Schipluiden
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Schipluiden is a village in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is the seat of the city council of the municipality of Midden-Delfland.
The village was grounded relatively late in the 15th century and evolved around the Keenenburg castle, that doesn't exist anymore. The Dutch reformed church in the village centre belonged to the roman catholic German Order before 1572, when the calvinists took over control of the church. The village inhabitants worked in the food trade from the agrarian area Westland to the cities of Vlaardingen and Delft. Most of the population became Roman Catholic in the 17th century. For sermons, they had to go to the Roman Catholic church, some kilometres out of the village. A new Roman Catholic church was build in the 1960s. Schipluiden was a small agrarian village until the 1950s, when it began to grow. Many middle class people from the cities came living in the village in the past decennia, but the village kept its village culture.
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