Castricum

Castricum ( listen? / I ) is a municipality in the Netherlands, North Holland province. The community had on 1 January 2013 with a population of 34 401. Their total area is 59.93 km ², of which 10.35 km ² water.

Places

The municipality following villages include:

  • The main town of Castricum, where the administrative center ( 20,000 inhabitants )
  • Limmen, amidst the tulip fields
  • Called Bakkum, a seaside resort on the North Sea, also Castricum an Zee
  • Akersloot, surrounded by meadows, on the banks of the lake " Alkmaardermeer "
  • The small hamlet Wouden

Location and economic

The municipality is situated on the North Sea coast and in the dunes south of Alkmaar and Heiloo. The village Castricum has a station on the railway line Alkmaar - Haarlem / Amsterdam. Akersloot located on the motorway between Amsterdam and Alkmaar.

The proximity of the sea, the beach and the sometimes beautifully wooded dunes made ​​Castricum from around 1920, became a popular residence for commuters from neighboring towns. There is also a long time some small sanatoriums for people looking for a cure for their disease by breathing the sea air. Tourism is also important. The floor of Limmen allows the cultivation of tulips, carnations, hyacinths and other bulb plants. In the polders to Akersloot outweighs the beef cattle breeding.

History

Akersloot was in the Middle Ages a far more important town than it is today; it had its own jurisdiction.

Castricum to owe its name to a Roman army camp ( Castra); probably this is not right. But the fact is that traces of settlement have been found from the Roman era and older. Due to flooding and the harsh climate of the area about 250 AD was uninhabited until about 750. In the Eighty Years' War in 1573, as well Akersloot, devastated by the Spaniards, the besieged Alkmaar.

Bakkum was not until around 1812 to this church, Limmen 2003., The likewise very old Limmen the cultivation and export of flower bulbs only developed properly from about 1900, when by the presence of good connections ( railway connection 1870) rewarding and profitable was.

In Castricum there was on 27 August 1799 battle between forces from England and Russia on one side and the France of Napoleon Bonaparte on the other side. The Dutch in the region were at that time still mainly on the French side, and many helped the French troops. After the Russians and the British had conquered Alkmaar, in a campaign to establish a bridgehead across the North Sea, they were defeated at Castricum in an eight-hour battle of the French, which sealed the failure of the Allied invasion of Holland. After the fighting, the villages were looted devastating. Shortly after the French victory at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris was presented with the note: " Alkmaer ".

Attractions

  • Called The beach at Bakkum, also Castricum aan Zee ( nudist beach tourism and visit accessible to a limited extent )
  • Dunes, where you can take walks
  • The Alkmaardermeer, where you can practice water sports ( Akersloot has a marina )
  • The old church (15th century) in the village of Castricum
  • The Flower Fields at Limmen with the open from Easter to May 15 " Hortus Bulborum " ( garden with historic, rare tulip varieties ).

Sons and daughters of the town

Twinning

  • Balatonfüred (Hungary )
  • Spitak (Armenia )
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