Elkerzee is a hamlet 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 is a part of the municipality 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 ...

, and lies about 1 km south of

Scharendijke Scharendijke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 24 km west of Hellevoetsluis. The village was first mentioned in 1487 as Schaerdendijke, and is a combination o ...

.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. Elkerzee is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under

. It has its own place name signs. It was home to 489 people in 1840. Nowadays it consists of about 10 houses. A church was built in 1741, but was demolished in 1958, because a new church had been built in neighbouring Scharendijke. The

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

De Lelie was built in 1868 and decommissioned in 1960. In 2008, it was bought and turned into a restaurant specialising in pan cakes. The flour for the pancakes is ground by the wind mill. Elkerzee was a separate municipality until 1961, when it was merged into

Middenschouwen Middenschouwen is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It covered the central part of the island of Schouwen-Duiveland. Middenschouwen was created in a merger of Duivendijke, Elkerzee, Ellemeet and Kerkwerve Kerkwerve is a villa ...

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

Gallery

File:Exterieur overzicht naar het noord-oosten - Elkerzee - 20069387 - RCE.jpg, Former church of Elkerzee File:Dorpsgezicht PBK 1920 - Elkerzee - 20465000 - RCE.jpg, Village view (1920)

References

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