Duivendijke is a former village in the

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

province of

Zeeland , nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge") , anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem") , image_map = Zeeland in the Netherlands.svg , map_alt = , m ...

. It was located about 2 km southwest of

Brouwershaven Brouwershaven is a small city on the Grevelingen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, lies about 45 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis and 10 km north of Zierikzee. Brouwershaven received ...

on the island of

Schouwen-Duiveland Schouwen-Duiveland () is a municipality and an island in the southwestern Netherlands province of Zeeland. The municipality has 33,737 inhabitants (1 January 2016) and covers an area of (of which is water). The northside of the island has two fi ...

. The village had a church, which was demolished before the middle of the 18th century. The first bishop of Leeuwarden,

Cunerus Petri Cunerus Petri (ca. 1530–1580) was the first bishop of Leeuwarden to take possession of the see.J. De Jong, "Cunerus Petri", in ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'', vol. 5 (Leiden, 1921), 122-124. He was nominated in succession to Remi ...

, was born in Duivendijke around 1530. Until 1961, Duivendijke was the name of a separate municipality, that also covered the hamlets Klaaskinderenkerke, Brijdorpe and

Looperskapelle Looperskapelle is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 23 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. ...

.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.

References

Former populated places in the Netherlands Populated places in Zeeland Former municipalities of Zeeland History of Schouwen-Duiveland Schouwen-Duiveland {{Zeeland-geo-stub