Wieringen

Wieringen (population: 8,451 in 2004) is a municipality consisting of the former island of Wieringen in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. There are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer. The municipality covers an area of 212.50 km² (of which 185.73 km² is water) and includes these towns, villages and townships: Dam, De Haukes, De Hoelm, Den Oever, Hippolytushoef, Hollebalg, Noordburen, Oosterklief, Oosterland, Smerp, ...

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• Wieringen - History

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City rights are a medieval phenomenon in the history of the Low Countries. City rights, which were granted by a liegelord, usually acount, duke or similar member of high nobillity, gave settlements certain privileges that settlements without city rights did not have. To stimulate the establishment of cities, landlords started to grant privileges to settlements around the year A.D. 1000. The total package of these privileges are the city rights. City rights turned settlements into interesting locations for merchants. This ...

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• City rights in the Netherlands - City rights
• City rights in the Netherlands - Granting of city rights chronologically

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The Zuider Zee (pronounced [ˈzaɪdə(r) zeɪ], Dutch: Zuiderzee, pronounced [ˈzœydɚzeː]) was a shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km inland and at most 50 km wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 meters and a coastline of about 300 km. It covered 5,000 square km (2,000 square miles). Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the na ...

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• Zuider Zee - History and disasters
• Zuider Zee - Geography and development

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The Afsluitdijk (Closure-dike) is a major dam in the Netherlands, constructed between 1927 and 1933 and running from Den Oever on Wieringen in North Holland province, to the village of Zurich (mun. Wûnseradiel) in Fryslân province, over a length of 32 km and a width of 90 m, at an initial height of 7.25 m above sea-level ( 53° 00' 00" N  05° 10' 00" E) . It is a fundamental part of the larger Zuiderzee Works, damming off the Zuiderzee, a salt water inlet of the North Sea and turni ...

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Belt can refer to the following objects: A belt (clothing) is an article of clothing worn around the waist. A belt (mechanical) is a looped, flexible connection, used for power transmission and conveyance systems. Belt (firearm) refers to a single row of cartridges which are held together with cloth or metal links, for use in a (typically automatic) firearm. Belt track is a common term for Kegresse track a kind of track drive that uses reinforced flexible belts instead of linked belts for tracti

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The other major project started in 1927 was the construction of the 200 km² polder in the northwest, the first and the smallest of the five projected polders. It would replace the body of water south of Wieringen known as the Wieringermeer which would also become the name of the new polder. It would be the only polder reclaimed from the Zuiderzee itself (the others were reclaimed after the Afsluitdijk was finished), but it wasn't entirely the first. A small test polder of some 0.4 km² was constructed in 1926–1927 near Andijk in North Holland to research the effects drainage would have on the soil of the Zuiderze ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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The Wieringmeerpolder is a polder, newly created land. The creation of this polder started in 1927. Originally the polder would have been created after the completion of the Afsluitdijk, but there was a severe lack of agricultural ground. This meant that the dikes for the polder had to be built in the Zuiderzee, a sea, instead of in the milder lake IJsselmeer that the Zuiderzee would become after the completion of the Afsluitdijk. Therefore the dikes had to be tougher and ready to withstand the sea. Draining of th ...

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Wieringermeer, Wieringermeer - Population centres, Wieringermeer - History, Wieringermeer - Local government

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The oldest well-known indication of the name "Urk" is the donation certificate of 966 of Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the Sint Pantaleonsklooster monastery in Cologne. The text reads: "cuiisdam insulae medietatem in Almere, que Urch vocatur" (Latin: "a certain island in the middle of Almere, which is called Urch"). From 1660 to 1792 Urk and Emmeloord (the most northern village of Schokland) belonged to the municipality of Amsterdam. From then to 1950 Urk belonged to the province of Noordholland. From then to 1986 Urk belonged to the province of Overijssel. From then to nowadays Urk belong ...

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Urk, Urk - Geography, Urk - History, Urk - Economy, Urk - Politics, Urk - Dialect, Urk - Folktales, Urk - Born on Urk

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Founded in 1357, Hoorn rapidly grew to become a major harbour town. During Holland's 'Golden Century', Hoorn was an important home base for the Dutch East India Company( VOC ) and a very prosperous centre of trade. The Hoorn fleet plied the seven seas and returned laden with precious commodities. Exotic spices such as pepper, nutmeg, cloves and mace were sold at vast profits. With their skill in trade and seafaring, sons of Hoorn established the town's name far and wide. Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1587-1629) is famous for his violent raids in Dut ...

