(population: 30,914 in 2004)'s a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, at the crossing of the River Beneden Merwede and the Noord River. The municipality covers an area of 10.77 km² (of which 1.30 km² water). Although Papendrecht's first mentioned in documents dating back to 1105, it remained a small settlement until the 1950s. In the 1960s its development accelerated and almost its entire area's now urbanized. Transportation Papendrecht… (More on Papendrecht)