Pijnacker-Nootdorp

Pijnacker - Nootdorp ( listen? / I ) is a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. It was created in 2002 by the merger of the former municipalities Nootdorp and Pijnacker.

Districts

  • Delfgauw ( with the settlement Oude Leede ), directly east of the city of Delft and the A13; Population ( 2008) about 8000
  • Nootdorp, east of Voorburg and The Hague, on the A12; Population ( 2008) 14,000
  • Pijnacker ( with the settlement Vlieland ), 3 km east of Delfgauw, seat of the municipal administration; Population ( 2008) 21,000

Allocation of seats in the municipal council

  • VVD, 7 seats
  • CDA, 5 seats
  • D66, 4 seats
  • Gemeentebelangen, 3 seats
  • Groen Links, 3 seats
  • PvdA, 3 seats
  • Leefbar Pijnacker - Nootdorp, 2 seats
  • CU / SGP 1 seat
  • Eerlijk Alternatief, 1 seat

Location and economic

The community is located just east of the cities of Delft, The Hague and Voorburg. The notorious for its traffic jams Hague motorway junction Prins Claus Plein is located very near Nootdorp, but which itself has an exit also.

Pijnacker has a small railway station on the eastern of the two railway lines Den Haag - Rotterdam. Nootdorp Pijnacker and ( 2) have a total of three stops on the so-called Randstadrail, one opened in 2007, fast S-Bahn The Hague / Rotterdam region. By 2009, one can indeed achieve with this train The Hague, Rotterdam but not yet.

Pijnacker - Nootdorp can be called a commuter town; Most flats have been built after 1975. Delfgauw is a suburb of Delft, the other two places are suburbs of The Hague. The population approach should rise to 2020 to about 64,000 because more new neighborhood is planned. For residents, there are plenty of parks and sports facilities, shopping centers, schools, etc. The formerly in the church its agriculture has declined sharply. The commercial areas provide space for offices, retail and other service companies and small businesses.

History

Nootdorp originated around 1280, when the Count of Holland Floris V. sold the marsh area for reclamation. The name is either not, groove = benefit, or nood = distress related needs: peat was here earlier stung, a useful product, what great need existed.

Delfgauw was built on a sand ridge, and Pijnacker to 1222 at a higher layer of clay in the fen.

All three of these places were until after the Second World War not very significant farming villages.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Adrianus Johannes "Jan" Janssen ( born 1940 ), cyclist
  • Leo Kouwenhoven ( b. 1963 ), Physicist
  • Mabel Wisse Smit ( b. 1968 ), Princess of Orange- Nassau and wife of Johan Friso of Orange- Nassau
  • Danick Snelder (* 1990), Women's Handball
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