Schore is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Kapelle, about 8 km southwest of Goes.
The village was first mentioned in 1253 as Dodinus de Scoren, and means “land on water”.[3] Schore is a circular church village.[4] Schore was founded after 1150 when a dike was built around Zuid-Beveland. The village was flooded and destroyed in 1248. It was later rebuilt as a small agricultural community. Schore was home to 261 people in 1840.[5]
The old centre was destroyed in 1940 by war, and redesigned by Jordanus Roodenburgh.[4] The Dutch Reformed church is an aisleless church was a narrow needle spire which was completed in 1942.[4]
Schore was a separate municipality until 1941, when it was merged with Kapelle.[6] It is part of the province of Zeeland, with a population of 485 people
References
- ^ a b c “Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021”. Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ “Postcodetool for 4423AA”. Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ “Schore – (geografische naam)”. Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Piet van Cruyningen & Ronald Stenvert (2003). Schore (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN 90 400 8830 6. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ “Schore”. Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.