Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude () is a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

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 ...

, located in the

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North Holland North Holland (, ) is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht (province), Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevola ...

. It had a population of 5,760 in August 2017. On 1 January 2019, it merged with the municipality of

Haarlemmermeer Haarlemmermeer () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. Haarlemmermeer is a polder, consisting of land reclaimed from water. The ...

. The municipality was bordered by

Zaanstad Zaanstad () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, Dutch municipality in the province of North Holland, situated northwest of Amsterdam. Its main city is Zaandam. It is part of the conurbation and Amsterdam metropolitan area, metropolitan area of ...

to the north,

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to the east,

to the south,

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...

to the west and

Velsen Velsen () is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal. On the north side of the North Sea Canal there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known as ...

to the northwest.

Population centres

The municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude consisted of the following towns and villages: Haarlemmerliede,

Halfweg Halfweg () is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. Previously a part of the municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, it is currently a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and lies about east of Haarlem. Its name, wh ...

Penningsveer Penningsveer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and lies about east of Haarlem.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. The town is named after ...

Spaarndam Spaarndam () is a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Spaarne river and the IJ lake. The oldest part of the village, on the western side of the Spaarne, belongs to the municipality of Haarlem; the newer part on t ...

(partly),

Spaarnwoude Spaarnwoude is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and lies about northeast of Haarlem. Overview The village was first mentioned in the first half of the 11th century as Spirner ...

, Vinkebrug. Gem-Haarlemmerliedeca-OpenTopo

History

The municipality was formed on 8 September 1857, through the merger of the former municipalities of Haarlemmerliede and Spaarnwoude. On 22 September 1863, Houtrijk en Polanen and Zuidschalkwijk were added to the municipality, of which Zuidschalkwijk was subsequently annexed by the city of

. During the construction of the

North Sea Canal The North Sea Canal () is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. This man-made channel terminates at Amsterdam in the closed- ...

(completed 1867), large portions of the IJ Bay were enclosed with dikes and made into

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 ...

s, thereby enlarging the area of the municipality significantly. However, Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude also lost large areas to the cities of Haarlem and Amsterdam in 1927, 1963, and 1970. On 1 January 2019, the municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude was abolished and merged with the municipality of

Local government

The

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude consisted of 11 seats, which at the final local election in 2014 were divided as follows: * CDA – 4 seats * D66 – 3 seats *

VVD The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( , VVD) is a conservative-liberal political party in the Netherlands. The VVD, whose forerunner was the Freedom Party, is a party of the centre-right that tries to promote private enterprise and ...

– 2 seats * GL – 1 seat * PvdA – 1 seat The last

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was Pieter Heiliegers (

Twinning

Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude is twinned with

Saxilby Saxilby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north-west from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln, on the A57 road at the junction of the B1241. It is part of the Civil parishes in England, civil ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, UK.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Haarlemmermeer Former municipalities of North Holland Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2019