Zaanstad
Zaanstad ( listen? / I ) is a municipality in the province of North Holland (Netherlands). The municipality of Zaanstad in 1974 ( German often incorrectly Saardam ) formed by the Association of Municipalities of Zaandam, Krommenie, Assendelft, enclosed land aan de Zaan, Westzaan, Wormerveer and Zaandijk. The municipality is located 6 kilometers north- west of Amsterdam on the river Zaan near the North Sea Canal. It has an area of 83 square kilometers, with 149 561 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).
History and Economics
Dating from around 1150 Frisian settlements are occupied.
The industrial tradition, attest to the numerous industrial monuments on the Zaan, ranges in the heyday of the nearby Amsterdam back as the capital of world trade in the 17th century. In 1630, were already on the Zaan 53 windmills in operation, the stored commodities in Amsterdam, including rafts down the Rhine -driven logs, industrially processed. Therefore, the region is considered the first industrial area in Europe. The number of windmills grew up in the episode to around 1000th
Zaandam was 65 yards also an important shipbuilding center.
1697 and 1698 visited the Russian Tsar Peter I on one of his incognito trips to the Great Embassy Zaandam in the region " Zaan " to observe the marine industry. According to legend, the Zaandamer were not very hospitable, so the Tsar traveled further in another Dutch village, there to finish his studies. Since 1718, however, he officially visited Zaandam again, this does not seem very credible. The house of Gerrit Kist, in which lived the Czar was purchased in the early 19th century by the Dutch King William I and his Russian-born daughter, who later became Queen Anna Pavlovna given. The visit of the Tsar in Zaandam was later edited several times in the art, such as in a painting by Gustave Wappers and in the opera "Il borgomastro di Saardam " (1827 ) by Gaetano Donizetti and " Zar und Zimmermann " (1837 ) by Albert Lortzingstraße.
Zaandam received city rights in 1811. Since the end of the 19th century, the region is a center of the food industry (including processing of cocoa and mustard ) and the linoleum industry. Ahold is an international retailing group. The first Dutch linoleum factory stood here from 1899 to 1903, another factory is still in operation as Forbo Krommenie.
Attractions
- Zaanse Schans and Zaans Museum ( open air museum about the village life in the 19th century and the use of wind power ), an anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH ) numerous industrial monuments from four centuries
- Windmill Museum ( Museumlaan in enclosed land aan de Zaan )
Twinning
- District of Neukölln (Berlin)
- Zwickau ( Saxony)
Personalities
- Cornelius Krommeny († 1599), court painter in Güstrow
- Pieter Lodewijk Muller (1842-1904), Dutch, German-born historian
- Willibrord Verkade (1868-1946), Benedictine monk, painter, member of Beuronese Art School
- Bouk Schell Inger Reinhoudt (1919-2010), cyclist
- Marcus Bakker (1923-2009), politician
- Piet Kee (* 1927), organist and composer
- Pepinghege Irene (* 1941), German canoeist
- Cees Stam (* 1945 in polder aan de Zaan ), Cyclists
- Rob Stolk (1946-2001), founder of the Provo movement
- Johnny Rep (born Nicolas Rep) (* 1951 in Zaandam ) is a former Dutch football player
- Eshuys Margriet ( born 1952 ), pop singer
- Kathinka (* 1959), a musician (flute), known performer of many works by Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Ronald Koeman ( born 1963 ), former football player and current coach
- Eva Simons ( born 1985 ), singer
- Yoeri Havik (* 1991 in Zaandam ), Cyclists
- Stefano denswil (* 1993), football player
- Bilal Başacıkoğlu (* 1995), football player