Weerwater is a small artificial
lake in
Almere Stad, the central district of
Almere in the province
Flevoland
Flevoland () is the twelfth and youngest province of the Netherlands, established in 1986, when the southern and eastern Flevopolders, together with the Noordoostpolder, were merged into one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the countr ...
,
Netherlands. The water and shores are used for recreation.
On and around Weerwater a
cable ski track, a watersportscenter, watchtower,
marina
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships o ...
,
campsite and four beaches:
* Atlantisstrand (South shore)
* Fantasiestrand (southwestern shore)
* Lumièrestrand (eastern shore)
* Stedenwijkstrand (west shore)
The lake started off as a
borrow pit, caused by
excavations for
Almere Haven and is situated north of
Rijksweg 6. Because these excavations caused a new body of water to form, within a
polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed
# Flood plains s ...
, this name "''Weerwater''" ("''water again''") was adopted.
The actual city center of Almere is situated directly to the north shore and the city theatre
Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland 'hovers' over the water.
The perimeter of the Weerwater is approximately .
In 2009, the idea surfaced to let three locally well known writers tell the story about the city of Almere, due to the report 'Almere, stad met verbeelding' ('Almere, city with imagination'). The writers were invited to live in Almere with the task to write about their new residence. The second writer
Renate Dorrestein
Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist.
She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines ''Libelle'' and ''Panorama''. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in ...
named her novel:
Weerwater
In the year 2022 horticultural exhibition
Floriade 2022floriade.almere.nl
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References
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Almere
Lakes of the Netherlands
Tourist attractions in Flevoland