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Heemskerk
Sign in to saveHeemskerk ( ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located in the Kennemerland region.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Heemskerk
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 21210 Kasteel Assumburg 2.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Assumburg castle in Heemskerk
- Settlement.image_flag
- Heemskerk vlag.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of arms of Heemskerk.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 80x80px
- Settlement.image_map
- Map - NL - Municipality code 0396 (2009).svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Highlighted position of Heemskerk in a municipal map of North Holland
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- Location in North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Amsterdam metropolitan area
- Settlement.governing_body
- Municipal council
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Heemskerk
- Demonym
- Heemskerker
- Population
- 39191
- Area
- 31.88
- Elevation
- 2
- Official website
- www.heemskerk.nl
- Image
- 2013-Heemskerk.jpg
- Households
- 16751
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- Commons gallery
- Heemskerk
- Commons category
- Gemeente Heemskerk
- postal code
- 1960–1969
- contact page URL
- www.heemskerk.nl/contact-en-openingstijden
- native label
- Heemskerk
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +310251
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Heemskerk ( ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located in the Kennemerland region.
==History== The town was formed during the Middle Ages. In an official deed from the year of 1063, the town was known as Hemezen Kyrica, Latinized Frisian meaning Church of Hemezen, a Frisian nun who lived in a religious house there. Heemskerk knows many historical monuments, among them the Huldtoneel (lit. the "Inaugurate Stage"), an artificial hill located near the current Rijksstraatweg, where once the Counts of Holland were inaugurated. According to tradition, the Huldtoneel was used before the Roman Era as a Germanic sanctuary. In the nineteenth century Jonkheer Gevers finally made the Huldtoneel a monument – as it is known today – and ordered passers-by to honour the monument.
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