Doornspijk

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

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Place details

Locality: Hoge Enk
Region: Gelderland
Country: Nederland
Population: 1,555
Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Doornspijk
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.native_name_lang: nl
Settlement.image_skyline: Doornspijk, de Gereformerde Kerk foto5 2013-07-15 14.34.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Doornspijk, reformed church
Settlement.image_shield: Doornspijk wapen.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Netherlands Gelderland#Netherlands
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Netherlands
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Gelderland
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Elburg
Settlement.elevation_m: 2.9
Settlement.area_total_km2: 19.93
Settlement.population_total: 3,330

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: municipality of the Netherlands
Country: Netherlands
Located in: Gelderland
Population: 1520
Area: 21.08
Time zone: UTC+01:00

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

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doornspijk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.