Strijen
 flag |
 coat of arms |
| province |
 South Holland
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| local community |
 Hoeksche Waard
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Area - land - water |
57.7 km 2 50.26 km 2 7.44 km 2 |
| Residents | 8,816 (Sep 30, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 45 ′ N , 4 ° 33 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
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| prefix | 078 |
| Postcodes | 3291-3293 |
| Website | Strijen's homepage |
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Strijen ( ) was a municipality in the Netherlands , province of Zuid-Holland . It had a population of 8,816 on September 30, 2018. Its total area was 57.7 km², of which 7.44 km² was inland water.
The municipality consisted of the village Strijen and three small towns. These included Strijensas, which is located on Hollands Diep and has a marina. On January 1, 2019, it was merged with the municipalities of Cromstrijen , Korendijk , Oud-Beijerland and Binnenmaas to form the new municipality of Hoeksche Waard .
Location, economy, sights
The village of Strijen is located on the island of Hoeksche Waard , not far from Dordrecht . Most of the residents make a living from cattle breeding or are commuters who work in Rotterdam or Dordrecht. In Strijen there is a late Gothic village church from the 15th century.
history
A document according to which Strijen would have been founded in 992 has turned out to be a forgery. The place owes its name to a small stream called Striene . After all, Strijen already existed in the 13th century. The St. Elisabeth flood (1421) separated it from today's Noord-Brabant . Most of the village burned down in 1759. Other disasters were a bombing on 14 May 1940, when the Second World War and Rotterdam was hit, and the North Sea flood of 1953 .
politics
fusion
The municipalities of Binnenmaas , Cromstrijen , Korendijk , Oud-Beijerland and Strijen were merged into a new municipality with the name Hoeksche Waard on January 1st, 2019 .
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
The local elections on March 19, 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats:
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | |
| CDA | 4th | 4th | 3 | 3 |
| VVD | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Strijens concern | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| GroenLinks | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| ChristenUnie / SGP | - | - | - | 2 |
| PvdA | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ChristenUnie | - | - | 1 | - |
| SGP | 1 | 0 | 0 | - |
| total | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Due to the merger on January 1, 2019, the elections for the council of the new Hoeksche Waard municipality took place on November 21, 2018.
mayor
Jan Waaijer ( CDA ) was acting mayor of the municipality from October 10, 2016 to December 31, 2018 . His colleagues included the alderman Geràldo Janssen (CDA), Wilko van Tilborg ( VVD ), Paulien Tanja ( PvdA ) and the municipal secretary Marko Does .
Sons and daughters of the church
- Jan Egbert de Vries (* 1944), immunologist
- Anton Corbijn (* 1955), photographer and film director
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch)
- Website about the future of the municipalities in Hoeksche Waard (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed January 1, 2019 (Dutch)
- ↑ Bestuurlijke toekomst Hoeksche Waard Gemeente Strijen, accessed on June 11, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Result of the local elections: 2010 2014 , accessed on June 11, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2002 2006 2010 2014 , accessed on June 11, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Informatiebijeenkomst gemeenteraadsverkiezingen gemeente Hoeksche Waard Gemeente Strijen, accessed on June 11, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ January Waaijer gaat aan de slag as nieuwe burgemeester van Strijen. In: Omroep West. October 1, 2016, accessed June 11, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ Samenstelling -college van B&W Gemeente Strijen, accessed on June 11, 2018 (Dutch)