Huizen

Huizen is a municipality and a village in the Netherlands, inside the province of North Holland. The call "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been connected to the notion that the primary stone houses in the region appeared here. Huizen is part of the metropolitan location of Amsterdam. Huizen firstly became an agricultural village, about 2 kilometres from the sea. During wintertime the farmers went fishing. Later on it developed to coastal village, with a thriving fishing industry, which changed into inspired by means of constructing the harbor approximately 1850.

After the damming of the Zuider Zee via the Afsluitdijk in 1932, the old sea changed into degraded to a trifling freshwater lake, and within your means sports shifted toward industry and commerce. In the 1960s the metropolis became certain to construct substantially massive residential regions, to overcome the housing scarcity within the area. From then on, the village took on an inflow of people and grew rapidly.