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Wijk bij Duurstede

Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands

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Location in Utrecht

51°59′N 5°20′E / 51.983°N 5.333°E / 51.983; 5.333CountryNetherlandsProvinceUtrechtGovernment

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• BodyMunicipal councilArea

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• Total50.40 km² (19.46 sq mi) • Land47.62 km² (18.39 sq mi) • Water2.78 km² (1.07 sq mi)Elevation

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5 m (16 ft)Population

(January 2021)^[4]

• Total23,925 • Density502/km² (1,300/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postcode

3945–3947, 3960–3962

Area code0343Websitewww.wijkbijduurstede.nl

Wijk bij Duurstede (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɛiɡ bɛi ˈdyːrsteːdə] ^ⓘ) is a municipality and a city in the central Netherlands.

Population centres

Cothen
Langbroek
Wijk bij Duurstede

Topography

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 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 Frisian trade settlement during Carolingian times that was pillaged around 850 by the Vikings.

Wijk bij Duurstede has the only drive-through wind mill in the world. The mill is often confused with the mill that was made famous by Ruisdael's 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 1300.

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
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

Wijk bij Duurstede, street to the churchtower
The weir in the river Lek near Hagestein
Wijk bij Duurstede, windmill (molen Rijn en Lek) in the street
Wijk bij Duurstede
Castle: kasteel Duurstede
Neder-Rijn bij Wijk bij Duurstede
Wijk bij Duurstede, water in de Stadshaven
Langbroek Bebouwde Brug Cor Litjens

References

^ "Burgemeester Tjapko Poppens" [Mayor Tjapko Poppens] (in Dutch). Gemeente Wijk bij Duurstede. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Postcodetool for 3962CL". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.