Schoonhoven
(population: 12,195
as of 2007) is a city and municipality in the western
Netherlands, in the province of
South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 6.96 km² (of which 0.67 km² water). It is the third-smallest municipality in the Netherlands in land area (after
Bennebroek and
Rozenburg).A shows the north and west town walls, which were common during medieval times in the Netherlands. The only remaining medieval entrance gate of Schoonhoven is the Veerpoort (Ferry Gate) next to the
Lek River (see external link 4). This Veerpoort has protected Schoonhoven from the floods of the river
Rhine and from the sea during the
North Sea flood of 1953 and is still fully functional as a water barrier today.
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