Dirksland

Dirksland is a place and previous municipality in the municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee in the Dutch province of South Holland, at the island of Goeree Overflakkee. The village has approximately 5000 inhabitants. Dirksland has its own sanatorium, the Van Weel-Bethesda hospital. This medical institution has an critical characteristic for health care at Goeree-Overflakkee and the encircling regions. Until 1 January 2013, Dirksland turned into an independent municipality.

From 1966 to 2012, the other cores of the previous municipality had been Herkingen and Melissant. Dirksland has a restrained range of stores, partly because of the fast distance to the local care middle Middelharnis. The weekly marketplace is on Saturday morning from 8 am to twelve.30 pm on the Geldersedijk, positioned next to the Coop. The Dutch Reformed Church of Dirksland is placed inside the middle of the antique center of the village and dates from the 15th century. He changed into in the beginning committed to John the Baptist.