Albrandswaard | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Image Alt: | White castle in the middle of a pond with some other building on the side |
Flag Size: | 100x67px |
Flag Alt: | Blue vertical banner on the left with 3 vertically stacked white shields with 5 blue points each. Alternating red and yellow triangles on the rest of the flag. |
Shield Alt: | Similar to flag with crown on top and items placed differently. |
Map Alt: | Highlighted position of Albrandswaard in a municipal map of South Holland |
Coordinates: | 51.8667°N 28°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Netherlands |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | South Holland |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Governing Body: | Municipal council |
Leader Party: | D66 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Jolanda de Witte |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation Footnotes: | [2] |
Elevation M: | 0 |
Population Demonym: | Albrandswaarder |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Postal Code: | 3160–3176 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 010 |
Albrandswaard (in Dutch; Flemish ˌɑlbrɑntsˈʋaːrt/) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of as of, and covers an area of NaNAlbrandswaard}} of which NaNAlbrandswaard}} is water.
The municipality of Albrandswaard consists of the villages of Poortugaal in the west and Rhoon in the east. They were separate municipalities until 1985. The name was taken from the historic municipality of Albrandswaard en Kijvelanden, which existed until 1842, when it joined Poortugaal. Albrandswaard actually is a polder located between Rhoon and Poortugaal.
Both villages have a metro station on Rotterdam Metro line D (Poortugaal station and Rhoon station), which connect them to Rotterdam and to the main railway network from Rotterdam Centraal in the east, and to Hoogvliet and Spijkenisse in the west.
Topographic map of the municipality of Albrandswaard, Sept. 2014.