Reimerswaal

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Reimerswaal

Country	Netherlands
Province	Zeeland
Area	243.18 km²
- Land	102.23 km²
- Water	140.95 km²
Population (2005)	21,007
- Density	205/km²

The name Reimerswaal (pronunciation (help·info)) can mean:

A lost city in the Netherlands: see below.

A municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, named after the lost city. Reimerswaal is a municipality in the province of Zeeland. The municipality in 2004 had 20,966 inhabitants, and has a surface of 243.70 km² (of which 133.89 km² are water). The central town Yerseke is known for the trade in mussels and oysters. Kruiningen is known for the Kruiningen to Perkpolder ferry. The municipality of Reimerswaal arose in 1970, from the aggregation of the municipalities Krabbendijke, Kruiningen, Rilland-Bath, Waarde, and Yerseke.

1 Population centers
2 The city of Reimerswaal
3 Transportation
4 External links

[edit] Population centers

Bath
Hansweert
Krabbendijke
Kruiningen (location of the government offices)
Oostdijk
Rilland
Waarde
Yerseke.

[edit] The city of Reimerswaal

The municipality is named after the city of Reimerswaal. This city was granted city rights in 1374. The city was destroyed by repeated floods, and the last citizens left in 1632. Nothing remains. It lay north of the current municipality, on the east end of the Oosterschelde, on land which is now called the "Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal"

[edit] Transportation

Railway stations (from west to east): Kruiningen-Yerseke, Krabbendijke, Rilland-Bath.

Image:Zeeuwselijn.pngPassenger railway Vlissingen to Roosendaal (part of line 11), with stations (grouped by municipality, bolded), and official station abbreviations:

Vlissingen (vs)
Vlissingen Souburg (vss)

Middelburg (mdb)
Arnemuiden (arn)

Goes (gs)

Kapelle-Biezelinge (bzl)

Kruiningen-Yerseke (krg) (mun. Reimerswaal)
Krabbendijke (kbd)
Rilland-Bath (rb)

Bergen op Zoom (bgn)

Roosendaal (rsd) edit

[edit] External links

Zeeland Province
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