Edam-Volendam

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Edam-Volendam municipality
Flag of the municipality of Edam-Volendam
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Edam-Volendam
coat of arms
province North Holland North Holland
mayor Lieke Sievers ( independent )
Seat of the municipality Volendam
Area
 - land
 - water 		80  km 2
54.36 km 2
25.64 km 2
CBS code 0385
Residents 36,073 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 451 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 52 ° 30 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′  N , 5 ° 4 ′  E
Important traffic route A7 E22 N244 N247 N517
prefix 0299
Postcodes 1131-1132, 1135, 1471-1477, 1481
Website Homepage of Edam-Volendam
Map - NL - Municipality code 0385 (2016) .PNG
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Edam-Volendam ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland . Audio file / audio sample

The municipality consists of the old town of Edam and the tourist village of Volendam , which is three kilometers south of Edam, and, since January 1, 2016, when Zeevang was incorporated, of Axwijk, Beets, Etersheim, Hobrede, Kwadijk, Middelie, Oosthuizen, Schardam , Lost Einde and Warder.

Location and economy

The municipality is located about 20 kilometers north of Amsterdam on the coast of the Markermeer . Hoorn is 12 km further north. Edam has a centuries-old tradition as a cheese market. The spherical Edam cheese ( Dutch Edammer ) comes here. There is also a machine factory in Edam, and there is a lot of livestock farming and tourism in the area. Volendam, the former fishing village with its traditional costumes, lives almost entirely from the German, American, Japanese and other Dutch visitors. But there are still some fish processing factories.

History of Edam

As early as 1230 there was talk of trade at the dam in the Ee or Ye, the E-dam . Ship goods have to be unloaded and reloaded again at a dam anyway. In 1357, the Count of Holland Wilhelm V of Bavaria granted Edam the right to moor a harbor, hold three annual fairs and other privileges . With that Edam became a city. Edam's heyday was around the 16th and 17th centuries because of the cheese and fish trade and the shipyards that existed at that time. In gratitude for the help to Alkmaar during the siege in 1573 by the Spaniards in the Eighty Years' War , William of Orange granted the city the horizontal right . After 1700, trade declined. Edam remained a small town.

Performance of the “traditional cheese market” in Edam
Port in Volendam

History of Volendam

Volendam, the full dam , was built in a silted-up body of water as the outer port of Edam. Until about 1920 it was simply a fishing village, whose inhabitants, unlike those of the neighboring communities, remained Roman Catholic during the Reformation . It is said that whaling , which the Dutch are said to have learned from the Basques of northern Spain, brought some people and influences from the Basque Country to Volendam and Marken in the 16th century . At the beginning of the 20th century, painters and other tourists came and discovered the original, strange and remote Volendam.

When the final dike was completed in 1932 and the Zuidersee was separated from the Wadden Sea , the North Sea fishery in Volendams ceased. But tourism in particular created enough new jobs. Volendam has had many good singers for a long time , including a. the groups 3JS , BZN and The Cats , Nick & Simon and Jan Smit ; the village has also been delivering for decades and a. at Ajax Amsterdam many tech-savvy professional soccer player. There is the FC Volendam football club there .

On New Year's Eve 2000/2001, Volendam was hit by a fire disaster. Young people ran with fireworks through one of the many cafes on the dike, causing the Christmas decorations to catch fire. The whole cafe went up in flames. Fourteen mostly young visitors to the pub were killed. Many others were severely mutilated. The disaster led nationwide to a Christmas tree ban in pubs and discos and other stricter fire protection regulations .

politics

Distribution of seats in the municipal council

Local elections 2015
 %
30th
20th
10
0
21.2
16.2
16.1
14.2
13.0
9.7
5.4
3.5
0.6
LK
V80
E.g.
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-3.8
-2.8
-1.9
+14.2
-1.6
-3.1
-3.2
+3.5
-1.4
LK
V80
E.g.

The local elections on March 21, 2018 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Political party Seats
2006 2010 2014 2015
Lijst Kras - 1 6th 6th
Volendam '80 6th 6th 4th 4th
CDA 4th 3 4th 4th
Zeevang's concern - - - 4th
VVD 2 5 3 3
GroenLinks 1 2 2 3
PvdA 3 4th 2 1
D66 - - - 0
VOLUME - - 0 0
Right door Zee 4th 0 - -
Community concerns 1 - - -
total 21st 21st 21st 25th
  1. ↑ Due to the merger of the municipalities of Zeevang and Edam-Volendam on January 1, 2016, the municipal council elections took place in 2015.

Political structure

The community is divided into the following districts:

No. place Residents
00 Edam 7,080
01 Purmer 110
02 Volendam 22,215
03 Flower beds 550
04 Oosthuizen 3,300
05 Was the 805
06 Middelie 705
07 Kwadijk 765
08 Shardam 105
09 Hobrede 150
local community 35,800
  1. ↑ District number
  2. ↑ (as of January 1, 2017)

Sons and daughters of the church

Attractions

Edam has a picturesque inner city with houses and small canals from the 17th and 18th centuries. Important buildings are the Gothic Nikolaikirche (15th to 17th centuries, with a carillon), the tourist office (VVV) in the former town hall (built in 1727), the "play tower", a former church tower (16th century), the Proveniershuis (1555 ) and the City Museum (1655). Volendam has its traditional costumes, its wooden houses, its fair, as well as shops and restaurants that attract tourists. Every Wednesday between July and August the traditional cheese market for tourists takes place in Edam. Between 10:30 am and 12:30 pm, the cheese farmers bring their cheese to the market with the help of small boats, which is then sold. The same thing happens in Alkmaar and Hoorn, for example.

See also

Web links

Commons : Edam-Volendam  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Edam in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Result of the local elections: 2014 2015 , accessed on May 1, 2018 (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on May 1, 2018 (Dutch)
  4. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on May 1, 2018 (Dutch)
  5. ↑ Alkmaar cheese market