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Hoorn, Hoorn - Population centres, Hoorn - History, Hoorn - Local government, Hoorn - Railway connections, Hoorn - External link

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North Holland forms a peninsula between the North Sea and the IJsselmeer. More than half of the province consists of reclaimed land in the form of polders and is below sea level. The island of Texel is also part of North Holland. North Holland makes up one region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code ISO 3166-2:NL-NH. ...

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North Holland, North Holland - Geography, North Holland - History, North Holland - Municipalities

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In classical times there was already a body of water in this location, called Lacus Flevo (= the Flevo Lake) by Roman authors. It was much smaller than its later forms and its connection to the main sea was much narrower; it may have been a complex of lakes and marshes and channels, rather than one lake; over time these lakes gradually eroded their soft peat shores and spread. Some part of this area of water was later called the Vlie; it probably flowed into the sea through what is now the Vliestroom channel between the islands ...

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Zuider Zee, Zuider Zee - History and disasters, Zuider Zee - Geography and development

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Based on a subdivision made for the 1947 census, there are ca. 2,400 quarters, subdivided in ca. 11,000 neighborhoods. On the other hand, there is a list of 7,000 places. A large place consists of several quarters, but a small place is only part of a quarter. See links below. ...

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Municipalities in the Netherlands, Municipalities in the Netherlands - Alphabetic list, Municipalities in the Netherlands - Further subdivisions

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The municipality council in 2003 had 17 seats: SGP and Christian Union and CDA formed a coalition. SGP: 5 seats Christian Union: 5 seats CDA: 5 seats Union municipality interests: 2 seats Urk has three aldermen. Each coalition party has provided one. The burgomaster, Mr. D.G. Schutte, is member of the Christian Union. ...

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Urk, Urk - Geography, Urk - History, Urk - Economy, Urk - Politics, Urk - Dialect, Urk - Folktales, Urk - Born on Urk

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A new study, commissioned after doubts had arisen over the financial feasibility of the project, recommended that work should not only continue, but should be accelerated. It was therefore decided to start the next two major projects at the same time, in 1927. The most important of these would be the main dam, the Afsluitdijk (Closure-dike), running from Den Oever on Wieringen to the village of Zurich in Frisia (Dutch: Friesland) over a length of 32 km and a width of 90 m, at an initial hei ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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In 1916 the dikes at several places along the Zuiderzee (the current IJsselmeer) broke under the stress put on them by a winter storm, and the land behind them was flooded as had often happened in previous centuries. This particular flooding, however, provided the decisive impetus to implement the existing plans to tame the Zuiderzee. The concept of making the Zuiderzee more docile had first originated in the seventeenth century, but the ambitious solutions sought then were not ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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The original 1891 plan called for the largest, southeastern polder to be built after the Wieringermeer, but it was decided in 1932 to give precedence to the smaller, and therefore considered easier, northeastern one. This would be the Noordoostpolder, meaning simply "Northeast-polder". Initial financial difficulties meant that it wasn't until 1936 that construction began. Two dikes, totaling 55 km in length, steadily grew in the IJsselmeer, one starting from Lemmer in Friesland and from the island of Urk, the other from Vollenhov ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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The period immediately following World War II was spent restoring the Wieringermeerpolder and catching up with work on the Noordoostpolder, but it wasn't long before attention turned towards the next project: Eastern Flevoland (Oostelijk Flevoland), which at 540 km² was the largest of the new polders. In 1950 work commenced on several construction-islands in the middle of the IJsselmeer, the largest of which would be Lelystad-Haven which housed a community of dike-builders. The experience of the Noordoostpolder had shown ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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The fifth polder does not yet exist and may never be completed. It had been the intention to start building the southwestern polder, known as the Markerwaard, at several points during the project, but other polders took precedence. Parts of it have in fact been built; in 1941 it was decided to begin work on the first section of dike, but the German occupiers stopped construction that same year. This dike originated on Marken, the last of the IJsselmeer islands, and went north for some 2 km where it ends abruptly today. After Worl ...

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Zuiderzee Works, Zuiderzee Works - Prelude, Zuiderzee Works - Zuiderzee becomes IJsselmeer, Zuiderzee Works - New land, Zuiderzee Works - Noordoostpolder, Zuiderzee Works - The Flevolands, Zuiderzee Works - The fifth polder

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