Zevenbergen

Zevenbergen is a town in the northwest of the Dutch province of North Brabant near Breda. Zevenbergen was a separate municipality until 1997 and has since been the capital of the municipality of Moerdijk. Zevenbergen has 14,750 inhabitants.

History

Zevenbergen was first mentioned in 1283 and belonged to the county of Holland politically. The town grew and got the time John III. of Brabant city rights, and quickly became a central location. 1421 led to Elisabeth flood dike breaches and flooding in many areas in the southwest of the Netherlands. The polder to Zevenbergen were also flooded and the place was separated from the remaining part of the county. Zevenbergen remained politically belonging to Holland and became a party in the hook - and - Cod War. 1427 was the place of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Holland, taken and he gave (confirmed ) Zevenbergen city rights.

Only at the beginning of the 16th century were the territories diked to Zevenbergen and again in 1648, the city came into the possession of the House of Orange. 1805 Zevenbergen ( with the remaining portion of today's municipality of Moerdijk ) part of the deparments Bataafsch Brabant in the Batavian Republic and after 1815 part of North Brabant in the new Kingdom of the Netherlands.