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Kladde is a small neighborhood located in the South
Western part of Holland, in the vicinity of the city of Bergen op Zoom, approx 35 km
south of the port of Rotterdam, 15 km North of Antwerp, located in
the Dutch part of Brabant county.
- Location - Approx 1 km North from Lepelstraat, near the
Koeveringsedijk (road from Lepelstraat to Koeveringen /
Steenbergen). Kladde consists of the following roads: Kladde, Kladse weg, Kladse dijk, Slotweg and Ruige Velden.
- Statistical data - In 1840 - 17 houses, and 74
residents, currently - 100 houses and 250 residents.
- History - Founded in approx 1692, referred in the
historical papers under the
names Kladde, Leemkladde, De Kladt, De Kladde and De Klad.
Kladde or Leemkladde refers to a lump of clay (kluit,
klodder, kledder, klad- clod or lump), from which the name
has been evolved over the past years.
Kladde has been through 1996 been divided over two
municipalities, Halsteren and Steenbergen. In 1996 Kladde,
Lepelstraat and Halsteren where united and brought under the
enlarged municipality of Bergen op Zoom and the whole of
Kladde was made part of the municipally of Bergen op Zoom.
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