's-Heer Arendskerke
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's-Heer Arendskerke is a small village of approximately 1300 inhabitants in the municipality of Goes
in the south-western Netherlands
.
The settlement consists of two circles of houses around a Protestant church, on a single main road with an obsolete village hall. On the other side of the main road is a little industrial site called Eindewege (end of he road), containing tin huts and small garages. The remainder of the area is given over to fields for agriculture.
There is one primary school and one secondary school. There is also a GP and a nurse / physiotherapist.
The village also has a fire brigade unit with two trucks.
The Rijkswaterstaat
maintains a winter depot here, with reserve stocks for dyke repairs.
There was once a railway station before the Second World War
, but it was demolished in 1928.
's-Heer Arentskerke was a separate municipality until 1970.
Goes
Goes is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands in Zuid-Beveland, in the province Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 27,000 residents.-History of Goes:...
in the south-western Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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The settlement consists of two circles of houses around a Protestant church, on a single main road with an obsolete village hall. On the other side of the main road is a little industrial site called Eindewege (end of he road), containing tin huts and small garages. The remainder of the area is given over to fields for agriculture.
There is one primary school and one secondary school. There is also a GP and a nurse / physiotherapist.
The village also has a fire brigade unit with two trucks.
The Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat, founded in 1798 as the Bureau voor den Waterstaat, is part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the former Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management...
maintains a winter depot here, with reserve stocks for dyke repairs.
There was once a railway station before the Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, but it was demolished in 1928.
's-Heer Arentskerke was a separate municipality until 1970.