (1929–1992), theologian
- Bertha Brouwer (1930-2006), sprinter
- André Middelhoek (* 1931), civil servant and President of the European Court of Auditors
- Jan M. Broekman (* 1931) philosopher, legal scholar and social scientist
- Gerben Karstens (* 1942), racing cyclist
- Alfred Vierling (* 1949), political activist
- Johan de Meij (* 1953), composer and conductor
- Johannes Willibrordus Maria Hendriks (* 1954), Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam
- Karel van Steenhoven (* 1958), recorder player, composer and university professor
- Frank Visser (* 1958), author, theosophist and religious psychologist
- Han Kulker (* 1959), middle-distance runner
- Peter Blangé (* 1964), volleyball player
- Carla Dik-Faber (* 1971), art historian and politician
- Kartika Liotard (1971–2020), lawyer and politician
- Robert Jensen (* 1973), television presenter
- Fulco van Gulik (* 1979), racing cyclist
- Eljero Elia (* 1987), football player
- Sanne van Kerkhof (* 1987), short tracker
- Maurice Vrijmoed (* 1988), racing cyclist
- Daryl Janmaat (* 1989), football player
- Inge Janssen (* 1989), rower
- Dylan van Baarle (* 1992), racing cyclist
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
- ↑ Taylor attorney refuses to make a closing statement. In: ORF . February 9, 2011, accessed February 9, 2011 .
- ↑ De Tweede Wereldoorlog 1943 - 1945
- ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2018 , accessed on June 4, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on June 4, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Klaas Tigelaar nieuwe burgemeester Leidschendam-Voorburg. In: Omroep West. May 27, 2016, accessed June 4, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ College van burgemeester en wethouders Gemeente Leidschendam-Voorburg, accessed on June 4, 2018 (Dutch)