Noordhoek is a village in the Dutch province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic 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 ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Moerdijk Moerdijk () is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. History The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klunde ...

, about 5 km west of

Zevenbergen Zevenbergen is a Dutch city which is a part of the municipality of Moerdijk. Zevenbergen is located in the northwest of the province of North Brabant near Breda. History Zevenbergen (literal translation: Seven Mountains) is presumably named aft ...

.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005.

History

The village was first mentioned between 1838 and 1857 as Noordhoek, and means "northern corner" and refers to the north-eastern part of the Oudland van Standdaarbuiten ''

polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...

''. The dike around the ''polder'' was built in 1548. In 1921, the Catholic St Josef Church was built in

Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

style. The church was designed by Paul Bellot. The church has a matching clergy house in the same style. Noordhoek was home to 266 people in 1840. In 1944, the village was heavily damaged during four days of fighting between the German and Allied armies. Noordhoek used to be split in two municipality. It 1996, it became part of the municipality of

References

Populated places in North Brabant Moerdijk {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub