Bodegraven-Reeuwijk
Bodegraven-Reeuwijk is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland with a population of in. It was established by a merger of Bodegraven and Reeuwijk on 1 January 2011. The municipality covers of which is water.
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Population centres
The new merger also includes the historic municipalities of Waarder, Middelburg, Oukoop, Sluipwijk, Wiltenburg, Vrijhoef en Kalverbroek, parts of Zwammerdam, Lange Ruige Weide, Hekendorp, Land van Stein, Rietveld and Barwoutswaarder, as well as the communities of Driebruggen, Hogebrug, Langeweide, Meije, Nieuwerbrug, Oud-Reeuwijk, Platteweg, Randenburg, Reeuwijk-Brug, Reeuwijk-Dorp, Tempel, Oud-Bodegraven, Weijpoort and Reeuwijk-Westeinde.Topography
''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, June 2015.''Paedophilia rumours
In 2020, false allegations were circulated online, that in the 1980s the town had been the site of the sexual abuse and murder of a number of children. In 2022, this led the town's authorities to take legal action to have the allegations removed from Twitter. The council lost the case.Notable people
- Pieter Verhoek a Dutch Golden Age poet and painter.
- Dominicus van Tol a Dutch Golden Age painter
- Gijsbert Verhoek a Dutch Golden Age painter.
- Johan Zoutman a Dutch naval figure and Rear Admiral
- Jan Ceton a Dutch left-wing politician
- Maarten de Niet Gerritzoon a Dutch politician
- Jacob Korevaar a Dutch mathematician and academic
- Arnold Merkies a Dutch politician
Sport
- Jaap Beije a Dutch rower, competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Ria van Velsen a retired Dutch artistic gymnast who participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Marjorie van de Bunt a Dutch Paralympian athlete competing in Biathlon and Cross-country skiing