Midden-Delfland
( Listen? / I ) Midden- Delfland is a congregation of the Dutch province of South Holland and counted on 1 January 2013 as declared by the CBS 18,243 inhabitants. Their total area is 49.38 km ². It was created on 1 January 2004 by the merger of two previously independent municipalities Maasland and Schipluiden.
Places
At this municipality includes the villages:
- Schipluiden, where is the seat of the municipal administration;
- Maasland, the canal Gaag;
- Den Hoorn in Delft (not to be confused with the village of the same name on the Wadden Sea island of Texel ).
Location and economic
The community is located east of the municipality of Westland, north of Maassluis and Vlaardingen and south-west of Delft.
Just east of Schipluiden there is a connection point on the unfinished A4. In Delft, the closest station is found.
Its economy relies mainly - as everywhere in the county of Westland - on horticulture ( greenhouses). Maasland also has some industry, and there are in the eastern half of the local area some livestock. Schipluiden has a large flower and vegetable auction.
Famous people
- Agnes van Ardenne ( born January 21, 1950 in Maasland ), Dutch politician (CDA )
Partner community
- Czechoslovakia FRENŠTÁT pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
History
In 2003 Schipluiden a very ancient settlement were found by archaeologists residues. This has about 300 years exists. May have lived here 3600-3300 BC the first sedentary people of Holland. The scientifically significant excavation has, as is apparent from reports of Leiden University, led to a change in attitudes to transition during the Neolithic hunters / gatherers to farmers. The settlers built among other things, to Emmer (Triticum diococcum ). Due to the rise of the water level and flooding the residents finally had to leave the area.
Den Hoorn, formerly " Dijkshoorn " was called, was first mentioned in the 13th century urkündlich. It is becoming a suburb of Delft, only three km away.
Maasland is attested already in the early Middle Ages the village. Originally belonged Maassluis, which was called in the Middle Ages " Maasland Luis", do so. The village church is located on a mound on which a wooden castle was built, which the Franks and later the Dutch, whose Count Dietrich II is 985 by King Otto III. acquired, served as a base. Later Maasland fell temporarily into the possession of the Teutonic Knights, who had there a bailiwick. Maasland himself always remained a more or less prosperous farming village.
Attractions
- Museum shop " De Schilpen " in Schipluiden
- The village of Maasland
- The natural area Vlietlanden ( a wetland with rare birds and plants, including orchids, very limited access )
- Some old mills and farms, the one on a bike ride, for example, can see from the city of Delft.
Schipluiden, Bridge: de Trambrug
Maasland, mill: de Dijkmolen
Maasland, the street in the center