Rijnwoude

( Listen? / I ) Rijnwoude is a former municipality in the Netherlands, South Holland, in the municipality of Alphen since 1 January 2014.

Places

• Hazerswoude, which includes the villages of Hazerswoude - Dorp (village) and Hazerswoude - Rijndijk ( Rheindeich ) exists; here is the local government
• Benthuizen, in the south, towards Zoetermeer
• Koudekerk aan den Rijn, in the west, the direction of suffering.

Location and economic

The municipality is located on the Old Rhine, between Leiden, Zoetermeer and Boskoop. The nearest railway station is in Leiden, which is approximately 7 kilometers west of Hazerswoude - Rijndijk.

In Koudekerk are some factories, the bricks, roof tiles, etc. produced. Agriculture is the main source of income of the municipality.

Since the sights of the Gothic village church of Koudekerk, some windmills and farms, which can not be viewed from the inside, and a small museum restrict tourism is of little importance.

Some windmills

Hazerswoude - Dorp Mill: Nieuw Leven

History

At the point where now lies Hazerswoude - Rijndijk, is said to have found a Roman settlement around 50 AD. The territory of the municipality was in 1281 a Mr. Dirk ( Dietrich ) van Teylingen, member of a leading noble family in South Holland. He gave country in the so-called " copenhagen " (see for an explanation of this term: Boskoop (Netherlands) ), and the marsh was reclaimed later peat was also cut and sold in the neighboring city of Leiden. Thus the land was under, but the lakes thus formed were polders again in the 17th and 18th centuries, and it was again the fertile farmlands. Koudekerk was in the late Middle Ages, a " ambacht ", the glory, the own under the Lord Van Poelgeest jurisdiction, including the blood had jurisdiction.

The municipalities of Alphen aan den Rijn, Boskoop and Rijnwoude merged on January 1, 2014. The new church has around 106,000 inhabitants and takes over the existing name Alphen aan den Rijn.