Purmerland
Purmerland is the name of the North Holland town and part of the former hogen of Vrijen Heerlijkheid of Purmerend en Purmerland and the capital of its succeeding hogen of Vrijen Heerlijkheid Purmerland s Ilpendam. Nowadays Purmerland located in the large village land sea.
- 3.1 towns of Edam and Monnickendam
- 3.2 Family Overlander (van Purmerland ) Banning Cocq Hooft -
- 3.3 House De Graeff
- 3.4 De Jongh family
Chronicle
The first mention Purmerlands happened in the 12th century. In 1410 arose Count William VI. for his trusted councilor, governor and financier Willem Eggert Purmerland (including the supplied him affiliated Ilpendam ) hogen Holland- Straubing with Purmerend Purmerend Heerlijkheid to Vrijen en en Purmerland. He and his successors bore the title of army or Vrijheer van Purmerend en Purmerland respectively. Purmerland s Ilpendam. The glory came over the viscount of Montfoort (1439-1481) to the House of Egmond ( 1483 ). Between 1487 and 1603 made parts of the glory of the territory of the newly formed county Egmond. Lamoraal of Egmond, who by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe literary processed at its plant Egmont resistance fighters was between the years 1540 and 1568 rule owner. After the treason of Egmond at the Spanish Habsburgs whose entire property was confiscated. In 1582, the glory was dissected; Purmerend and Neck village were carved out of the right of association Purmerherrlichkeit and came back to the Dutch county. Purmerland and Ilpendam remained until the year 1610 under the administration of Grafelijkheids Rekenkamer van de Domeinen, which appointed the mayor and Schepen together with the Vroedschap. Between the years 1610 and 1618, the glory Purmerland Ilpendam and was under the administration of the two towns of Edam and Monnickendam.
In 1618 a portion of confiscated property from the hands of the bankrupt's estate administrators of the Counts of Egmond was sold; as the new High glory Purmerland s Ilpendam was sold to the Amsterdam patrician Volkert Overlander. Overlander founded Located close by Ilpendam construction of the castle Ilpenstein in 1622, a new glory center. Subsequently, the glory by inheritance into the possession of Frans Banning Cocq, a prominent Amsterdam regents, which serves as the central figure in Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch shows. From the year 1678 belonged Purmerland - Ilpendam the Amsterdam De Graeff family, which held an important cultural and political role in the Netherlands during the Golden Age.
During the Golden Age, the landscape of the so-called Purmer developed into a recreation area of the rich patricians and merchants of Amsterdam. Many of today's land were made in the 17th century only by soil drainage. The thus created floor offers a large-scale arable crop area. Nowadays Purmerland is inhabited mainly by urbanites from the Middle Amsterdam, the former smaller country houses were replaced by larger buildings. In the middle of the 18th century, the glory Purmerland - Ilpendam counted 1783 acres of land.
With the proclamation of the Batavian Republic in 1795 had largely lost their rights to high ( Vrij ) heeren van Purmerland s Ilpendam of the family of De Graeff. Purmerland is to the year 1813 the seat of an independent right bank, a bailiff, a Schouts and two prisons, one civil and one criminal, remained. After the founding of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Magnificent rights have been partially restored. In 1840 Purmerland counted 271 inhabitants which were distributed to 43 houses. In 1870, South Polsbroek was sold to Dirk de Jongh. This had significantly narrowed sovereign rights to the year 1914 (?) Holds. Purmerland was belonging to the year 1991, the independent municipality Ilpendam to were then fed in equal parts the communities Waterland and sea country. In the community census of 2009, the municipality had a population of 401 and 200 homes.