Amsterdam-Zuidoost

Amsterdam-Zuidoost
province	North Holland
local community	Amsterdam
Area; - land ; - water	22.11 km 2; 20.08 km 2; 2.03 km 2
Residents	87,854 (Jan 1, 2017)
Coordinates	52 ° 18 ′ N , 4 ° 58 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ N , 4 ° 58 ′ E
Important traffic route
prefix	020
Postcodes	1014-1015, 1043, 1069, 1082, 1099, 1101-1102
	Location of the Zuidoost district in Amsterdam

Zuidoost ( German Southeast ) is a district of the Dutch city of Amsterdam in the province of North Holland . It is 22.11 km² and had 87,854 inhabitants in January 2017. The district is located in the southeast of Amsterdam, but as an exclave does not border on the rest of the municipality of Amsterdam. The Kwakoe Zomer Festival takes place once a year in Zuidoost , the largest multicultural event of its kind in Amsterdam.

history

The heart of Zuidoost is the Bijlmermeer district . Its name goes back to a lake ( Dutch sea ) that was in the village of Bijlmer and was drained in the seventeenth century. The poor conditions of the polded lake for construction measures (high water level, soft soil, susceptibility to flooding) meant that its area was still little built up in the 1960s.

Since Amsterdam reached its limits of growth after the war, the municipality of Weesperkarspel , in which Bijlmer and the Bijlmermeer were located, was incorporated in 1966 in order to use the open area of the former lake as an urban development area. The area of the former municipality then became the Zuidoost district. Since this formed an exclave, it was planned to later also incorporate the intervening municipality of Ouder-Amstel , but this was eventually discarded due to the resistance of the citizens of Ouder-Amstel, whereby Zuidoost remained an exclave.

Even before the incorporation was completed, the soil preparation measures for building projects began in 1963. The new development area should follow Le Corbusier's paradigm of the functional city , according to his study Plan Voisin . Among other things, this provided for the spatial separation of the urban functions of living , working , recreation and traffic (cf. Wohnmaschine ). Of the 18,000 planned residential units, 12,000 were to be built in a honeycomb high-rise complex. The first apartment was occupied in 1968 and the last one was completed within the project in 1975.

Conceptual weaknesses, planning errors and the delayed provision of crucial infrastructure prevented the new building area from functioning from the start and set a downward spiral in motion, which soon earned the area the reputation of the worst residential area in the entire Netherlands. Attempts to reverse the trend only achieved isolated successes.

El Al flight 1862

On October 4, 1992, a Boeing 747-285F crashed into a residential complex in the Bijlmermeer residential area . 39 residents and 4 crew members died. The affected buildings were demolished, whereby the foundations were preserved. Today the Bijlmer Monument stands near them.