Moerdijk

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Moerdijk
Municipality
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Aerial view over Moerdijk (Zevenbergen in centre)
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Location in North Brabant
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CountryNetherlands
ProvinceNorth Brabant
Government
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 • BodyMunicipal council
 • MayorAart-Jan Moerkerke [nl] (VVD)
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Population
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Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
4758–4797
Area code0168
Websitewww.moerdijk.nl

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Moerdijk (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a municipality, that includes also a village with the same name, in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands.

History

The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad, and Zevenbergen. At that time the new municipality was called Zevenbergen. The name changed to Moerdijk on 1 April 1998.

Population centres

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Topography

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Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Moerdijk, June 2015

The village of Moerdijk

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The village of Moerdijk is one of the smaller villages of the municipality. Population as of 2002 is 1,205. Moerdijk is however a well-known name in the Netherlands, because of the large Moerdijk industrial area, with a large power plant, and because of the well-known Moerdijk bridges (highway and railway bridges) across the Hollands Diep. This was the last bridge available for the retreat from the vital Scheldt Estuary of the rapidly collapsing German defences near Antwerp in World War II. (Noteworthy as well, the Moerdijk bridges were one of the first targets of guided, or "smart bombs"- by American heavy bombers in late 1944.)

Moerdijk made headlines on 5 January 2011 because of a large fire at Chemie-Pack (a firm processing numerous chemicals) causing a large cloud of toxic smoke to blow over the surrounding area, mostly to the north of Moerdijk.

Above the Moerdijk (meaning "north of Moerdijk") is used as an expression in Belgium and the southern parts of the Netherlands to mean "in the Netherlands" or "in Holland".

Below the Moerdijk (meaning "south of Moerdijk" or "below the major rivers") is also a Dutch expression for the Catholic provinces North Brabant and Limburg. This expression is used particularly around Mardi Gras in relation to the region's traditional carnival culture, which (with a few local exceptions) does not exist north of the major rivers.

Over de Moerdijk (meaning "across the Moerdijk") is used by either party to mean the other one.

Zevenbergen

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Zevenbergen has a train station with connections to Dordrecht and Roosendaal.

Transport

Railway Dordrecht to Roosendaal (part of line 11), with stations and official station abbreviations:

Close to Hollands Diep, the area is now used for industrial movements by water, with great inland access as well the access into the North Sea, transport company Van der Vlist have their own port located in the area, and many other transport companies have nearby offices.

Notable people

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Henry Berkmans, 1662
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Sport

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Portefeuilleverdeling College" [Task division board] (in Nederlands). Gemeente Moerdijk. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Nederlands). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Postcodetool for 4761BJ". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Nederlands). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Nederlands). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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