Amsteldiepdijk is a dike between Van Ewijcksluis and the island of

Wieringen Wieringen () is located in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. Now a part of the municipality of Hollands Kroon, it was a separate municipality before 2012. Its name first appeared in 8th and 9th century records. By 1200 it was an i ...

. It was built in 1924 and closes a portion of the Amsteldiep and of the Ulkediep. It is often considered to be the first work of engineering of the

Zuiderzee works The Zuiderzee Works () is a system of dams and Levee, dikes, land reclamation and water drainage work, which was the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the dammin ...

. With the small dike, the former island (1200 to 1932) of Wieringen is connected on the western side with the mainland of North Holland and is no longer an island. The dam serves as a prototype in some way to works to come on the future

IJsselmeer The IJsselmeer (; , ), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed-off freshwater lake in the central Netherlands bordering the Provinces of the Netherlands, provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland. It covers an area of with a ...

. Some errors served as lessons. A collapse is still visible on the side of the lake Amstelmeer. The government decided that it was the fault of the contractor, and ultimately he had to pay damages to the state. Prime contractors joined forces in a consortium, the ''Society for the implementation of work of the Zuiderzee''.D.J. Wolffram, 70 jaar ingenieurskunst. Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken 1919-1989 (Lelystad 1997) This ''small dike'' is important as the first time that boulder clay was used in the construction of dam. It remained to build the ''large dam'' in the south to close the polder

Wieringermeer Wieringermeer () is a polder and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Since 2012 Wieringermeer has been a part of the new municipality of Hollands Kroon. Population centres The former municipality of Wier ...

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