Liesveld (former municipality)
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Liesveld ( listen? / I ) was a town in the Dutch province of South Holland with 9790 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012).
The municipality was created Liesveld on 1 January 1986 by the merger of the municipalities Groot- Ammer, Langerak, Nieuwpoort and Streefkerk. The communities Graafstroom, Liesveld and Nieuw- Lekkerland were merged on 1 January 2013 for new community Molenwaard.
Places
The municipality consists of four places that have more than 500 inhabitants, namely:
- Groot- Ammer ( 3800 inhabitants), the seat of the municipal administration
- Langerak (1600 inhabitants)
- Nieuwpoort (1400 inhabitants); Nieuwpoort may call a city, the only place in the community Liesveld.
- Streefkerk (2900 inhabitants); known as orthodox Calvinist village where you usually leave the house only to go to church on Sunday.
In addition there are some farms, like Waal, Liesveld and Gelkenes ( industrial premises).
Location and economic
The municipality is located in the polder Alblasserwaard, south of the river Lek, opposite Schoonhoven.
Without a car, it is difficult to get here. On working days, once a bus between the stations Lombardijen Rotterdam and Utrecht CS, which crosses just halfway ( after an hour on the bus ) Liesveld hour. One can also come from Schoonhoven from the ferry to the industrial site at Nieuwpoort. Motorists reach Langerak and Nieuwpoort fastest on the A15 Tiel -Rotterdam, exit 27 Gorinchem, and then 15 km on a good, often straight highway.
In the village there is a shipyard for the construction of luxury yachts, and still further, especially metals manufacturing. Many residents are farmers who grow mainly dairy cattle or for growing potatoes.
History
The community Liesveld has received its name from the castle, whose name again reflects its single layer, namely the midst of wet meadows (read is a kind of grass).
Nieuwpoort, an old border fortress between the diocese of Utrecht and the County of Holland, received city rights in 1283. The city was always very small, but what is of strategic importance. When the French Nieuwpoort had occupied in 1672, it was 1673 then provided with modern bastions and other fortifications after the return to the Netherlands, who served until 1816 as a military point of support. The fort was not looped: the ramparts of the population served, and the surrounding villages, as flood protection. Rich Bauer had in the fortress city its own flood stable. After 1973, the fortification was declared a National Monument and carefully restored.
Streefkerk 1280 urkündlich mentioned for the first time as Strevelands. The village, however, is much older. It is situated on a donk, a small sandy hill on the bank. This was already Protestant village was devastated in 1575 during the Eighty Years' War of Spanish troops. The church newly manufactured it had in later times even several times to suffer from fires. According to G. van Berkel place name lexicon ( Nederlandse plaatsnamen, herkomst s history, ISBN 90-274-2097-1 ) the place name may be: unwilling country (compare German: resist ).
Groot Bunting was first attested in 1042. In the 14th century a sluice was built at the mouth of the river Ammer. The village knew then by fishing for salmon a short flowering time. In the village stood the Liesvelt castle. The title of a baron Van Liesvelt was bought in 1636 by Count William Frederick of Orange-Nassau, governor of Friesland, and has since been subject to the Dutch king, or queen.
Also in Langerak, whose name means long right piece of a river, was from the 13th to the 18th century a castle. The place has a long tradition as a rancher village.
The whole community had to suffer repeatedly until the beginning of the 20th century by floods, often with disastrous consequences.
Attractions
- Liesveld is known for storks village ( Ooievaarsdorp ) Het Liesveld, where were bred and reintroduced 1969-1999 storks, until the number of protected species birds had so increased that this system was obsolete. The stork is however still a frequent, welcome guest in the many meadows of the community.
- In the community there are (for water balance of the polder ) many of the typically Dutch windmills, of which 6 in Groot Ammer and 5 at Streefkerk.
- Nieuwpoort is worth seeing because of the well-preserved fortress where you can walk; in the inner city a town hall from the 18th century and a small, dreamy canal called Binnenhaven. There are several restaurants here.
Streefkerk, Bridge for wheels in the polder
Allocation of seats in the municipal council
- SGP / CU, 4 seats
- CDA, 3 seats
- Gemeentebelangen, 3 seats
- PvdA, 2 seats
- VVD, 1 seat