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Velsen Municipality

Velsen

Velsen-Zuid is a town in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of , and lies about 9 km north of . Velsen-Zuid developed around the church founded by Willibrord in the 8th century.
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  • Type: Village with 2,020 residents
  • Description: village in Velsen, Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Postal code: 1981

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sportpark Schoonenberg and Driehuis railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Reinjansma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, branded as BUKO Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Eredivisie club Telstar and Eredivisie Vrouwen club Telstar. It is located in Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands.

Railway station
Photo: Edoardo Sattin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located in , the . The station opened on 29 September 1957 on the Haarlem–Uitgeest railway. The station has 2 platforms.

Museum
Photo: Zandcee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum located on the northern side of the sluice gates at , in the former "buizengieterij" of Koninklijke Hoogovens, now Tata Steel IJmuiden, on the Buizenweg in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kennemerland and Heemskerk.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a region in North-Holland. Many foreign travelers make a day-trip to the historic cities of and , while the locals come here for it's nature, dunes and seaside resorts.

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is a municipality and a town in the , in the province of . It is located in the region.

Town
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is a port town in the province of . It is the main town in the municipality of which lies mainly to the south-east. Including its large sea locks, it straddles the mouth of the to .

Velsen

Latitude
52.46° or 52° 27′ 36″ north
Longitude
4.6514° or 4° 39′ 5″ east
Population
2,020
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NL VEL
Open location code
9F46FM62+2H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 901231836
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2745673
Wiki­data ID
Q3330170
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Zeeuws—“Velsen” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Catalan: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Cebuano: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Chinese: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Dutch: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Dutch: “Velsen”
  • Dutch: “Velzen”
  • French: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • French: “Velsen”
  • German: “Velsen”
  • Indonesian: “Velsen”
  • Irish: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Italian: “Velsen”
  • Limburgan: “Velsen”
  • Lithuanian: “Velsenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Persian: “ولسن زوید”
  • Polish: “Velsen”
  • Portuguese: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Portuguese: “Velsen”
  • Spanish: “Velsen-Zuid”
  • Swedish: “Velsen”
  • Ukrainian: “Велзен-Зейд”
  • Zeeuws: “Velsen-Zuud”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Velsen”. Photo: Gmhogervorst, CC BY 1.0 nl.