{{Infobox settlement | name = Laarwijk | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | population_total = circa 100 | population_as_of = 2018 | population_footnotes = <ref name="groenroodwit"/> | pushpin_map = Suriname | pushpin_mapsize = 300 | map_caption = The location of Laarwijk in Suriname | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Suriname}} | subdivision_type1 = District | subdivision_name1 = Commewijne | subdivision_type2 = Resort | subdivision_name2 = Meerzorg | coordinates = {{coord|5|42|N|55|03|W|region:SR|display=inline}} | timezone = ART | utc_offset = -3 }}
'''Laarwijk''' is a settlement and a former sugar plantation in the Commewijne District in Suriname. Laarwijk is situated along the Suriname River and can only be reached by boat (via Domburg).<ref name="groenroodwit"/>
==History== Laarwijk was founded in 1737.<ref name="plantage">{{cite web|url=https://www.surinameplantages.com/archief/l/laarwijk|title=Plantage Laarwijk|website=Suriname Plantage|access-date=17 May 2020|language=nl}}</ref> The government bought the plantation on 5 August 1899, and allocated it for small-scale agriculture.<ref name="plantage"/> In 2020 plans were announced to build a bridge between Laarwijk and Domburg in order to develop the area, and relieve traffic congestion in Wanica and Commewijne.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.starnieuws.com/index.php/welcome/index/nieuwsitem/56735|title=PL wil met brug Domburg-Laarwijk landbouw ontwikkelingen |website=Star Nieuws|access-date=17 May 2020|language=nl}}</ref> Traffic up to now has to use the Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge between Paramaribo and Meerzorg.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.entoen.nu/nl/suriname/suriname/jules-wijdenboschbrug|title=Infrastructuur|website=En Toen.nu|access-date=17 May 2020|language=nl}}</ref>
== Economy == After years of political prevarication in January 2010, Laarwijk has received a connection to the electricity grid. A cable is pulled from Domburg under the Suriname River. A generator which was installed just before the elections in 1996, had never produced a single kilowatt.<ref name="groenroodwit">{{cite web|url=https://groenroodwit.nl/laarwijk/|title=Laarwijk|website=Green Rood Wit|date=24 September 2018 |access-date=17 May 2020|language=nl}}</ref>
==Notable people== * Eugène Drenthe (1925–2009), poet and playwright.<ref name=rnw>{{cite news|first=Sam|last=Jones|title=In Memoriam: Eugène Drenthe|url=http://surinaams.caribiana.nl/innederland/car20090401_drenthe|work=Radio Nederland Wereldomroep|date=2009-04-01|accessdate=2009-04-14|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405212229/http://surinaams.caribiana.nl/innederland/car20090401_drenthe|archivedate=2009-04-05}}</ref>
==References== <references />
* Parts of the article have been translated from Laarwijk article on the Dutch Wikipedia, version on 27 May 2008.
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