Anna Paulowna

Anna Pavlovna ( listen? / I ) is a city and a former municipality in the north- west of the Netherlands in the province of North Holland. The municipality covered an area of ​​77.56 km ², of which 2.59 km ² water surface. In Anna Pavlovna 14.252 people ( 31 December 2010).

The municipality Anna Pavlovna is merged on January 1, 2012 together with the communities Niedorp, Wieringen and Wieringermeer, the municipality Hollands Kroon.

Geography

The municipality Anna Pavlovna included the villages Breezand, Small Sluis, Nieuwe Luis, Spoorbuurt, Van Ewijcksluis and Wieringerwaard.

History

Anna Pavlovna located on a polder, which was drained in the 19th century.

Anna Pavlovna was named after the Dutch Queen Anna Pavlovna, wife of King William II, named.

Economy

The economic Anna Paulownas restricted mainly to the bulb-growing, in the community there is the largest contiguous Flower Fields area of ​​the world. Every year in late April / early May, the flowers are held in Anna Pavlovna days and Breezand.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gerbrand Bakker (born 1962 ), writer
  • Adrianus Schenk ( 1944), speed skaters
Telephone numbers in the Netherlands Anna Pavlovna of Russia William II of the Netherlands Gerbrand Bakker (novelist) Ard Schenk
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