Beemster

Beemster is a former municipality in the , in the province of . The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612.
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  • Type: Locality with 10,100 residents
  • Description: former municipality in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands
  • Also known as: “Beemster polder”, “Beemsterpolder”, “Polder ta‘ Beemster”, and “Беемстер”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Johannes de Doperkerk and De Nachtegaal.

Church
Photo: Arhu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Windmill
Photo: Quistnix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a windmill.

Fort
Photo: Janericloebe, Public domain.
is situated 4 km south of Beemster.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middenbeemster and De Rijp.

Village
Photo: Arhu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the province of .

Village
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is a village and former island in the province of . is situated 5 km west of Beemster.

Village
Photo: Arch, Public domain.
is a town in the province of .

Beemster

Latitude
52.5625° or 52° 33′ 45″ north
Longitude
4.9157° or 4° 54′ 57″ east
Population
10,100
Elevation
-4 metres (-13 feet)
Open location code
9F46HW68+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 975309515
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­polder
Geo­Names ID
12750410
Wiki­data 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: “贝姆斯特”
  • Chinese: “贝姆斯特尔”
  • Croatian: “Beemster”
  • Czech: “Beemster”
  • Danish: “Beemster”
  • Dutch: “Beemster”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Бемстер”
  • Urdu: “بیمسٹر”
  • Venetian: “Beemster”
  • Vietnamese: “Beemster”
  • Volapük: “Beemster”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beemster”
  • Western Frisian: “Beemster”
  • Zeeuws: “Beemster”

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