Editing Wijk bij Duurstede

{{short description|Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands}}
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 |title = Burgemeester Tjapko Poppens
 |trans-title = Mayor Tjapko Poppens
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 |access-date = 10 April 2014}}</ref>
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'''Wijk bij Duurstede''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈʋɛiɡ bɛi ˈdyːrsteːdə|-|286 Wijk bij Duurstede.ogg}}) is a [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] and a [[city]] in the central [[Netherlands]].

== Population centres ==
*[[Cothen]]
*[[Langbroek]]
*Wijk bij Duurstede

===Topography===
[[File:2013-WijkbijDuurstede.jpg|470px|]]

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Wijk bij Duurstede, 2013.''

== City ==
The city (population as of 2007: 23,377) is located on the [[Rhine]]. At Wijk bij Duurstede, the [[Kromme Rijn]] (Crooked Rhine) branches off, and the main branch is called [[Lek River]] downstream from Wijk bij Duurstede.

The name 'Wijk bij Duurstede' means 'Neighbourhood by Duurstede'. Duurstede is the name of the [[Duurstede Castle|nearby castle/ruin]], also called [[Dorestad]], where the bishop of Utrecht used to live. Wijk bij Duurstede is the former location of [[Dorestad]], an important [[Frisians|Frisian]] trade settlement during Carolingian times that was pillaged around 850 by the [[Vikings]].

Wijk bij Duurstede has the only [[:File:Wbd Runmolenpoort.jpg|drive-through wind mill]] in the world. The mill is often confused with the mill that was made famous by [[Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael|Ruisdael]]'s [[:File:Jacob Isaaksz. van Ruisdael 014.jpg|1670 painting ''The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede'']], but that mill no longer exists (its foundations can still be seen a couple of blocks away from the remaining mill). At the market place of Wijk bij Duurstede is one of the few church towers in the Netherlands with a flat roof, as built because the bishop could not afford to build a spire. Inside the tower a picture displays the planned construction of the tower. The tower was supposed to become higher than the [[Domtoren]] in [[Utrecht]].

Wijk bij Duurstede received [[city rights in the Netherlands|city rights]] in 1300.

[[File:Rorik by H. W. Koekkoek.jpg|140px|thumb|Rorik by HW Koekkoek]]

== Notable people ==
* [[Rorik of Dorestad]] (ca.810– ca.880) Danish Viking who ruled over parts of [[Frisia]] 841-873
* [[Dirck van Baburen]] (ca.1595–1624) painter of the [[Utrecht School]] 
* [[Thomas van Rhee]] (1634–1701) colonial administrator, 13th [[Governor of Dutch Ceylon]]
* [[Hugo Leonardus Gerth van Wijk]] (1849–1921) biologist, teacher, and lexicographer
* [[Dirk Fock]] (1858–1941) politician and diplomat, [[Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies]] 1921–1926 
* [[Gerrit Achterberg]] (1905–1962) poet
* [[Everhardus Jacobus Ariëns]] (1918–2002) pharmacologist and academic
* [[Johannes Alphonsus Huisman]] (1919-2003), philologist
* [[Dick Kooijman]]  (born 1972) footballer with 322 club caps

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed>
Image:Wijk bij Duurstede, straatzicht naar kerktoren RM39695 foto5 2012-05-29 11.52.jpg|Wijk bij Duurstede, street to the churchtower
File:De stuw in de rivier de Lek bij Hagestein.jpg|The weir in the river Lek near Hagestein
File:Wijk bij Duurstede, molen Rijn en Lek in straatzicht foto3 2012-05-29 12.34.JPG|Wijk bij Duurstede, windmill (molen Rijn en Lek) in the street
File:1209 Wijk bij Duurstede 173.JPG|Wijk bij Duurstede
File:Wijk bij Duurstede, kasteel Duurstede RM454308 IMG 9213 2019-04-19 15.51.jpg|Castle: kasteel Duurstede
File:Neder-Rijn bij Wijk bij Duurstede.jpg|Neder-Rijn bij Wijk bij Duurstede
File:Hoog water in de Stadshaven in Wijk bij Duurstede.jpg|Wijk bij Duurstede, water in de Stadshaven
File:Langbroek Bebouwde Brug Cor Litjens.jpg|Langbroek Bebouwde Brug Cor Litjens
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.wijkbijduurstede.nl Official website]

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Wijk bij Duurstede
 | North     = [[Utrechtse Heuvelrug]]
 | East      = [[Utrechtse Heuvelrug]]
 | South     = ''[[Lek (river)|Lek]]''<br>[[Buren]] ([[Gelderland|GE]])
 | Southwest = ''[[Lek (river)|Lek]]''<br>[[Culemborg]] ([[Gelderland|GE]])
 | West      = [[Houten]]
 | Northwest = [[Bunnik]]
}}
{{Utrecht Province}}
{{Dutch municipality Wijk bij Duurstede}}

{{Authority control}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of Utrecht (province)]]
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