Westbroek

Westbroek is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 6 km northwest of Bilthoven.

Weather now

cached 1127h ago

20°overcast clouds

76% 0.5 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality: Westbroek
Region: Utrecht
Country: Nederland
Population: 1,197
Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

4 sections

Contents

History
Gallery
References
External links

Westbroek is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 6 km northwest of Bilthoven.

Westbroek consists mainly of a ribbon of farms along a dike. The village is surrounded by a number of polders: the Polder Westbroek, the Kerkeindse Polder, and the Polder Achttienhoven in the north, and the Molenpolder and Polder de Kooi in the south. The Molenpolder is a nature reserve.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Westbroek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.