Pijnacker 2

For my thirtieth datestamp I went back to the The Hague region since a few years connected to Rotterdam by metro line E (the Erasmus line). I got out at Pijnacker-Zuid in stead of centre which ment I did not visit the post office at Bruna, but the parcel point at Primera.

Pijnacker is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located about 4 km east of the city of Delft, in the municipality of Pijnacker-Nootdorp. The first mention of the name Pijnacker ("Pinacker") dates from 1222. The name is thought to be a combination of 'akker' (crop field) and 'pine' (punishment, torment) pointing to a place of punishment. Another meaning of 'pine' is trouble or heavy labour and that would mean that there is heavy labour to work in the fields.

Pijnacker was a separate municipality until 2002, when it merged with Nootdorp. In and around Pijnacker there are big and attractive nature areas, of which one is the Ackerdijkse Plassen, one of the most important bird areas in the Netherlands.

City/town:       Pijnacker

Municipality:   Pijnacker-Nootdorp

Area:              29,14 km² (Pijnacker-Nootdorp 38,61 km²)

Population:    25.155 (2018) (Pijnacker-Nootdorp 54.321, 1 January 2019)

Website:        pijnacker-nootdorp.nl

Parcel point

Primera Keijzershof

Hoefpladplein 9

2643 KD  PIJNACKER

primera.nl/primera-pijnacker-keijzershof

Date sent: 7 July 2017

Date postmark: 7 July 2017

Date received: 8 July 2017

Number of days: 1

Envelope in collection: 220