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Wormerland
Wormerland () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Population centres The municipality of Wormerland contains the following towns, villages and hamlets: It borders the municipalities of: Local government The municipal council of Wormerland consists of 17 seats, which at the 2022 local elections divided as follows: * Partij voor Ouderen en Veiligheid - 5 - 28.17% - 2,066 votes * VVD - 4 - 21.06% - 1,544 votes * GroenLinks - 3 - 20.73% - 1,520 votes * PvdA - 2 - 14.61% - 1,071 votes * CDA - 2 - 9.2% - 675 votes * D66 - 1 - 6.23% - 457 votes Sport facilities Soccer clubs: * WSV'30 (Wormer Sport Vereniging 1930) - Wormer * VV Jisp - Jisp * VV Knollendam - Oostknollendam * DZS (De Zilveren Schapen) - Neck/Wijdewormer * PSCK (Parochiële Sport Club Kalf) - Kalf (Located in Wijdewormer) * ZCFC (Zaandamse Christelijke Football club) - Zaandam (Located in Wijdewormer) Notable people * Tyman Arentsz. Cracht (ca.1590/1600 – 1646) paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jisp, North Holland
Jisp is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 8 km west of Purmerend. History Jisp, in older forms Gispe (1328, 1387), Gyspe (1344), is named after a river with the same name, that had an open connection to the North Sea. Its river name is a composite of 'gis' and 'apa'. The first part means 'gisten', ''to foam''. The second part has the meaning of ''water'', indicating a place where by tidal influences ''foaming water'' occurred. River names containing 'apa' have possibly a prehistoric and Celtic origin, dating back to a period where humans did only live in the area in certain periods of the year to herd their cattle. Jisp is a former whaling village. It used to be an island in the Zuiderzee. It was a separate municipality until 1991, when it merged with Wormer and Wijdewormer to form the new municipality of Wormerland Wormerland () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neck, Netherlands
Neck is a village in the northwest Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Wormerland, North Holland, about 3 km west of Purmerend. The village was first mentioned in 1328 as "sic: van Hicke", and means "neck" which refers to the narrowest point of the waterway separating the Beemster from the Wormer Wormer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 13 km northwest of Amsterdam. The town is situated in the Zaan district, on the eastern side of the river Zaan, across .... The ''polder'' mill Nekkermolen dates from 1631. In 1878, a pumping station was installed, but the wind mill has remained in service to this day to lend a hand, because the water in the polder rises fast during a storm. References Populated places in North Holland Wormerland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oostknollendam
Oostknollendam is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 17 km north west of Amsterdam. The village was first mentioned in 1529 as "tot Knollendam", and means "eastern end of the dam". Oost (east) has been added to distinguish from Westknollendam Westknollendam is a village in the northwest Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Zaanstad, North Holland, about 15 km northwest of Amsterdam. The village is located along the Zaan river. On the opposite shore is Oostknollendam ...". Oost-Knollendam was home to 169 people in 1840. References Populated places in North Holland Wormerland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spijkerboor, North Holland
Spijkerboor is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 10 km west of Purmerend Purmerend () is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The city is surrounded by polders, such as the Purmer, Beemster and the Wormer. Purmerend's population grew relatively slowly until the 1960s .... The village was first mentioned in 1575 as "Spykerboors Gat", and refers to the former meandering waterway between Beemster and Starnmeer. Spijkerboor has place name signs. References Populated places in North Holland Wormerland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wormer
Wormer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Wormerland, and lies about 13 km northwest of Amsterdam. The town is situated in the Zaan district, on the eastern side of the river Zaan, across from Wormerveer. The town is surrounded by the nature area Wormer- en Jisperveld. The village of Oostknollendam, the polder Schaalsmeer (reclaimed in 1631), the polder Enge Wormer (reclaimed in 1634) and a part of the Markerpolder also historically belong to the area of Wormer. Wormer, together with Engewormer (Wormer c.a.), was a separate municipality until 1991, when it became a part of the new municipality of Wormerland. History The inhabitants of Wormer repulsed several attacks of the Frisians and West Frisians in 1280. Floris V, Count of Holland rewarded this with an exemption from paying toll in Holland, an important privilege at that time. Important skirmishes between Spanish troops and the Geuzen took place in Wormer during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wijdewormer
Wijdewormer is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is located in the municipality of Wormerland, about 5 km east of the town of Wormer, in the polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ... "De Wijde Wormer". De Wijde Wormer was poldered in 1626. Wijdewormer was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1991, when it became a part of Wormerland. References Former municipalities of North Holland Populated places in North Holland Wormerland {{NorthHolland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities Of The Netherlands
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, sing. ) and three Caribbean Netherlands, special municipalities ( ) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public body (Netherlands), public bodies (), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces of the Netherlands, provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the Cabinet of the Netherlands, central government and they are ruled by a municipal council (Netherlands), municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal merger (politics), mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beemster
Beemster () is a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands land reclamation, reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612. The original well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been preserved intact. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads. Beemster merged into the existing municipality of Purmerend on 1 January 2022. Population centres The former municipality of Beemster contained the following small towns and villages: History Around 800 AD the area of the modern municipality of Beemster was covered in peat. The name "Beemster" was derived from "Bamestra", the name of a small river in the area. In the period 1150–1250 peat-digging and storm floods enlarged that small river into an inland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
