- Broek (Gouda)
Broek was a municipality in the Dutch province of
South Holland , located west and north ofGouda . A longer name of the municipality, Broek, Bloemendaal, Broekhuizen, Thuil en het Weegje names thepolders that are part of the municipality.Broek was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1870, when it became part of Waddinxveen. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ] The polder "Broek" is now part of the municipality of Gouda, as is part of Bloemendaal. Around 1850, the municipality had a population of more than 1300, on an area of 17.55 km². [vanderAa-AW|B] ,
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* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/zh/broek.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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