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.[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 was 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
- Didericus Heineken (1730-1795),[7] a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and his wife Theodora Segerina van Lom, ancestors of Freddy Heineken
- Anne van Schuppen (born 1960), long-distance runner
- Duncan Huisman (born 1971), racing car driver
- Anke Birnie (born 1943), sculptor
References
- ^ a b c “Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021”. Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
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- ^ “Postcodetool for 8085AA”. Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ “Doornspijk – (geografische naam)”. Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ a b Ronald Stenvert & Sabine Broekhoven (2000). “Doornspijk” (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN 90 400 9406 3. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ a b “Doornspijk”. Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
- ^ Presentation Heineken in Elburg Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
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