Bommenede

Bommenede or Bommenee is a former island, village, and municipality in the Netherlands, located about 5 km east of the city of Brouwershaven.

Bommenede was founded in the early 12th century by monks of the Cistercian monastery of Ter Duinen in Flanders.

van der Aa,[1] John of Bavaria ordered the construction of dykes around the island in 1412, creating the polder of Bommenede.

The following year, the Spanish commander Mondragon besieged it for 20 days, and shot the village to pieces.

The destruction was so great, that the Estates of Holland decided not to rebuild the village, and the last inhabitants left in 1684.

Bommenede (center, in green) in 1650
The siege of Bommenede (1575)
The municipality of Bommenede in 1866