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Rijnsburg
Sign in to saveRijnsburg () is a village in the eastern part of the municipality of Katwijk, in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It lies on the Oude Rijn, from which it takes its name.
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Place details
- Locality
- Rijnsburg
- Region
- Zuid-Holland
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 7,990
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Rijnsburg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- nl
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vliet Katwijk.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The river Vliet flowing through Rijnsburg's old village centre
- Settlement.image_flag
- Rijnsburg vlag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Rijnsburg wapen.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Netherlands South Holland#Netherlands
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands##Location in the Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Katwijk
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 0.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Official name
- Rijnsburg
- Demonym
- Rijnsburger
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Katwijk
- Population
- 1171
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Vliet Katwijk.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rijnsburg
- native label
- Rijnsburgjongen
- postal code
- 2231
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01254/entity/rijnsburg
- P8168
- Erasmus Kittler
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Archeological finds
- Burials at Rijnsburg Abbey
- Gallery
- References
Rijnsburg () is a village in the eastern part of the municipality of Katwijk, in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It lies on the Oude Rijn, from which it takes its name.
==History== Rijnsburg used to be a separated municipality until 1 January 2006, when, together with Valkenburg, it was added to the municipality of Katwijk. Before that, the municipality covered an area of of which was water, and had a population of 14851 inhabitants (1 June 2005).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rijnsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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