Doornspijk

Doornspijk

Doornspijk

Village in Gelderland, Netherlands Netherlands

Doornspijk is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Elburg.

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The village was first mentioned in 796 as Thornspiic, and is a combination of thorn and tapering land.[3] The original village was flooded by the former Zuiderzee in 1825, and current village formed around the church after 1829.[4][5]

The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1829, and has been extended into a cruciform church in 1950.[4] Doornspijk was home to 540 people in 1840.[5]

Doornspijk was a separate municipality until 1974, when it became a part of Elburg.[6]

Notable people from Doornspijk

References

  1. [1]
    "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 13 April 2022. three entries
  2. [2]
    "Postcodetool for 8085AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Doornspijk - (geografische naam)". Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  4. [4]
    Ronald Stenvert & Sabine Broekhoven (2000). "Doornspijk" (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN 90 400 9406 3. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
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    "Doornspijk". Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  6. [6]
    Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
  7. [7]
    Presentation Heineken in Elburg Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)

52°25′N 5°49′E


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