Zevenbergen is a Dutch city which is a part of the municipality of
MoerdijkMoerdijk is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.- History :The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 as a merge of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen...
. Zevenbergen is located in the northwest of the province of Noord-Brabant near
BredaBreda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was a strategic military and political significance...
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Zevenbergen (literal translation: Seven Mountains) is presumably named after the hills that formed a natural barrier of protection during the time of the Roman Empire. The actual number of hills is debatable however and was most likely not seven.
Zevenbergen is a Dutch city which is a part of the municipality of
MoerdijkMoerdijk is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.- History :The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 as a merge of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen...
. Zevenbergen is located in the northwest of the province of Noord-Brabant near
BredaBreda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was a strategic military and political significance...
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History
Zevenbergen (literal translation: Seven Mountains) is presumably named after the hills that formed a natural barrier of protection during the time of the Roman Empire. The actual number of hills is debatable however and was most likely not seven. Archeological excavations in 1964 and 1965 revealed that two of the hills were already present during the
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
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From the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century, Zevenbergen was most famous for its sugar production housing three sugar factories. It is as a result of the needed transport of sugar that Zevenbergen gets its railways, but also the harbour located at the end of the canal "Mark".
Zevenbergen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with
Fijnaart en HeijningenFijnaart en Heijningen is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It covered the villages of Fijnaart and Heijningen.Fijnaart en Heijningen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it was merged with Zevenbergen.-External links:*...
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KlundertKlundert is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located close to the Hollands Diep, about 3 km northwest of Zevenbergen. It received city rights in 1357....
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StanddaarbuitenStanddaarbuiten is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Moerdijk, about 9 km northeast of Roosendaal.Standdaarbuiten was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became part of Zevenbergen....
and
WillemstadWillemstad is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Moerdijk. Its population as of 2002 was 2,329....
. The name of the new municipality originally was "Zevenbergen", but it was changed to "Moerdijk" in 1998.
Public Transportation
Zevenbergen has its own train station which, together with nearby
OudenboschOudenbosch is a village in the municipality Halderberge in the west of the Dutch province Noord-Brabant. Oudenbosch is well-known for its 'Basiliek' a catholic church that is a smaller copy of St...
, has one of the oldest station buildings still existing in the Netherlands. The only older station building is the trainstation in
ValkenburgValkenburg means falcon castle in Dutch and can refer to:* Valkenburg aan de Geul - a town in the province of Limburg , the southern-most Dutch province....
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Facts
- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age...
, the famous Dutch painter, lived in Zevenbergen for part of his life
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