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Maassluis
Town and municipality
Aerial view of Maassluis
Aerial view of Maassluis
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Highlighted position of Maassluis in a municipal map of South Holland
Location in South Holland
Coordinates: 51°56′N 4°14′E / 51.933°N 4.233°E / 51.933; 4.233Coordinates: 51°56′N 4°14′E / 51.933°N 4.233°E / 51.933; 4.233
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceSouth Holland
Government
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 • BodyMunicipal council
 • MayorJack de Vries (Template:Polparty)
Area
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Elevation
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Population
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Demonym(s)Maassluizer
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
3140–3147
Area code010
Websitewww.maassluis.nl

Maassluis (nl) is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of Template:Dutch municipality population in Error and covered [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] was water.

It received town rights in 1811.

History

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Maassluis in 1867

Maassluis was founded circa 1340 as a settlement next to a lock (in Dutch: sluis) in the sea barrier between the North Sea and Rotterdam. Originally Maeslandsluys, it was part of Maesland. In 1489 the settlement was sacked. During the Eighty Years' War, Philips of Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, started to build a defense wall but before its completion, the Spanish captured it in 1573[5] and Philips of Marnix was taken prisoner. A year later Maeslandsluys was looted by mutinous Spanish troops.

On 16 May 1614, Maeslandsluys was separated from Maesland by the counts of Holland and renamed Maassluis. This separation may have been religiously motivated: Maassluis was predominantly Protestant and Maasland Catholic. In 1624 the defense wall was demolished to make way for the Great Church, started in 1629. Construction stopped for five years because privateers from Dunkirk raided fishing boats from Maassluis, throwing their crew overboard. It was finished in 1639. On 4 December 1732, the Garrels Organ was inaugurated. Built from 1730 to 1732 by Rudolf Garrels, a pupil of Arp Schnitger, it was a gift by Govert van Wijn, ship-owner from Maassluis.[6]

In 1811, Napoleon Bonaparte granted town rights.

During World War II, the working population was transferred to Germany for the war industry. Maassluis' ancient church was hit by allied bombers.

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Dutch Topographic map of Maassluis, June 2015
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Church: de Grote Kerk

Jewish history

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The Jewish community had its own synagogue, a teacher, a singer and a ritual butcher. Its most common professions were salesman, street trader and butcher. The economy was vulnerable and community growth ended with the industrial revolution. The area became easier to reach and competition became too much. The number of Jews fell from 92 to eight between 1892 and 1930. A cause was the building of a railway in 1881 between Maassluis and Rotterdam. Most Jewish traders moved to Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam, which in the last decade of the 19th century had a growing Jewish population.

Integration in Maassluis ended during the Second World War. The Coltof and Van Gelderen families were deported in 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz.

Economy

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Maassluis was historically dependent on the fishing near the coast and off Iceland. In the 19th century the tugboat company, L. Smit, and the marine salvage company W.A. van den Tak merged to become Smit-Tak, now a division of the world's largest salvage company, Smit International. Also, there is still a large shipping agency called Royal Dirkzwager. Maassluis is now mainly a commuter town for Rotterdam.

People born in Maassluis

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Abraham Kuyper, 1905

Sport

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In media

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Maassluis was the setting for Spetters, filmed by director Paul Verhoeven in 1980.

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References

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  1. ↑ "Burgemeester drs. J. G. (Jack) de Vries" [Mayor drs. J. G. (Jack) de Vries] (in Dutch). Gemeente Maassluis. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  2. ↑ Template:Dutch municipality total area
  3. ↑ "Postcodetool for 3144BA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  4. ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population
  5. ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maassluis" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 188.
  6. ↑ "The Organ of the Great church of Maassluis".
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