Goedereede

Goedereede is a city and former municipality within the Dutch province of South Holland. The city has around 2,000 inhabitants and is placed at the top of the island of Goeree-Overflakkee, the previous island of Goeree. Until 31 December 2012, Goedereede fashioned an unbiased municipality with the villages of Ouddorp and Stellendam. Since then, the area has been a part of the municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee.

The records of Goedereede is going lower back to Roman instances while there has been already an crucial port agreement to the north-west of the prevailing town. Archaeologists found a number of Roman fabric inside the polder De Oude Oostdijk inside the fifties and eighties of the twentieth century in the soil. Research into this fabric has proven that during Roman times, Goedereede was a transit port for products from the complete western a part of the Roman Empire. The port changed into related to the castella along the Rhine and in all likelihood served as aid for the Roman army. The Romeinseweg recollects the Roman past of Goedereede.