Rozenburg (island)

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Rozenburg is an island in the western

and in 1586 the land known as Roosenburgh was leased to Dirk Ariensz. Bisdommer and Son, the first permanent inhabitant of Rozenburg.

In 1950, the stretch of the Nieuwe Maas river south of Rozenburg (also locally called Brielse Maas) was dammed off at both ends of Rozenburg Island, thereby forming Brielse Meer and connecting it to Voorne-Putten Island.

Beginning in the same period, most of the island was given over to

branch. In a short period its population rose from 3,500 to over 14,000.

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  Rozenburg Island in 1867, just before the construction of the Nieuwe Waterweg, its planned route visible in the top left corner.
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  Windmill, molen de Hoop

See also

• Rozenburg – the town on the island, since 2010 a submunicipality of Rotterdam

51°55′39″N 4°10′49″E / 51.92750°N 4.18028°E / 51.92750; 4.18028