- Rijsoord
Rijsoord is a village in the Dutch province of
South Holland . It is located about 10 km southeast of the city ofRotterdam , in the municipality ofRidderkerk .Rijsoord was a separate municipality until 1855, when it became part of Ridderkerk. Between 1846 and 1855, it was named "Rijsoort en Strevelshoek" after a merger with the smaller municipality of
Strevelshoek . [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 village had its day in history on
May 15th 1940 , when the Dutch commander in Chief generalHenri Winkelman had to sign the surrender to to German invaders, after four days of fighting. The formality took place in a school building in Rijsoord, now a museum.References
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