Bodegraven-Reeuwijk | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Flag Size: | 100x67px |
Map Alt: | Highlighted position of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk in a municipal map of South Holland |
Coordinates: | 52.0833°N 49°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | South Holland |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1 January 2011[1] |
Government Footnotes: | [2] |
Governing Body: | Municipal council |
Leader Party: | VVD |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Erik van Heijningen (acting) |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [3] |
Elevation M: | 0 |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Postal Code: | 2410–2415, 2810–2811, 3465–3466 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 0182, 0348 |
Bodegraven-Reeuwijk (pronounced as /nl/) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland with a population of in . It was established by a merger of Bodegraven and Reeuwijk on 1 January 2011. The municipality covers NaNBodegraven-Reeuwijk}} of which NaNBodegraven-Reeuwijk}} is water.
The new merger also includes the historic municipalities of Waarder, Middelburg, Oukoop, Sluipwijk, Wiltenburg, Vrijhoef en Kalverbroek, parts of Zwammerdam, Lange Ruige Weide, Hekendorp, Land van Stein, Rietveld and Barwoutswaarder, as well as the communities of Driebruggen, Hogebrug, Langeweide, Meije, Nieuwerbrug, Oud-Reeuwijk, Platteweg, Randenburg, Reeuwijk-Brug, Reeuwijk-Dorp, Tempel, Oud-Bodegraven (Vrijenes), Weijpoort and Reeuwijk-Westeinde.
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, June 2015.
In 2020, false allegations were circulated online, that in the 1980s the town had been the site of the sexual abuse and murder of a number of children. In 2022, this led the town's authorities to take legal action to have the allegations removed from Twitter.[4] The council lost the case.[5]