Leimuiden

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Leimuiden
Flag of Leimuiden
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Coat of arms of the village of Leimuiden
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province South Holland South Holland
local community Flag of the municipality of Kaag en Braassem Kaag en Braassem
Area
 - land
 - water
12.26  km 2
11.96 km 2
0.3 km 2
Residents 4,360 (Jan 1, 2017)
Coordinates 52 ° 13 ′  N , 4 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′  N , 4 ° 40 ′  E
Important traffic route N207
prefix 0172
Postcodes 1424, 1431, 1433, 2155-2156, 2377, 2451, 2461, 2465, 7064
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Leimuiden from the south
Dutch Reformed Village Church

Leimuiden is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland . Since January 1st, 2009 Leimuiden belongs to the municipality of Kaag en Braassem , before that to the municipality of Jacobswoude . Leimuiden is on the road ( Dutch Provinciale Weg ) N207 north of the town of Alphen aan den Rijn .

etymology

Liethemuton , Leijthemuthe , Leithemutha , Laymuien , Leimuijen , Lemuyden , Leijmuijden , Leymuiden or Leimuiden , means: mouth of the Lede, Lei or Liethe. It has not been established whether the Lede river actually ran further north (near the former island of Beinsdorp) here or not, and whether the residents of that time moved from their residential area to today's Leimuiden as a result of flooding. Historical maps from the 17th century actually show a river called Oude Leymuyden , which flows into the Drecht on the side of the Herenweg road .

Location and economy

The village is located in the northern tip of the Het Groene Hart nature reserve, which is ecologically important for the Randstad agglomeration . With its corridors and bodies of water, the Groene Hart is an attraction for tourism, especially for water sports.

Schiphol International Airport is located further north in the adjacent Haarlemmermeer Polder , around 11 km away. It has a major impact on economic activity in the area. The old moor river Drecht runs south of the village, the Braassemermeer lake to the south-west and the Westeinder Plassen lake to the east . The surrounding lands used to be bogs where peat was cut. The adjacent ring canal Ringvaart was used for transport. The low-lying areas (up to 4 m below sea level) are called polders and are used for agriculture today.

Living by the water in Leimuiden

history

The first settlers of the swampy area came from the area of ​​the Roman Limes near Albania , today's Alphen aan den Rijn , which at that time - in the 4th century AD - had already been abandoned by the Romans. Trade routes, for example the Herenweg between Alphen aan den Rijn and Amsterdam, have been strengthened over the centuries . The village of Leimuiden came into being at the intersection of the Herenweg and the Drecht.

10th and 11th centuries

The name Liethemuton is already mentioned in old documents of the Count of Holland from 1040 . After that, Leimuiden is not mentioned again until 1063. The 21st Bishop of Utrecht, Wilhelmus , gives the Abbot of Echternach in a deed dated December 28th the right to dispose of half of the income of several churches in Holland, including those of Leimuiden and the neighboring settlements of Woubrugge and Rijnsaterwoude .

12th to 16th centuries

In 1156 Leijthemuthe came again in a document to Count Dietrich VI. of Holland , in which Geradus , also Abbot of Echternach, again renounced the income from the above-mentioned churches and chapels. In the 12th or 13th century the wooden dome of the village church was replaced by a new one made of stone.

17th and 18th centuries

Many merchant ships drove over the Drecht from the mouth of the Rhine to Amsterdam; this route was shorter than the one via Haarlem and Spaarndam . There was also a lot of traffic on the aforementioned Herenweg between Amsterdam, Alphen aan den Rijn, Gouda and Rotterdam . It is said that councilors from Haarlem infiltrated the Leimuiden village council in order to deliberately narrow the passage. As a result, larger ships took the other route from then on, and the income for Leimuiden fell noticeably.

Leimuiden was then owned by the Van Wassenaar family from Warmond . In 1666, Johan van Wassenaar began to dry up the Wassenaarse Polder , southeast of Leimuiden . This polder was put into use in 1678. In the following years the area was inherited by Fransiscus Paulus Emilius , Count of Oultremont and Warfusé .

Finally, on March 13, 1728, Leimuiden and Vriezekoop were sold to Amsterdam by Mayor Geelvinck for 42,000 guilders .

19th and 20th centuries

Today's village square was opened on September 17, 1806 after the old buildings were demolished in 1772.

New drawbridge in Leimuiden, winter 2007

In 1862 the old wooden bridge over the Drecht was replaced by a drawbridge and from then until 1953, through tolls were levied. That year the concrete bridge for the new provincial road N207 was opened. In 1912 a station on the Haarlemmermeer Railway was opened near the bridge over the Ringvaart, which connected the village with Leiden and Hoofddorp . However, the operation of this line was stopped again in 1952. In 1991 the neighboring municipalities of Leimuiden, Rijnsaterwoude and Woubrugge merged to form Jacobswoude .

21st century

On January 1, 2009, the municipalities of Jacobswoude (with the Leimuiden district) and Alkemade will merge. The new name of the merged municipality is Kaag en Braassem .

Attractions

  • A number of old farms and houses in Willem van de Veldeweg (No. 8, 43, 69) and Noordeinde Street (No. 5)
  • Dutch Reformed Church, built in the 17th century
  • Roman Catholic Church
  • Pastor's house and the entrance gate to the cemetery

Well-known Leimuidener

  • Bob de Jong (1976), Olympic champion and world record holder in speed skating
  • Michael Buskermolen, well-known footballer in the Netherlands
  • Herman Krott, founder of the "Amstel Gold Race" and former team leader of the Amstel beer amateur cycling club
  • Addy Koster, 2005 the first Dutch master in Bonaken (Dutch card game, somewhat comparable to Skat )

literature

  • Overzicht van de Nederlandse spoor- en tramwegbedrijven , JW Sluiter, ISBN 90-5345-224-9 .
  • De Cope, Bijdrage tot de rechtsgeschiedenis van de openlegging der Hollands-Utrechtse laagvlakte , H. van der Linden, ISBN 90-6469-601-2 .
  • De oudste kerken van Holland , Elizabeth den Hartog, ISBN 90-5345-218-4 .
  • De geschiedenis van een grensgeval , J. Lunenburg.

Web links

Commons : Leimuiden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 2, 2018 (Dutch)