Boomgaardshoek is a neighborhood of

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. This part of

Hoogvliet Hoogvliet () is a borough of Rotterdam, Netherlands. As of 1 January 2023, it had 35,885 inhabitants. There is also a national chain of Dutch supermarkets with the same name. History The village Hoogvliet was first mentioned on 26 May 1326 in th ...

was built at the end of 1970s and early 1980s and finished by the end of the 1980s. When they started building this area, it belonged to

Poortugaal Poortugaal is a village (''dorp'') that is situated near the municipality of Rotterdam in the South Holland province of the Netherlands. Together with neighbouring Rhoon, Poortugaal forms the municipality of Albrandswaard. The village was fir ...

, in 1986 it became part of Rotterdam. One part of Boomgaardshoek has bird names and the other part has names of

flowers Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants ( angiosperms). Typically, they are structured in four circular levels, called whorls, around the end of a stalk. These whorls include: calyx, m ...

. Those two are separated by a bike lane which comes from south

Zalmplaat Zalmplaat is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the ...

to North

Tussenwater Tussenwater is an above-ground subway station of the Rotterdam Metro lines C and D. The station is located in the borough Hoogvliet in Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in ...

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Neighbourhoods of Rotterdam {{SouthHolland-geo-stub