Beemster
Beemster is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612.Photo: Arhu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Johannes de Doperkerk and De Nachtegaal.
Fort aan de Nekkerweg
Fort
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
Fort aan de Nekkerweg is situated 4 km south of Beemster.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Middenbeemster and De Rijp.
Middenbeemster
Village
Photo: Arhu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Middenbeemster is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the former municipality of Beemster, and lies about 6 km northwest of Purmerend.
De Rijp
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
De Rijp is a village and former island in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Alkmaar, and lies about 10 km northwest of Purmerend, between the Schermer and the Beemster polders. De Rijp is situated 5 km west of Beemster.
Westbeemster
Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
Westbeemster is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the former municipality of Beemster, and lies about 9 km northwest of Purmerend.
Beemster
- Categories: polder and municipality of the Netherlands
- Location: Zaanstreek-Waterland, North Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.5625° or 52° 33′ 45″ northLongitude
4.9157° or 4° 54′ 57″ eastPopulation
10,100Elevation
-4 metres (-13 feet)Open location code
9F46HW68+X7OpenStreetMap ID
way 975309515OpenStreetMap feature
place=polderGeoNames ID
12750410Wikidata ID
Q9900
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Beemster” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Beemster”
- Arabic: “بيمستر”
- Aragonese: “Beemster”
- Armenian: “Բեյմստեր”
- Asturian: “Beemster”
- Azerbaijani: “Bemster”
- Basque: “Beemster”
- Breton: “Beemster”
- Catalan: “Beemster”
- Cebuano: “De Beemster”
- Chinese: “Beemster”
- Chinese: “贝姆斯特”
- Chinese: “贝姆斯特尔”
- Croatian: “Beemster”
- Czech: “Beemster”
- Danish: “Beemster”
- Dutch: “Beemster”
- Dutch: “Beemsterpolder”
- Esperanto: “Beemster”
- Finnish: “Beemster”
- French: “Beemster”
- Georgian: “ბიმსტერი”
- German: “Beemster”
- Greek: “Μπέιμστερ”
- Hebrew: “ביימסטר”
- Hindi: “बीमस्टर”
- Hungarian: “Beemster”
- Indonesian: “Beemster”
- Irish: “Beemster”
- Italian: “Beemster”
- Japanese: “ベームスター干拓地”
- Javanese: “Beemster”
- Korean: “벰스테르”
- Kurdish: “Beemster”
- Latvian: “Bēmsteres polderis”
- Limburgan: “Beemster”
- Low German: “Beemster”
- Luxembourgish: “Beemster”
- Macedonian: “Бемстер”
- Malay: “Beemster”
- Maltese: “Beemster”
- Maltese: “Polder ta‘ Beemster”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Beemster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beemster”
- Norwegian: “Beemster”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Beemster”
- Persian: “بیمستر”
- Polish: “Beemster”
- Portuguese: “Beemster”
- Romanian: “Beemster”
- Russian: “Бемстер”
- Saterfriesisch: “Beemster”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Beemster”
- Slovak: “Beemster”
- Spanish: “Beemster”
- Swedish: “Beemster”
- Turkish: “Beemster”
- Ukrainian: “Беемстер”
- Ukrainian: “Бемстер”
- Urdu: “بیمسٹر”
- Venetian: “Beemster”
- Vietnamese: “Beemster”
- Volapük: “Beemster”
- Waray (Philippines): “Beemster”
- Western Frisian: “Beemster”
- Zeeuws: “Beemster”
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