Rijswijk is a village in the

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

province of

Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Nethe ...

. It is a part of the municipality of

Buren Buren () is a town and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Betuwe region of the Netherlands. Buren has 27,168 inhabitants as of 1 January 2022. Geography Buren is located in Gelderland, a province of the Netherlands. It is pa ...

, and lies about 9 km north of

Tiel Tiel () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal (river), Waal river and the Linge river to the South and the North, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the Eas ...

. It was first mentioned between 918 and 948 as Risuuic, and means "neighbourhood near twigs". The village developed along the

Nederrijn 300px, Course of the Nederrijn The Nederrijn (; "Lower Rhine"; distinct from the Lower Rhine or further upstream) is the Dutch part of the Rhine from the confluence at the town of Angeren of the cut-off Rhine bend of Oude Rijn (Gelderland ...

as a stretched out settlement. The church tower dates from around 1500 and has a 14th century base. The church dates from the 16th century. In 1840, it was home to 536 people. 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 grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...

''De Hoop'' dates from 1703. It was restored in 1966 and 2002–2003.

Gallery

File:De Hoop (Rijswijk).jpg, Windmill ''De Hoop'' File:Rijswijk-Gld, de Martinuskerk RM28322 IMG 2463 2019-09-15 12.19.jpg, Rijswijk, church: the Martinuskerk File:Rijswijk Gelderland..JPG, Village street File:Rijswijk Schoolmeesterswoning-kosterij Kerkstraat 6.jpg, Former schoolteacher's house

References

Populated places in Gelderland Buren {{Gelderland-geo-stub