52°03′N 4°35′E / 52.050°N 4.583°E / 52.050; 4.583 Moerkapelle is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland . It is located about 6 km east of the city of Zoetermeer , in the municipality of Zuidplas .
4-403: Moerkapelle was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1991, when it merged with Zevenhuizen , to create a new municipality originally called "Moerhuizen". In 1992, it changed its name to Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle. Its name is derived from the combination of moeras (swamp) and kapel (chapel). The hamlet Op Moer formed circa 1400. Around 1560 the first reference was made to the existence of
8-464: A chapel, which served as a school and farmhouse after the completion of the village church in 1667. After the formation of the polder "Wildeveenen" in the 17th century, agricultural activity began and led to a population increase in Moerkapelle. This South Holland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zevenhuizen (Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle) Zevenhuizen
12-458: Is a large village in the Dutch province of South Holland . It is located about 12 km northeast of the city of Rotterdam . Zevenhuizen was a separate municipality until 1991, when it merged with Moerkapelle to form the new municipality of Moerhuizen (renamed in 1992 to Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle ). Since 2010 Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle is part of the new municipality of Zuidplas . It lies between
16-668: The highway A12 and A20. The Rotte (river) also goes past it and it lies in the Tweemanspolder , Zuidplaspolder and the Eendragtspolder . It is surrounded by the villages Moerkapelle , Waddinxveen , Moordrecht , Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel , Lansingerland , and the neighborhood Nesselande (located in Rotterdam ) and Oud Verlaat . 52°00′39″N 4°34′48″E / 52.01083°N 4.58000°E / 52.01083; 4.58000 This South Holland location article
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