Den Helder
Den Helder ( listen? / I ) is a Dutch community on the North Sea coast in the province of North Holland. On January 1, 2013, it had 56 976 inhabitants, according to CBS.
- 3.1 port
- 3.2 airport
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Gallery
Geography
Den Helder is located at the northern tip of the peninsula, North -Holland, about 80 km north of Amsterdam. From here you can reach by ferry to the neighboring West Frisian island of Texel. To the south of Den Helder joins the community Schagen, southeast of the town of Holland Kroon on.
Between Den Helder and Texel Marsdiep, the only access for larger ships from the North Sea to the IJsselmeer and therefore to the once important commercial towns and ports Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Amsterdam. Lies Most of the inhabitants of the municipality of Den Helder, approximately 44,000, live in the same city. The other residents of the community live in the district Julianadorp ( around 15,000 ) and in the nostalgic whaling Huisduinen (approximately 1,000). In addition to these two villages to Den Helder are still the peasantry De Kooy, Friese Buurt Noorderhaven Blauwe Keet and as well as the Village Julianadorp aan Zee.
Den Helder offers seven kilometers of beach, woods and dunes, magnificent meadows, polders and tidelands.
Climate
Den Helder is one of the Dutch municipalities with the most hours of sunshine a year. Nevertheless, the weather is strongly influenced by the North Sea.
History
On Texel served for centuries the ships of the Dutch East India Company with food and fresh water, before they set out on their long journey to East India.
Den Helder has always had great strategic importance and still has a large naval port. The heavily fortified city offered with its many cannon enemy ships it to the rich towns on the Zuiderzee (the present IJsselmeer ) were after, an extremely well-fortified impression. Hence the name " Den Helder ", derived from the Helsdeur. Translated it means " To the Gates of Hell ". There is another version of the origin of the name: The early inhabitants have always had to contend with the natural power of the North Sea and therefore gave their wild home that name.
The early inhabitants of Den Helder, farmers and fishermen, improved their livelihood on through " Jutten ". This means they sought after beaches flotsam from usable. Also false beacons were placed to bring ships to the beaches and to plunder and then rob the crew on stormy nights. Jutter therefore were beach robbers also took dead in purchasing. Den Helder is also called Nieuwediep. The inhabitants are as Nieuwediepers or Jutters (pronounced Jötters ) known in idealization of the past.
Economy and infrastructure
For the bulb-growing, the largest contiguous flower bulb fields in the world are along the dune edge in Den Helder and the surrounding area.
The ever- growing tourism (1.5 million overnight stays in 2005 ) provides more jobs.
Port
The direct connection with the open sea and is easily reached from the north-east ( Germany and Scandinavia) and south ( Amsterdam Schiphol) from the port of Den Helder for the envelope from the sea is best suited for inland water and rail network.
The largest employer in Marine City resident since 1815, is the Royal Navy and its related fields.
Many supply trips to the offshore platforms in the North Sea depart from the port of Den Helder.
The fishing is one of the most modern fish auctions in Europe are available.
The Teso ferry to Texel stores of investors in Den Helder.
Naval port
Training facility for lifeboats
Ferry to Texel
Airport
The Den Helder Airport is used mainly by helicopters, which fly daily to the oil rigs in the North Sea. 1996 alone, there were 14,000 helicopter flights in 2003 was awarded the airport by the Dutch government permission to increase the number to 20,000. Various aircraft companies care more frequently freight, charter and business trips abroad. The expansion of the airport makes for an ever-increasing activity.
Culture and sights
Museums
In Den Helder are:
- Kathe Kruse toy and doll museum ( closed since January 2013).
- The Botanical Garden Plant De Oranjerie
- The Harbour Museum Willemsoord ( " Old Empire shipyard Willemsoord " ) with
- The local Lifeboat Museum Dorus Rijkers and
- The local Marine Museum
- Museum Fort Kijkduin
Gallery
The Prins Hendrik in front of the lifeboat museum
Marine museum with the submarine Tonijn
Seen lighthouse Lange Jaap Fort Kijkduin
Sons and daughters of the town
- Marleen Barth ( b. 1964 ), Dutch politician and journalist
- Karel P. C. de Bazel, Dutch architect
- Gerardus ' t Hooft, Dutch physicist
- André Jolles, Dutch literary scholar
- Ed Nijpels, Dutch politician
- Anton Pieck, Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker
- Erwin Koen, a Dutch footballer
- Rijkman Groenink, a Dutch banker, CEO of ABN Amro
- Henri Christiaan Pieck, also called Den Helder, painter, architect and graphic designer, a resistance fighter against National Socialism, a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and a member of the Dutch resistance group