Waddinxveen

Template:Infobox settlement Waddinxveen (Template:IPA) is a town and municipality along the Gouwe river in the western Netherlands in the province of South Holland near Gouda. The municipality had a population of Template:Dutch municipality population in Template:YEAR and covers an area of Template:Convert of which Template:Convert is water.

A small piece of artwork named Template:Interlanguage link (Dutch for 'The Forgotten Place') marks the lowest point on the Dutch polders, 7.01 meters below Amsterdam Ordnance Datum.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

The first reference to the area is from 1233, when on April 20, Floris IV, Count of Holland, sold an area of peat lands along the Gouwe River for 200 Dutch pounds to Nicolas of Gnepwijk, Lord of Aalsmeer and Woubrecht. The area was given the name "Waddinxvene". Because of this event, Waddinxveen celebrated its 750-year anniversary in 1983.

Between 1817 and 1870, Waddinxveen was dissolved and its area split into the municipalities of Noord-Waddinxveen and Zuid-Waddinxveen.<ref>Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2006, p. 191 (Online edition Template:Webarchive)</ref> Due to further expanding, those two municipalities reunited into one.

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Dutch Topographic map of Waddinxveen, July 2013