Beemster
Beemster | |
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Former municipality | |
Middenbeemster town centre | |
Location of the former municipality of Beemster in North Holland | |
| Coordinates: 52°33′N 4°55′E / 52.550°N 4.917°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | North Holland |
| Municipality | Purmerend |
| Area | |
• Total | 72.07 km2 (27.83 sq mi) |
| • Land | 70.58 km2 (27.25 sq mi) |
| • Water | 1.49 km2 (0.58 sq mi) |
| Elevation | −4 m (−13 ft) |
| Population (January 2021) | |
• Total | 10,110 |
| • Density | 143/km2 (370/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 1460–1464 |
| Area code | 0299 |
| Website | www |
| Official name | Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder) |
| Criteria | Cultural: i, ii, iv |
| Reference | 899 |
| Inscription | 1999 (23rd Session) |
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Beemster (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbeːmstər] ⓘ) 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. The original well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been preserved intact. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads.
Beemster merged into the existing municipality of Purmerend on 1 January 2022.