Katwijk Katwijk Pleasant Grove Township, Minnesota Category="South Holland"[image]Katwijk (population: 41,822 in 2004) is a coastal village in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 19.24 km² (of which 5.50 km² water). Katwijk shares its borders with the towns of Noordwijk, Rijnsburg, Valkenburg and Wassenaar.

The municipality of Katwijk consists of Katwijk aan den Rijn and Katwijk aan Zee. The latter has a sandy Beach.

The RijnGouweLijn is planned to connect Katwijk with Leiden and beyond.

Katwijk, 6.2 miles (10 km) NW. of Leiden, is a popular coastal resort and fishing village. Close by are the great locks constructed in 1807 by the engineer, F. W. Conrad (d. 1808), through which the Rhine (here called the Katwyk canal) is admitted into the sea. The shore and the entrance to the canal are strengthened by huge dikes.

In 1520 an ancient Roman camp known as the Brittenburg was discovered here. It was square in shape, each side measuring 82 yd (75 m), and the remains stood about 10 ft (3 m) high. By the middle of the 18th century it had been destroyed and covered by the sea.

In the Netherlands Katwijk is especially known from the rivalry between the two big amateur soccer clubs: VV Katwijk and Quick Boys. The teams meet each other twice a year and the battle splits up the whole village.

Come January 1st 2006, the municipality will annex the municipalities of Rijnsburg en Valkenburg forming the new 'Gemeente Katwijk' (Municipality of Katwijk).

External links

Official Website
http://www.sdu.nl/staatscourant/gemeentes/gem255zh.htm
Detailed Cito-plan map
History of Katwijk

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1 Alblasserdam \| 2 Albrandswaard \| 3 Alkemade \| 4 Alphen aan den Rijn \| 5 Barendrecht \| 6 Bergambacht \| 7 Bergschenhoek \| 8 Berkel en Rodenrijs \| 9 Bernisse \| 10 Binnenmaas \| 11 Bleiswijk \| 12 Bodegraven \| 13 Boskoop \| 14 Brielle \| 15 Capelle aan den IJssel \| 16 Cromstrijen \| 17 Delft \| 18 Den Haag (The Hague) \| 19 Dirksland \| 20 Dordrecht \| 21 Giessenlanden \| 22 Goedereede \| 23 Gorinchem \| 24 Gouda \| 25 Graafstroom \| 26 's-Gravendeel \| 27 Hardinxveld-Giessendam \| 28 Hellevoetsluis \| 29 Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht \| 30 Hillegom \| 31 Jacobswoude \| 32 Katwijk \| 33 Korendijk \| 34 Krimpen aan den IJssel \| 35 Leerdam \| 36 Leiden \| 37 Leiderdorp \| 38 Leidschendam-Voorburg \| 39 Liemeer \| 40 Liesveld \| 41 Lisse \| 42 Maassluis \| 43 Middelharnis \| 44 Midden-Delfland \| 45 Moordrecht \| 46 Nederlek \| 47 Nieuw-Lekkerland \| 48 Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel \| 49 Nieuwkoop \| 50 Noordwijk \| 51 Noordwijkerhout \| 52 Oegstgeest \| 53 Oostflakkee \| 54 Oud-Beijerland \| 55 Ouderkerk \| 56 Papendrecht \| 57 Pijnacker-Nootdorp \| 58 Reeuwijk \| 59 Ridderkerk \| 60 Rijnsburg \| 61 Rijnwoude \| 62 Rijswijk \| 63 Rotterdam \| 64 Rozenburg \| 65 Sassenheim \| 66 Schiedam \| 67 Schoonhoven \| 68 Sliedrecht \| 69 Spijkenisse \| 70 Strijen \| 71 Ter Aar \| 72 Valkenburg \| 73 Vlaardingen \| 74 Vlist \| 75 Voorhout \| 76 Voorschoten \| 77 Waddinxveen \| 78 Warmond \| 79 Wassenaar \| 80 Westland \| 81 Westvoorne \| 82 Zederik \| 83 Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle \| 84 Zoetermeer \| 85 Zoeterwoude \| 86 Zwijndrecht
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