Wijk bij Duurstede

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Municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede
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flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede
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province Utrecht Utrecht
mayor Iris Meerts ( PvdA )
Seat of the municipality Wijk bij Duurstede
Area
 - land
 - water 		50.30  km 2
47.69 km 2
2.61 km 2
CBS code 0352
Residents 23,766 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 472 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 51 ° 59 ′  N , 5 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′  N , 5 ° 21 ′  E
Important traffic route N227 N229
prefix 0343
Postcodes 3945, 3947, 3960-3962
Website Homepage of Wijk bij Duurstede
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Wijk bij Duurstede, street next to the church tower

Wijk bij Duurstede ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality and a city in the south of the province of Utrecht . Wijk bij Duurstede has 23,766 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019). The municipality includes the villages of Cothen (about 2900 inhabitants) and Langbroek (south of Driebergen, municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug , about 2100 inhabitants). Audio file / audio sample

Location and economy

Wijk bij Duurstede is located on the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal and the Nederrijn . The Nederrijn is divided here: in the further course these are the Lek and the Kromme Rijn .
See also: on the map “Course of the Lek” enlarged on the far right: Wijk bij Duurstede and the waters mentioned.

The municipality borders on the municipalities of Houten , Bunnik , Utrechtse Heuvelrug and Buren (Gelderland) . The arable and fruit growing, some tourism and a brick and concrete factory are of economic importance.

history

In the early Middle Ages , the important trading town of Dorestad was located on the site of Wijk bij Duurstede . After their fall in the 9th century, the area became deserted. A knight named Zweder van Abcoude had a residential tower built here in the 13th century. As a souvenir of Dorestad, he named the building Duurstede. A settlement developed around it, which received city rights in 1300. From 1399 to 1405 Friedrich von Blankenheim had the Maria Magdalena monastery built and settled it with sisters from the Schönensteinbach monastery .

The new Duurstede Castle was inhabited in the 15th century by the influential David of Burgundy (* 1427, † 1496), who was then Prince-Bishop of Utrecht and thus also the secular sovereign. After the Reformation , the castle came into the hands of the states of Utrecht and, when the French destroyed the town during a war campaign in 1672, the inhabitants of Wijks razed it down to two strong towers: they used the stones to rebuild their houses.

To this day, Wijk is a quiet, somewhat “out of the way” provincial town.

Attractions

Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael : The mill at Wijk bij Duurstede , 1670
  • The old town, with its old houses, the large church from the 14th to 15th centuries and the gate on the dike with a windmill . The mill in the picture by Ruisdael was in a different place from today's windmill.
  • The Museum Dorestad (local history museum), with important exhibits from the ruins of Dorestad; in addition small changing exhibitions; only open in the afternoon
  • The area around Langbroek is rich in small pleasure palaces from the 17th to 19th centuries; There is a cycle path to Huis Doorn (see: Utrechtse Heuvelrug )
  • The ruins of the castle with the two mighty towers (a round, so-called donjon and a square tower have been preserved) were integrated into a park in 1852 by the famous landscape architect Jan David Zocher ; Parts of the ruin have been restored. There is also a "party center" (rooms for events).

Town twinning

Web links

Commons : Wijk bij Duurstede  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Wyck te Duerstet in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nieuwe burgemeester in Wijk bij Duurstede. In: rijksoverheid.nl. Rijksoverheid, December 6, 2019, accessed December 17, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Website about the former monastery ( Memento from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )