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Doornspijk
Village in Gelderland, Netherlands Netherlands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Doornspijk is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Elburg.
The village was first mentioned in 796 as Thornspiiic, and is a combination of thorn and tapering land.[3] The original village was flooded by the former Zuiderzee in 1825, and current village formed around the church after 1829.[4][5]
The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1829, and has been extended into a cruciform church in 1950.[4] Doornspijk was home to 540 people in 1840.[5]
Doornspijk was a separate municipality until 1974, when it became a part of Elburg.[6]
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Notable people from Doornspijk
- Didericus Heineken (1730-1795),[7] a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and his wife Theodora Segerina van Lom, ancestors of Freddy Heineken
- Anne van Schuppen (born 1960), long-distance runner
- Duncan Huisman (born 1971), racing car driver
- Anke Birnie (born 1943), sculptor
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