Moerdijk

This article deals with the city, for the mathematician see Ieke Moerdijk .

Moerdijk municipality

flag	coat of arms
province	North Brabant
mayor	Jac Klijs ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality	Zevenbergen
Area  - land  - water	184.03  km 2 159.15 km 2 24.88 km 2
CBS code	1709
Residents	36,976 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	201 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	51 ° 39 ′  N , 4 ° 32 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′  N , 4 ° 32 ′  E
Important traffic route
prefix	0168
Postcodes	4758-4759, 4761-4762, 4765, 4771-4772, 4781-4782, 4791, 4793-4794, 4796-4797
Website	moerdijk.nl

Moerdijk ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Netherlands , Noord-Brabant . Their total area is about 184 km². It has 36,976 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019).

geography

places

The municipality includes the towns of Willemstad and Klundert, the villages of Fijnaart , Heijningen, Moerdijk, Standdaarbuiten, Zevenbergen and Zevenbergschen Hoek and a few other small towns. The municipality's town hall is located in Zevenbergen.

Location and economy

The municipality is located on the south bank of the Hollands Diep in the north of the province of Noord-Brabant and has a bridge connection with Zuid-Holland .

Zevenbergen has a train station on the Dordrecht - Roosendaal line . The motorway between these two cities also crosses the municipality.

The village of Moerdijk, created by a dike in the moor , is best known for the railway bridge built in 1872, at that time one of the longest in Europe, and the car bridge built in 1936, now converted into a motorway bridge, over the Hollands Diep. The bridges connect Noord-Brabant and Zuid-Holland and were therefore fiercely contested on May 10, 1940, the first day of the Western campaign in World War II .

To the west of the village of Moerdijk is a huge industrial area, where, among other things, a chemical plant belonging to the Shell group and a large electricity company are located. Fijnaart forms the north of a large area where a lot of sugar beet is grown and almost all of the Netherlands' sugar production is concentrated. RWE erected on behalf of Essent the gas and steam turbine power plant Moerdijk 2 426 MW. The 330 MW combined heat and power plant Moerdijk 1 was shut down in early 2018.

Moerdijk is one of more than 20 locations of the 'Ardagh Glass Group' for the manufacture of container glass in Europe.

history

In the Middle Ages, the area belonged to the county of Strijen, which was politically linked to Holland . In 1421 it was hit by the St. Elisabeth flood, killing many people. This created the Hollands Diep and the municipality was separated from Holland. In 1572 there were almost 100 Anabaptists who met in the house of Jan Pieters in Klundert; During a raid by the Schultheiss and his people, some women and six men were captured, tortured and burned. In 1583 William of Orange had the towns of Klundert and Willemstad, which was named after him, expanded into small fortress towns. Moritz von Nassau had it improved in 1602, and a beautiful town hall was built in both places. Willemstad remained a garrison town for over two centuries .

In 1845 the first railway coming from Belgium was built. Because the bridge was still missing, she used a ferry . The port was built in 1858, the railway bridge in 1872. In the meantime, sugar production had become more important than the production of linen from flax , which was beneficial for the economic development of the area. In 1953 Fijnaart and Heijningen were badly hit by the flood disaster .

On January 1, 1997, the municipality was established in its current form, but was still called Zevenbergen until March 31, 1998.

On January 5, 2011, there was a major fire in the Shell chemical works. The extinguishing work continued until the next day. During this time, there was the highest level of alert in Moerdijk and neighboring Dordrecht. There was also an explosion there on June 3, 2014, followed by a fire in which small amounts of ethylbenzene were released.

Attractions

Willemstad has a small historic town center, with many well-restored buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a typical Dutch fortified town . The city fortifications from 1602 have seven bastions , one for each province of the then Republic of the Netherlands. It was restored in the 1980s. Willemstad also has two marinas and some good restaurants. The Mannetje van Willemstad was found nearby .

Klundert owns a town hall. In a museum, the production of sugar from sugar beet and the processing of flax into linen are explained. Klundert also has a small marina.

politics

The local party Onafhankelijk Moerdijk won the local elections in 2018 and lost around nine percent compared to the election victory in 2014. In the 2018–2022 legislative period, it forms a coalition with the CDA and VVD parties .

