Moerdijk

Moerdijk
—  Municipality  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 51°42′N 4°38′E / 51.7°N 4.633°E / 51.7; 4.633
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Brabant
Area (2006)
- Total	183.99 km2 (71 sq mi)
- Land	159.10 km2 (61.4 sq mi)
- Water	24.89 km2 (9.6 sq mi)
Population (1 January, 2007)
- Total	36,649
- Density	230/km2 (595.7/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Moerdijk ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.

History

The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 as a merge of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen. At that point in time, the new municipality was called Zevenbergen, a name changed to Moerdijk in 1998.

Population centres

• Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Klundert
• Moerdijk
• Standdaarbuiten
• Willemstad
• Zevenbergen

The village of Moerdijk

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.

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".

Zevenbergen

Zevenbergen is the largest town of the municipality (population as of 2002^[update]: 14,006). It is located about 10 km northwest of Breda. It received city rights in 1427.

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

Transport

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

• Dordrecht (Ddr)
• Dordrecht Zuid (Ddzd) (mun. Dordrecht)
• Lage Zwaluwe (Zlw) (mun. Moerdijk)
• Zevenbergen (Zvb) (mun. Moerdijk)
• Oudenbosch (Odb) (mun. Halderberge)
• Roosendaal (Rsd) edit

External links

• Official Website
• http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gem/gem559nb.htm
• http://www.plattegronden.nl/gemeentemoerdijk/

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Coordinates: 51°42′N 4°38′E / 51.7°N 4.633°E / 51.7; 4.633

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