Abcoude-Proostdij is a former municipality in the Dutch

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 province of Utrecht

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. Abcoude-Proostdij covered the northern part of the current municipality of Abcoude

Abcoude

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, including the village of Abcoude itself.

Abcoude-Proostdij was a heerlijkheid

Heerlijkheid

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(manor

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) owned by the chapter of the St. Pieter in Utrecht

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. When the current municipal system

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 was introduced in the Netherlands in 1812, it became a municipality under the name "Abcoude", but it was changed to "Abcoude-Proostdij" in 1815. In 1941, the municipalities of Abcoude-Proostdij and Abcoude-Baambrugge merged, to form the present municipality of Abcoude.