User:DrMichaelWright/Mijdrecht

Mijdrecht is a town in the municipality of De Ronde Venen, in the Netherlands. It is located 7 km west of the main A2 motorway, between Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Its population is around 16,000. Recently the city has grown, by expanding with 'Wickelhof I and II'. From 1982 until 2012, a national festival used to be held in Mijdrecht every year, which was called AJOC. =Notable Locations= The main street is the Dorpstraat, where most shops and the municipal administrative offices are located. There is a police office, a fire department, 6 supermarkets, sport facilities, and a coffee shop. There is no police or doctor in the weekends.

Mijdrecht is further home to the Dutch branch of S. C. Johnson & Son, where it is housed in an office building designed by Hugh Maaskant on the Groot-Mijdrechtstraat.

There is one high/secondary school called Veenlanden College. This Mijdrecht campus of the school contains around 1380 students in MAVO, HAVO and Atheneum levels.

The football team SV Argon has its stadium here.

=History=

Medieval History
In 1085 the parish of Mijdrecht, together with those of Wilnis, Tamen, Zevenhoven en Kudelstaart, was granted to the Deaconate of St. John (Proosdij van Sint-Jan), by Conrad, the Prince-bishop of Utrecht, in return for a depot in the Holland-Utrecht border region and the guarantee that the deaconate would develop the rugged terrain for habitation.

Recent History
Most parts of the city (like Hofland-Noord and Molenland) were built after 1980.

Until 1989, Mijdrecht was a separate municipality.

Secondary
There is one high/secondary school called Veenlanden College. The Mijdrecht campus of the school contains around 1380 students in MAVO, HAVO and Atheneum levels. It is a  'Samenwerkingsschool'  (literally: co-operation school), meaning that it combines secular and religious education, as a public school. Some students in Mijdrecht, however, elect to attend the Alkwin Kollege in Uithoorn.

=Notable people=
 * Irfan Bachdim, Indonesian footballer
 * Henk Norel, Professional international basketball player
 * Anouk Hoogendijk, Professional footballer

=References=

=External links=


 * J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Mijdrecht". Map of the former municipality in 1868.