Municipal council

Local election on March 21, 2018

Turnout: 50.64%

 %

30th

20th

10

0

23.32

19.37

14.16

14.15

7.92

6.38

5.57

4.70

4.42

n. k.

OM ^a

VVD

CDA

ML ^d

PvdA

SP

CU

BBM ^h

D66

GL

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

 16

 14th

 12

 10

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-9.68

+4.64

-3.45

+14.15

+0.82

-3.85

± 0.00

-2.67

+4.42

-4.39

OM ^a

VVD

CDA

ML ^d

PvdA

SP

CU

BBM ^h

D66

GL

Remarks:

^a Onafhankelijk Moerdijk

^d Moerdijk Lokaal

^h Burger Matters Moerdijk

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1982:

Political party	Seats
	1996	1999	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018
Onafhankelijk Moerdijk a	-	-	10	8th	9	9	6th
VVD	4th	5	3	3	4th	4th	5
CDA	6th	6th	6th	5	5	4th	4th
Moerdijk Lokaal	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th
PvdA	4th	3	3	4th	3	2	2
SP	-	-	-	2	1	2	1
ChristenUnie	-	-	1	1	1	1	1
Burger Matters Moerdijk	-	-	-	-	-	2	1
D66	0	-	-	-	-	-	1
GroenLinks	1	3	2	2	2	1	-
Hoekse Lijst	3	3	-	-	-	-	-
Lijst Noordhoek	3	2	-	-	-	-	-
Vrije Lijst			-	-	-	-	-
Gemeentebelangen Fijnaart en Heijningen			-	-	-	-	-
Community concerns	2	2	-	-	-	-	-
RPF	1	1	-	-	-	-	-
GPV			-	-	-	-	-
General concern	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
total	25th	25th	25th	25th	25th	25th	25th

Remarks

^a Onafhankelijk Moerdijk emerged from the merger of Algemeen Belang , Hoekse Lijst , Gemeentebelangen and Lijst Noordhoek / Vrije Lijst / Gemeentebelangen Fijnaart en Heijningen .

College van B&W

The coalition parties CDA and VVD are each represented by an alderman in the College van burgemeester en wethouders , while the local party Onafhankelijk Moerdijk has two alderman. The following people belong to the college and have the following departments:

function	Surname	Political party	Department	annotation
mayor	Jac Klijs	CDA	integral security, surveillance and enforcement, legal affairs, personnel and organization, (regional) cooperation, integrity policy	in office since September 5, 2011
Alderman	Thomas Zwiers	VVD	Economy, work and income, education (connection of education to the labor market), mobility	first deputy mayor
	Eef Schoneveld	Onafhankelijk Moerdijk	Care, education, welfare, youth	second deputy mayor
	Désirée Brummans	CDA	Spatial planning, living, public space, sustainability	third deputy mayor
	Jack van Dorst	Onafhankelijk Moerdijk	Goods, communication, (residents) participation, services and information technology, equipment and administration of public space, collecting waste and raw materials	fourth deputy mayor
Community Secretary	Monique van Bavel	-	-	in office since March 2017

Daughters and sons of the city

• Wim van Est (1923–2003), racing cyclist, born in Fijnaart

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  Willemstad

Web links

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

• Website of the Moerdijk community (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
2. ↑ Bruggenhoofd Moerdijk (Dutch)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Moerdijk power plant
4. ^ Ardagh Glass Moerdijk BV
5. ↑ Peter Hoover: Baptism of Fire. The radical life of the Anabaptists - a provocation . Down to Earth, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-935992-23-7 , pp. 16-19
6. ↑ Injured after violent explosions in the chemical plant . Mirror online
7. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the local elections: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on June 10, 2019 (Dutch)
8. ^ Portfolio Verdeling College . In: moerdijk.nl . Gemeente Moerdijk, accessed June 10, 2019 (Dutch)
9. ↑ Martin Ommering: Jac Klijs wordt de nieuwe burgemeester van Moerdijk. In: BN DeStem . De Persgroep Nederland , June 1, 2011, accessed June 10, 2019 (Dutch).