Creil, Netherlands Explained

Creil
Settlement Type:Village
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Netherlands
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Flevoland
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Noordoostpolder
Pushpin Map:Netherlands Flevoland#Netherlands
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Creil in the province of Flevoland
Coordinates:52.7631°N 5.6614°W
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Elevation M:-3
Area Total Km2:32.38
Established Title:Established 1953
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Total:1,695
Population As Of:2021
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Density Urban Km2:auto
Timezone1:CET
Utc Offset1:+1
Timezone1 Dst:CEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postcode
Postal Code:8312
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:0527

Creil is one of the ten so-called green villages (Dutch: groendorpen) in the Dutch province of Flevoland. It is a part of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, and lies about 6 km northwest of Emmeloord.

Name

The name Creil comes from the name of a former village that was once on the coast of the Zuiderzee, which was in turn named after the Creil Woods that was once located northeast of North-Holland, in what is now the IJsselmeer, roughly between Texel and Enkhuizen.

History

Modern Creil was designed by the Board of the Wieringermeer, one of whose jobs was to design and oversee the construction of the settlements in the newly created polders, construction of the town started in 1953.[3]

Facilities

In 2004, a building formerly belonging to the Catholic church in the centre of Creil was restructured into a service centre called The Saalicon. It houses a pharmacy, clinic, hair salon, centre for the elderly and several art exhibitions of local artists.

Creil is home to three elementary schools, the Catholic Jan Roothaan-school, the public elementary school De Springplank and the Christian elementary school De Regenboog. These schools share the same building and share many public facilities such as the schoolyard and the gymnastics hall.

The land surrounding Creil is home to large amounts of bulb cultivation, and every spring the village organises the Bloembollen Vakdagen Flevoland, a competition between local bulb flower growers.[4]

Creil is home to a football club, SC Creil, and houses a Protestant church.[5]

Transportation

Creil has a bus connection, Line 77, which connects Creil with other villages in the Noordoostpolder.[6]

The line makes three stops on three bus stations in Creil, namely the Klutenpad, Creil and Wrakkenpad stations.Despite being close in proximity, there is no direct bus line to Bant.

Creil is connected by road via the provincial roads N712, which runs through the town, and N715.These provincial roads form the main road connection with other towns in the area and subsequently with the larger motorway and highway network.The N712 runs through Creil from the southwest to the northeast, connecting to Espel in the southwest and to Rutten in the northeast. The N715 branches off just to the northeast of Creil and connects Bant to the east.

Creil has no rail connection; the nearest train stations are in Kampen, Meppel, Zwolle, Dronten and Lelystad.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Postcodetool for 8312BA . Dutch . . Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland . Het Waterschapshuis . 13 January 2015.
  2. Web site: Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021 . Central Bureau of Statistics . 12 April 2022.
  3. Web site: Directie van de Wieringermeer, afdeling Noordoostpolderwerken. https://archive.today/20150118030854/http://www.canonnoordoostpolder.nl/asp/canon.asp?t=show&var=1108. dead. 18 January 2015. Het land wordt bestuurd. 13 January 2015. Dutch.
  4. Web site: Bloembollen Vakdagen Flevoland ontmoetingsplek land- en tuinbouw. Het mysterie van de tulp. Bloembollen Vakdagen Flevoland. 13 January 2015. Dutch.
  5. Web site: SC Creil. SC Creil. 13 January 2015. Dutch.
  6. Web site: Dienstregeling Lijn 77. connexxion.nl. 13 January 2015. Dutch. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030120/http://www.connexxion.nl/dienstregeling/lijn?id=Y077. 4 March 2016. dead.