Beemster

Also known as Beemster polder

comune olandese

AI overview

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

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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

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Article · Italiano

Beemster è una municipalità dei Paesi Bassi di 8.592 abitanti situata nella provincia dell'Olanda Settentrionale. Beemster è stato il primo polder olandese ad essere ricavato da un lago; l'acqua venne estratta dal lago attraverso l'uso di mulini a vento. Il polder Beemster venne creato nel periodo tra il 1609 ed il 1612. Sono stati preservati intatti l'ordine dei campi, strade, canali, argini ed insediamenti, tutti impostati secondo progetti in stile classico e rinascimentale. Parallelamente alla griglia delle strade si è sviluppata una griglia di canali.

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