List of cities in the Netherlands
This is a list of the places in the Netherlands that have ever been granted city rights. It is not known for all cities when they received their town charter.
Since the constitution was changed in 1848, the “town charter” of a locality (plaats) no longer has any constitutional or administrative significance; instead, there is only the municipality (gemeente) . Some cities had remained small towns in their development and were partially merged with other, larger towns in the area to form new municipalities, which were then occasionally given a completely new name, such as Bernisse , to which Geervliet belongs today. Staverden , one of the smallest ("former") towns in the Netherlands, is now part of the municipality of Ermelo, a "village". Schellinkhout first came to Venhuizen and then to Drechterland, at Winkel it was first Niedorp , today it's Hollands Kroon. The “towns” of Genemuiden and Hasselt (Overijssel) now belong to the municipality of Zwartewaterland .
List with year of granting city rights
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See also
- Regarding the status of the municipality: Municipality (Netherlands)
- List of all municipalities: List of Dutch municipalities
- Information on larger municipalities: List of the largest municipalities in the Netherlands
Notes and evidence
- ↑ Napoleonic Plans for a City, 1806
- ↑ Deventer was named urbs as early as 952 in a deed of donation from King Otto I to the Mauritius Monastery in Magdeburg
- ↑ already in Roman times, later a free imperial city
- ^ Oisterwijk website
- ↑ Oosterhout website ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2009 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.
- ↑ One source mentions Utrecht as early as 766 “urbs”. In the year 936 Otto I (the great) gave her the right to mint.
