Sint-Annaland is a village in the

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province of

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. It is a part of the municipality of

Tholen Tholen () is a 25,000 people municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands. The municipality of Tholen takes its name from the town of Tholen, which is the largest population center in the municipality. The municipality consists of two peninsu ...

, and lies about 18 km northwest 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 in 1493 as Sint Annenlant, and is named after

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, the patron saint of Anna van Bourgondië who ordered the ''

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 ...

ing'' of the land. Sint Annaland developed after the salt marshes of the Oudelandpolder were diked in 1476. In 1668, the Suzannapolder, named after the daughter of

Constantijn Huygens Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem ( , , ; 4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist C ...

, was reclaimed and a harbour was added to the village. The Dutch Reformed church was built 1899 as a cruciform church and has a tower with wooden lantern. It replaced the church from 1494. The nameless

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 ...

of Sint-Annaland was built around 1684, and is the oldest extant wind mill of

Zeeland , nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge") , anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem") , image_map = Zeeland in the Netherlands.svg , map_alt = , m ...

. It was in service until 1960 and bought by the municipality in 1966. It was restored the same year, but mainly errors were made in the reconstruction. Between 2005 and 2006, it was restored again and the mistakes were corrected. The wind mill is in service on a voluntary basis. Since 1899, there is a potato auction in Sint-Annaland. It is the only remaining potato auction of the Netherlands and functions as a

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where the buyers have to watch the clock and the potatoes are sold to whoever presses the button first. It is open for tourists on Wednesdays. Sint-Annaland was home to 1,792 people in 1840. was affected by 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 ...

. In 1960, the old harbour was filled up and a new harbour was constructed to the north of the village. Sint-Annaland was a separate municipality until 1971, when it was merged with

Gallery

File:Oosterscheldepad near Sint Annaland.jpg, Landscape near Sint Annaland File:Voorgevel - Sint Annaland - 20022778 - RCE.jpg, Former town hall (1966)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Populated places in Zeeland Former municipalities of Zeeland Tholen