Nieuw-Vossemeer is a village in the

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province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Steenbergen Steenbergen () is a municipality and a town in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in and covers an area of of which is water. The municipality is mainly agricultural including a ...

, about 10 km northeast of

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

History

The village was first mentioned between 1573 and 1576 as Nijeuwe Vossemaer, and means "new fresh water stream". Nieuw (new) has been added to distinguish between

Oud-Vossemeer Oud-Vossemeer (Zeelandic: ''Ou-Vossemaer'') is a village on the island of Tholen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Tholen, and lies about 13 km northwest of Bergen op Zoom, close to the Eendracht, part of ...

. The first village was established in 1566 after the land had been ''

polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed # Flood plains s ...

ed'', however the land was

inundated A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrolog ...

in 1583 to thwart the progress of the Spanish Army. The current village was built around 1610, and has the main street at right angles from the dike with the church on the end of the street. The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1649 as a simple

aisleless church An aisleless church (german: Saalkirche) is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated fr ...

. In 1849, it was plastered and a tower was added. In 1969, it was returned to its original shape. The Catholic St John the Baptist Church was built in 1873 in

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style and extended in 1929. 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 ...

Assumburg was built in 1897. During the

North Sea flood of 1953 The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm surge that struck the Netherlands, north-west Belgium, England and Scotland. Most sea defences facing the surge were overwhelmed, causing extensive flooding. The storm and flo ...

, the wind mill was damaged, but the miller and his whole family died. It was restored between 1955 and 1958, and houses a mill museum since 1968. The wind mill is no longer in service. Nieuw-Vossemeer was home to 882 people in 1840. The town was flooded during the 1953 North Sea flood, and severely damaged. Nieuw-Vossemeer was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became part of Steenbergen.

Gallery

File:Nieuw Vossemeer - Achterstraat 13 - Johannes de Doperkerk.JPG, St John the Baptist Church File:Nieuw-Vossemeer molen Assumburg.jpg, Wind mill Assumburg File:Exterieur naar het zuid-oosten - Nieuw-Vossemeer - 20165970 - RCE.jpg, Dutch Reformed church

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Steenbergen