Leidschendam-Voorburg

Leidschendam- Voorburg ( listen? / I ) is a municipality of the Dutch province of South Holland. It originated from the coalesced places Leidschendam and Voorburg, which merged on 1 January 2002 and the small village Stompwijk. The community numbered on 1 January 2013 as declared by the CBS 72 561 inhabitants in a total area of 35.6 km ². The city is the seat of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Location and economic

The community is located immediately northeast of The Hague and can be considered as its suburb. Voorburg has a station on the line The Hague - Utrecht. Leidschendam has a station on the line The Hague - Leiden. Even the highways between these cities whose users are often plagued by congestion, traverse the community.

Most of the inhabitants of Leidschendam- Voorburg are commuters who have their work in The Hague. To the southeast there is some agriculture and horticulture. In the village is a factory that manufactures elevators, and a few small commercial and industrial establishments. Several of the old mansions are as an institution for the disabled, including for the deaf in use.

History

Possibly lived within the territory of the municipality around 2700 BC People of the Vlaardingen culture.

In AD 47, the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo the fossa Corbulonis was excavated here. This Corbulo trench is partly still considered Rijn - Schie canal. In the area of ​​the settlement Caninefaten Forum Hadriani, named after Emperor Hadrian in the year 121 was. To 270 the Romans, however, this city had to leave.

Around 900 there were, on a sand ridge, a village Foreburg, and the present Leidschendam, on a " Vliet " Bach said a settlement " Veur ". Around 1200 came at Veur a second village, Wilsveen that no longer exists, however. In the area that is swampy and marshy back to the east, and its polders were dry milled by very many windmills, much peat was mined between about 1550 and 1800. Thus, the community came east some lakes, which then had to be dammed again, and where now Zoetermeer is situated.

The Hague poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) was to build the mansion Hofwijck in Voorburg. Other rich and influential people made ​​das. Thus disappeared the forest and made the parks and gardens of the mansions place. Due to this demand also horticulture and trade in ornamental plants originated. From about 1890, the city as a suburb of importance was, as well as simpler Hague officials, etc. here could build houses.

Attractions

Places of interest in Leidschendam and Voorburg counts each of a church; those in Voorburg is late Gothic from the 15th century.

The Windmill " De Vlieger " is a museum.

The mansion " Hofwijck " and the former hostel " Swaenstein " can house up to a small museum (the latter also with finds from the Roman period ).

Twinning

Leidschendam- Voorburg is twinned with

  • Hranice Czech Republic, Czech Republic, since 1990
  • Poland Konstancin- Jeziorna, Poland, since 1994
  • United States Temecula, California, United States, since 1993

Sons and daughters of the city

  • Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801-1876), statesman, historian and publicist
  • Koos van der Wildt (1905-1985), football player
  • Willem van Genk (1927-2005), painter and graphic artist
  • Einbert -Jan Langevoort (1929-1993), theologian
  • Bertha Brouwer (1930-2006), sprinter
  • André Middelhoek (* 1931), an official and President of the European Court of Auditors
  • Gerben Karstens ( born 1942 ), cyclist
  • Alfred Vierling ( born 1949 ), political activist
  • Johan de Meij ( born 1953 ), composer and conductor
  • Karel van Steen Hoven (* 1958), recorder player, composer and university teacher
  • Frank Visser (born 1958 ), author, theosophist, and psychologist of religion
  • Han Kulker (* 1959), middle-distance runner
  • Peter Blangé (born 1964 ), volleyball player
  • Kartika Liotard (born 1971 ), lawyer and politician
  • Robert Jensen (born 1973 ), TV presenter
  • Fulco van Gulik ( born 1979 ), cyclist
  • Eljero Elia ( * 1987), football player
  • Maurice Vrijmoed (* 1988), cyclist
  • Dylan van Baarle (* 1992), cyclist
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