Beemster

Beemster is a polder and a municipality in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland. The municipality has 9,748 inhabitants and has an area of ​​72.08 km². The municipality of Beemster is part of the Amsterdam Transport Region. Within the Beemster are the villages of Middenbeemster, Noordbeemster, Westbeemster and Zuidoostbeemster, as well as the hamlets of Halfweg and Klaterbuurt.

The municipality of Beemster is getting ready for an administrative merger with Purmerend, which become determined on January 9, 2018. The tasks might be merged in three years. Around the yr 800 the vicinity, which now forms the municipality of Beemster, was included with peat. Beemster is derived from Bamestra, the call of a river inside the place. The peat exploitation via guy in mixture with storm tides brought about this river turning into an inland sea in the period 1150 to 1250, a lake that turned into in open connection with the Zuiderzee and through the Where with the Purmer.