Reimerswaal
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The name [Reimerswaal] can mean:-
A lost city in the Netherlands: see below.
A municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, named after the lost city. Reimerswaal is a municipality in the province of Zeeland. The municipality in 2004 had 20,966 inhabitants, and has a surface of 243.70 km² (of which 133.89 km² are water). The central town Yerseke is known for the trade in mussels and oysters. Kruiningen is known for the Kruiningen to Perkpolder ferry. The municipality of Reimerswaal arose in 1970, from the aggregation of the municipalities Krabbendijke, Kruiningen, Rilland-Bath, Waarde, and Yerseke.
Population centers
- Bath
- Hansweert
- Krabbendijke
- Kruiningen (location of the government offices)
- Oostdijk
- Rilland
- Waarde
- Yerseke.
The city of Reimerswaal
The municipality is named after the city of Reimerswaal. This city was granted city rights in 1374. The city was destroyed by repeated floods, and the last citizens left in 1632. Nothing remains. It lay north of the current municipality, on the east end of the Oosterschelde, on land which is now called the "Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal"Transportation
Railway stations (from west to east): Kruiningen-Yerseke, Krabbendijke, Rilland-Bath.Passenger railway Vlissingen to Roosendaal (part of line 11), with stations (grouped by municipality, bolded), and official station abbreviations:
- Vlissingen (vs)
- Vlissingen Souburg (vss)
- Middelburg (mdb)
- Arnemuiden (arn)
- Goes (gs)
- Kapelle-Biezelinge (bzl)
- Kruiningen-Yerseke (krg) (mun. Reimerswaal)
- Krabbendijke (kbd)
- Rilland-Bath (rb)
- Bergen op Zoom (bgn)
- Roosendaal (rsd) [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit ]
External links
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