Voorne aan Zee
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The municipality of Voorne aan Zee was formed on 1 January 2023, through the merger of the former municipalities of Brielle, Hellevoetsluis and Westvoorne, which itself was formed on 1 January 1980, through the merger of the former municipalities Oostvoorne and Rockanje.[1]
It consists of the towns Brielle and Hellevoetsluis, the villages Nieuwenhoorn, Nieuw-Helvoet, Oostvoorne, Oudenhoorn, Rockanje, Tinte, Vierpolders and Zwartewaal, the water board neighbourhood Oude en Nieuwe Struiten, and the hamlet Helhoek.
Notable people
- Jacob van Maerlant (ca.1230–40 – ca.1288–1300), a Flemish poet of the 13th century, an important Middle Dutch author of the Middle Ages
- Maarten Tromp (1598 in Brielle – 1653), a Dutch army general and admiral in the Dutch navy
- Witte de With (1599 in Hoogendijk – 1658), a Dutch naval officer during the Eighty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch War
- Volkert Simon Maarten van der Willigen (1822–1878), a Dutch mathematician, physicist and professor
- Jan Greshoff (1888 in Nieuw-Helvoet – 1971), a Dutch journalist, poet, and literary critic
- Belinda Meuldijk (born 1955), a Dutch actress, writer, and activist [2]
- Meindert van Buuren (born 1995), a Dutch racing driver
Gallery
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Tinte, chapel
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Church in Hellevoetsluis
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Rockanje, windmill
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Brielle, church: de Sint Catharijne kerk
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Brielle, monumental houses at the Wellerondom
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Tweede Slag, Rockanje. Monument honouring executed resistance members during WWII.
References
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- ↑ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
- ↑ IMDb Database retrieved 31 May 2019
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