Editing Rijswijk (section)

== History ==
[[File:Rijswijk ZH 1867.png|left|thumb|Rijswijk in 1867.]]
[[Image:Gem-Rijswijk-OpenTopo.jpg|left|thumb|Dutch Topographic map of Rijswijk, June 2015]]
Archeological excavations indicate that this area of the coastal dunes was already inhabited some 5500 years ago. The village of Rijswijk formed in the 13th century, and its history was dominated by the presence of mansions and estates of the nobility and affluent.

The [[Treaty of Ryswick]] was signed at the [[Huis ter Nieuwburg]] in 1697, ending the [[Nine Years' War]]. A monument, the [[Needle of Rijswijk]] (1792), was erected to commemorate the treaty in the Rijswijk Forest.

[[File:Rijswijk, de Oude Kerk in straatzicht RM20047 foto2 2014-04-13 10.17.jpg|Rijswijk, church (de Oude Kerk) in the street|thumb|280px|right]]
Until 1900 Rijswijk remained a relative small community but it became urbanized during the 20th century when it expanded rapidly. Today, Rijswijk's area has almost been completely built-up. The last major development is the new [[Leidschenveen-Ypenburg|Ypenburg]] neighbourhood, built on the lands of the former Ypenburg Airfield but this part of Rijswijk was annexed by The Hague in 2002. Rijswijk is part of the [[Haaglanden]] conurbation. During the years its built-up area has grown to the point where it has effectively merged with The Hague, even though it is still a separate municipality.
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Up until 2009 Rijswijk had a polytechnic college for applied sciences; TH Rijswijk (Technische Hogeschool Rijswijk). After a merger with the [[Haagse Hogeschool]], this was moved to the campus of the TUDelft in [[Delft]]. The building still remains.

[[Istana Negara (Jakarta)|Istana Negara]], one of the six presidential palaces of Indonesia, in the Jakarta neighbourhood of Harmoni (formerly Rijswijk-Molenvliet), was called ''Paleis te Rijswijk'' during Dutch colonial times.