Doornspijk is a village in the Dutch province of

Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Nethe ...

. It is located in the municipality of Elburg. The village was first mentioned in 796 as Thornspiic, and is a combination of thorn and tapering land. The original village was flooded by the former

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in 1825, and current village formed around the church after 1829. The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1829, and has been extended into a cruciform church in 1950. Doornspijk was home to 540 people in 1840. Doornspijk was a separate municipality until 1974, when it became a part of Elburg.

Notable people from Doornspijk

* Didericus Heineken (1730-1795), (in Dutch) a minister of the

Dutch Reformed Church The Dutch Reformed Church (, , abbreviated NHK ) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the traditional denomination of the Dutch royal famil ...

, and his wife Theodora Segerina van Lom, ancestors of Freddy Heineken * Anne van Schuppen (born 1960), long-distance runner * Duncan Huisman (born 1971), racing car driver * Anke Birnie (born 1943), sculptor

References

Populated places in Gelderland Former municipalities of Gelderland Elburg {{gelderland-geo-stub