Rijswijk

( Listen? / I ) Rijswijk is a municipality in the Netherlands, South Holland province, with 47 351 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). The population has been declining slowly since 1999.

Location and economic

The municipality of Rijswijk is located east of The Hague and is a suburb of the Dutch city of residence. It is accessible from The Hague Central Station in just a few minutes by rail, but also by tram. Several highways to The Hague traverse the community.

Rijswijk, are an important laboratory complex of the TNO ( TNO is about the Dutch counterpart of the German Fraunhofer -Gesellschaft) and many offices, including the CBR. The CBR ( Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen = Central Office for driving licenses), the Netherlands has the licenses and determines and organizes the tests that need to be made ​​to preserve these documents. Also this authority sister organizations and driving schools advises abroad.

Rijswijk, there is also a large branch of the European Patent Office with around 2,900 staff. The oil company Royal Dutch Shell has a large research and training center in Rijswijk. In addition, a number of Dutch ministries have relocated certain departments from The Hague to Rijswijk.

History

Until about 270 here was a settlement of the Germanic Cananefaten or Caninefaten. Around 1200 a church was built around a farming community. In the area four castles were built, of which Te Werve was the most important.

In the 17th and 18th centuries Rijswijk was popular with the rich and powerful from The Hague. Even members of the House of Orange- Nassau, from which the Dutch royal family, made ​​it a palace build. In this "House Ter Nieuwburg " the peace of Ryswick was signed on September 20, 1697. In the 18th century fell into this mansion was eventually demolished. For the 95th anniversary of this peace a ( recently restored ) in 1792 in the park, which is located at the site of the former palace, built memorial column.

Between 1750 and 1920, Rijswijk was mainly a village of farmers, kept the milk cows. Then it became a suburb of the ever more growing neighbors The Hague.

In the first half of the 20th century the painter Adrianus Zwart lived in Rijswijk, Rijswijk his epoch is considered one of the last phases of the work of the Hague school ever.

Attractions

  • For families with children of primary school age: Leisure Drievliet ( between Easter and end of October).
  • In the center is a worth seeing church with a tower from about 1300, with inside inter alia a beautiful organ.
  • In the old Rijswijk are still some stately homes and mansions from the 18th century.
  • The local museum is located in one of these houses, where the poet Hendrik Tollens ( born in Rotterdam on September 24, 1780) died on 21 October 1856.
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