Seghwaert is a district in

Zoetermeer Zoetermeer () is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328 ...

that was formed around the old village of

Zegwaart Zegwaart (or Zegwaard) was a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It was located directly to the east of Zoetermeer. Around 1978 a division of Zoetermeer was named after the old village and got the name Seghwaert. Zegwaart was a separ ...

(or Zegwaard), which fused with the municipality of Zoetermeer in 1935, using the archaic spelling of the locale's name. The old

was a

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along what remains until today as ''Zegwaartseweg'', which is perpendicular to ''Dorpstraat''. The district is divided into Seghwaert-Oost (2723), -Midden (2724) and -Noord (2727). In the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and

formed a

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. The

coat of arms A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...

of the municipality was of azure, with three slanting bars of silver.Wapen van Zegwaart (1915)
/ref> Rokkeveen 1665

Notable people from Seghwaert

Jan van Leeuwen Jan van Leeuwen (born December 17, 1946, in Waddinxveen) is a Dutch computer scientist and Emeritus professor of computer science at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University.

(1850-1924), Professor of Greek language and literature at Leiden * Silvia de Groot (1918-2009), cultural anthropologist / surinamist

References

External links

Seghwaert Zoning Plan
Former municipalities of South Holland {{SouthHolland-geo-stub nl:Seghwaert