Volendam

Volendam is a district of the Dutch municipality of Edam- Volendam in the province of North Holland. Although Volendam, with 22,000 inhabitants, the largest district of the municipality, Edam is the capital. The village on the IJsselmeer, every year attracts many tourists and the costume Volendam is often regarded as a national costume of the Netherlands, although there is no national costume. The costume is marketed by the Dutch government for tourism so.

History

The original name of the place was Volendam. Volendam is located at the place where the little river E or ije in the Middle Ages led to the Zuiderzee. 1357 was created by damming the E by the citizens of the village of Volendam Edam. The village was quickly populated by farmers and fishermen. Volendam has certain customs and traditions with which the village is different from the rest of the Netherlands and the population has its own dialect, called Volendam. During the Reformation, the village of the Roman Catholic Church remained, in contrast to the immediate area, loyal. Middle of the 20th century is said to have the world's highest number of Roman Catholic ordinations per square kilometer, the Netherlands and even the highest number of missionaries per square kilometer Volendam. The secularization has finished, but Volendam remains a center of Roman Catholic worship practices.

Music

Volendam is since the 1960s, the center of a private music industry and the village has produced many internationally known musicians. This music is also known under the name Palingsound ( eel - sound ), because of the history Volendams as fishing. Known Volendammer musicians are: The Cats, BZN, Jantje Smit, Nick & Simon and 3JS.

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• Place in North Holland
• Edam- Volendam