Bodegraven

Bodegraven is a city and previous municipality within the western Netherlands, within the province of South Holland. The former municipality covers a place of 38.50 km2 of which 1.02 km2 is water. The former municipality of Bodegraven additionally consists of the groups Meije, and Nieuwerbrug. On January 1, 2011 Bodegraven merged with Reeuwijk to Bodegraven-Reeuwijk. Bodegraven is centrally placed inside the Green Heart of the Randstad, kind of equally distant from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht. The metropolis is located on each shorelines of the Oude Rijn, wherein a set of locks are inside the center of town.

The oldest a part of town is the Reformed St. Gallus Church, at the north aspect of the river. Bodegraven turned into already inhabited inside the Roman Era. It changed into situated on the Roman Empire's northern border, the Limes Germanicus. As such, many navy camps, ports, and roads have been built by way of the Romans. Many settlements originated on the road alongside the Limes, such as Bodegraven.