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Beemster
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Beemster () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands 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 is a former municipality in the Netherlands that was created as the country's first polder—a reclaimed area of land—drained from a lake using windmills between 1609 and 1612. It matters because its original geometric landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been remarkably well preserved, making it historically significant as an example of early Dutch water management and land reclamation engineering.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Beemster
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Former municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Midden beemster.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Middenbeemster town centre
- Settlement.image_flag
- Beemster flag.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Beemster wapen.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Map - NL - Municipality code 0370 (2009).svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Highlighted position of Beemster in a municipal map of North Holland
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of the former municipality of Beemster in North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Purmerend
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 10110
- Area
- 72.07
- Elevation
- -4
- Official website
- www.beemster.net
- Image
- West-Beemster, Jisperweg 29.jpg
- Households
- 3503
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- Commons category
- Beemster
- postal code
- 1460–1464
- water as percent of area
- 3.54
- native label
- Beemster
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2022-01-01
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- Population centres
- History
- World Heritage Site
- Local government
- Notable people
- See also
- Gallery
- References
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- External links
Beemster () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands 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.
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3 mapped locations