Brielle

Brielle, also referred to as Den Briel is a town, municipality and historic seaport within the western Netherlands, within the province of South Holland, on the north facet of the island of Voorne-Putten, on the mouth of the New Maas. The municipality covers an area of 31.14 km2 of which three.58 km2 is water. In 2017 its populace changed into sixteen,976. The municipality of Brielle also consists of the communities Vierpolders and Zwartewaal. Brielle is a very antique, fortified metropolis. Its name is derived from the Celtic phrase brogilo.

The oldest writings approximately Brielle suggest that the contemporary location is the "new" Brielle. Den ouden Briel have to were located some other place at the Voorne-Putten Island. It received metropolis rights in 1306. The town become for a long term the seat of the Count of Voorne, until this fiefdom became added to Holland in 1371. It had its own harbour and traded with the countries across the Baltic Sea. Brielle even had its very own trading colony in Sweden.