page_title: Rijswijk
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rijswijk / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Rijswijk, de Oude Kerk in straatzichtEnglish: Rijswijk, church (de Oude Kerk) in the street This is an image of rijksmonument number 20047
context_page_description: Rijswijk, formerly known as Ryswick in English, is a town and municipality in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 53,467 in 2019, and it has an area of 14.49 km², 0.44 km² of which is water.
  The municipality also includes the villages 't Haantje and Sion.
context_section_description: Archeological excavations indicate that this area of the coastal dunes was already inhabited some 5500 years ago. The formation of the village Rijswijk took place in the 13th century, and its history was dominated by presence of mansions and estates of the nobility and affluent. Among the many country estates known to have been in Rijswijk are:
  Arentsburg
  Burchvliet
  Cromvliet
  Den Burgh
  De Voorde
  Drievliet
  's-Gravenmade
  Haag- en Delftzicht
  Hilvoorde
  Hoekenburg
  Hofrust
  Hoornwijk
  Huis te Werve
  Huis ter Nieuwburg
  Oversteen
  Overvoorde
  Schoonoord
  Sion
  Steenvoorde
  Te Blotinghe
  Tollenshuis
  Vredenoord
  Welgelegen
  Zuidhoorn
  The Treaty of Ryswick was signed at the Huis ter Nieuwburg in 1697, ending the Nine Years' War. A monument, the Needle of Rijswijk (1792), was erected to commemorate the treaty in the Rijswijk Forest.
  Until 1900 Rijswijk remained a relative small community but it became urbanized during the 20th century when it expanded rapidly. Today, Rijswijk's area has almost been completely built-up. The last major development is the new Ypenburg neighbourhood, built on the lands of the former Ypenburg Airfield but this part of Rijswijk was annexed by The Hague in 2002. Rijswijk is part of the Haaglanden conurbation. During the years its built-up area has grown to the point where it has effectively merged with The Hague, even though it is still a separate municipality.
  Up until 2009 Rijswijk had a polytechnic college for applied sciences; TH Rijswijk (Technische Hogeschool Rijswijk). After a merger with the Haagse Hogeschool, this was moved to the campus of the TUDelft in Delft. The building still remains.
  Istana Negara, one of the six presidential palaces of Indonesia, in the Jakarta neighbourhood of Harmoni (formerly Rijswijk-Molenvliet), was called Palais te Rijswijk during Dutch colonial times.
caption: Rijswijk, church (de Oude Kerk) in the street
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