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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
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- North Holland
- Population
- 10110
- Area
- 72.07
- Elevation
- -4
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Edam-Volendam
- Official website
- www.beemster.net
- Image
- West-Beemster, Jisperweg 29.jpg
- Households
- 3503
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- Commons category
- Beemster
- postal code
- 1460–1464
- topic's main category
- Category:Beemster
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- water as percent of area
- 3.54
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Beemster
- native label
- Beemster
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2022-01-01
Sources (10)
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Article · العربية
بيمستر هي مدينة وبلدية بمقاطعة شمال هولندا، هولندا. أيضا بيمستر هي أول ما يسمى بالأرض المستصلحة من البحر في هولندا التي استصلحت من بحيرة، وتم استخراج المياه من البحيرة بواسطة الطواحين الهوائية. وتم تجفيف بيمستر خلال الفترة من 1609 إلى 1612. وظلت محافظة على مناظرها الطبيعية بشكل جيد من حقول وطرق وقنوات وسدود ومستوطنات، التي وضعت وفقاً لمبادئ التخطيط الكلاسيكي وعصر النهضة. وهناك شبكة من القنوات توازي شبكة الطرق في بيمستر. ويقابل الشبكات: يتم تعويض القنوات المغذية أكبر بحوالي كيلومتر واحد من الطرق الكبيرة.
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