Wieldrecht
Wieldrecht is a former office and later a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland . The place is now a neighborhood within the city of Dordrecht , in the far west of this city, on the Dordtsen Kil .
history
The community of Wieldrecht goes back to the Middle Ages; in the Elizabeth flood of 1421 it was flooded like other villages in the Dordrecht Waard . The splendid rights over Wieldrecht were not revoked and when the land slowly dried up again, Wieldrecht emerged again, initially as part of the also rebuilt town of Dubbeldam . A real village center did not develop, however. Wieldrecht found the greatest importance as the location for the ferry to 's-Gravendeel .
In the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Wieldrecht briefly formed an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Dubbeldam (eastern part and village) and 's-Gravendeel (western part, beyond the Dordtsen Kil) in 1856 , together with De Mijl . Shortly before its dissolution, the entire community had 502 inhabitants. In 1940 the village was almost completely destroyed by acts of war in the Battle of Dordrecht. It has belonged to the municipality of Dordrecht since 1960 . In 1977 the ferry to 's-Gravendeel was closed because a tunnel under the Dordtsen Kil had made it superfluous.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Census of the Netherlands, 1849 ( MS Excel ; 195 kB)