Liesveld
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 South Holland
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| local community | Molenlanden |
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Area - land - water |
44.4 km 2 40.98 km 2 3.42 km 2 |
| Residents | 9,770 (Dec. 31, 2012) |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 54 ' N , 4 ° 48' E |
| Important traffic route |
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| prefix | 0184 |
| Postcodes | 2959, 2964-2968 |
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Liesveld ( ) was a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland with 9,770 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012).
The municipality of Liesveld was created on January 1, 1986 through the merger of the previous municipalities of Groot-Ammers, Langerak, Nieuwpoort and Streefkerk. The municipalities of Graafstroom , Liesveld and Nieuw-Lekkerland were merged on January 1, 2013 to form the new municipality of Molenwaard , which has been part of Molenlanden since 2019 .
places
The municipality included four places with over 500 inhabitants, namely:
- Groot-Ammers (3800 inhabitants), seat of the municipal administration
- Langerak (1600 inhabitants)
- Nieuwpoort (1400 inhabitants); Nieuwpoort is the only place in the municipality of Liesveld to call itself a city.
- Streefkerk (2900 inhabitants); known as an orthodox Calvinist village, where on Sundays you usually only leave the house to go to church.
There are also some farmsteads, such as Waal, Liesveld and Gelkenes (with industrial sites).
Location and economy
The community is located in the Alblasserwaard polder , south of the Lek river , across from Schoonhoven .
It is difficult to get here without a car. On weekdays a bus runs once an hour between the train stations Rotterdam Lombardijen and Utrecht CS, which crosses Liesveld halfway (after an hour on the bus). You can also take the ferry from Schoonhoven to the industrial site near Nieuwpoort. The quickest way for drivers to reach Langerak and Nieuwpoort is via the A15 Tiel - Rotterdam , exit 27 Gorinchem , and then 15 km via a good, often dead straight country road.
In the community there is a shipyard for the construction of luxury yachts, as well as other mainly metal processing industries. Many residents are farmers who predominantly raise dairy cattle or grow potatoes.
history
The municipality of Liesveld got its name from the castle of the same name, the name of which reflects its only location, namely in the middle of damp meadows ( lies is a kind of grass).
Nieuwpoort , an old border fortress between the diocese of Utrecht and the county of Holland , received town charter in 1283. The city always remained very small, but that was of strategic importance. When the French took Nieuwpoort in 1672, after it was returned to the Netherlands in 1673, bastions and other fortifications were modern at the time and served as a military base until 1816. The fortress was not demolished: the walls served the population, including the surrounding villages, as flood protection. Rich farmers had their own flood stables in the fortress city. After 1973 the city fortifications were placed under monument protection and carefully restored.
Streefkerk is first mentioned in 1280 as Strevelands . But the village is much older. It is on a donk , a small sand hill on the river bank. The then Protestant village was ravaged by Spanish troops in 1575 during the Eighty Years War . The newly built church suffered from fires several times in later times. According to G. van Berkel place names lexicon ( Nederlandse plaatsnamen, herkomst s history , ISBN 90-274-2097-1 ) the place name means may: unwilling country (compare German: resist).
Groot Ammers was first attested in 1042. In the 14th century a lock was built at the mouth of the Ammers River. The village then experienced a brief period of prosperity from the salmon fishery . Liesvelt Castle was in the village. The title of Baron Van Liesvelt was bought in 1636 by Count Wilhelm Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau, governor of Friesland, and has since been reserved for the King or Queen of the Netherlands.
In Langerak , whose name means a long stretch of the right river , there was a castle from the 13th to the 18th century. The place has a long tradition as a cattle breeding village.
Up until the beginning of the 20th century, the whole community suffered from floods several times, often with devastating consequences.
Attractions
- Liesveld is known for the storks village (Ooievaarsdorp) Het Liesveld , where from 1969 to 1999 Storks were bred and reintroduced until the number of those under the protection of species standing birds had increased so that this plant was unnecessary. The stork is still an often seen and welcome guest in the many meadows of the community.
- In the municipality there are (for the water balance of the polder) many of the typical Dutch windmills , 6 of them at Groot Ammers and 5 at Streefkerk.
- Nieuwpoort is worth seeing because of the well-preserved fortifications where you can walk; in the city center a town hall from the 18th century and a small, dreamy canal called the Binnenhaven . There are several restaurants here.
Streefkerk, mill: de Liefde
Streefkerk, bridge for bikes in the polder
politics
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | |
| ChristenUnie / SGP | - | 4th | 4th | 4th |
| Gemeentebelangen Liesveld | - | 2 | 3 | 4th |
| CDA | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PvdA | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| VVD | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| SGP / RPF / GPV | 4th | - | - | - |
| total | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Personalities
- Ad Dekkers (born March 21, 1938 in Nieuwpoort; † February 27, 1974 in Gorinchem ), sculptor and relief artist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on June 5, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1998–2002 2006 2010 , accessed on June 5, 2018 (Dutch)