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Hillegersberg-Schiebroek is a
borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...
in northern
Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte (river), Rotte'') is the second largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the Prov ...
. The borough has (on January 1, 2008) 40,846 inhabitants. Until the annexation by Rotterdam on August 1, 1941, Hillegersberg and Schiebroek were independent communities. In 1947 in Rotterdam, the first elected councils established, in 1948 was the first Hillegersberg-Schiebroek ward council. In 1972, the Regulation on the localities in the city of Rotterdam was adopted. The neighbourhood council of Hillegersberg-Schiebroek was in 1983 converted into a municipal section. Hillegersberg is operated by Rotterdam tram lines 4 and 8 and Schiebroek by tram line 25. The borough is also served by several bus lines from the RET and
Qbuzz Qbuzz is a public transport company in the Netherlands that operates services in South Holland, Utrecht, Drenthe and Groningen. Founded in 2008, it was a 100% subsidiary of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch National Railway Operator) between ...
. Within the municipality Hillegersberg-Schiebroek the Stichting Wijkvervoer Hillegersberg-Schiebroek takes care of cheap transportation for the elderly and other people unable to use own or public transport. This is done under the name De Belbus.http://home.kpn.nl/~f2hbelbus/ Belbus


The district consists of the following areas

*Old Hillegersberg: the oldest part of the borough. *
110-Morgen 110-Morgen is a neighborhood in Rotterdam, Netherlands Located in Hillegersberg-Schiebroek. The name refers to a polder of the same name from 1772, with a surface area of 110 morgen A morgen was a unit of measurement of land area in German ...
: created in the fifties. The name refers to the surface of the polder. * Kleiwegkwartier: with many houses from the years 1920-1930. *
Molenlaankwartier Molenlaankwartier is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Neighbourhoods of Rotterdam {{SouthHolland-geo-stub ...
: consists mostly of post-war houses. *
Terbregge Terbregge is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands. Terbregge has a typical Dutch landscape with windmills, water and cycling routes that lead through the Lage Bergse Bos and the Rotte countryside. The district has a varied living environmen ...
: an older core on either side of Rottenburg (Terbregge is named after the bridge over the River Rotte) and a new part that was completed in 2005: New Terbregge. * Schiebroek: a modern residential area, located in the same polder, originally set up as a garden.


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{{coord missing, Netherlands Boroughs of Rotterdam