Rijswijk is a 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

Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...

. It is a part of the municipality of

Buren Buren () is a town and 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 part of the landscape of Betuwe, a ve ...

, and lies about 9 km north of

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

. 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 Nederrijn (; "Lower Rhine"; not to be confused with the section called Lower Rhine further upstream) is the name of the Dutch part of the Rhine from the confluence at the town of Angeren of the cut-off Rhine bend ...

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 Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

''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