• Thumbnail for Halfweg
    Halfweg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑl(ə)fʋɛx]) is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. Previously a part of the municipality of Haarlemmerliede...
    6 KB (332 words) - 10:40, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haarlemmermeer
    the province of North Holland. Haarlemmermeer is a polder, consisting of land reclaimed from water. The name Haarlemmermeer means 'Haarlem's lake', referring...
    28 KB (2,711 words) - 12:48, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Halfweg sugar factory
    the Haarlemmermeer polder, and the wide part of the Ringvaart that leads to the sluices and the former Zijkanaal F (of the North Sea Canal). Halfweg village...
    47 KB (4,234 words) - 00:43, 9 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Zwanenburg
    Zwanenburg (category Haarlemmermeer)
    linking Halfweg to Haarlem and Amsterdam was already quite good, so Zwanenburg became a true commuter town. Halfweg was also the site of the Halfweg sugar...
    5 KB (262 words) - 13:57, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude
    Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude (category Haarlemmermeer)
    the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The municipality was bordered by Zaanstad to the north, Amsterdam to the east, Haarlemmermeer to the south, Haarlem...
    8 KB (388 words) - 13:55, 7 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Railway accident near Halfweg (1972)
    At the Railway accident near Halfweg on 22 November 1972, the locomotive of a work train derailed near Halfweg in North Holland. On 22 November 1972 derailed...
    1 KB (166 words) - 14:21, 12 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Penningsveer
    Penningsveer (category Haarlemmermeer)
    Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and lies about 3 km (1.9 mi) east of Haarlem. The town is named after...
    3 KB (89 words) - 16:34, 1 January 2019
  • Tom Gehrels (category People from Haarlemmermeer)
    Astronomer at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Gehrels was born at Haarlemmermeer, the Netherlands on February 21, 1925. He was born in bible-belt Netherlands...
    11 KB (1,115 words) - 13:04, 18 May 2023
  • (1728) was the first of its kind. He was an advocate of pumping out the Haarlemmermeer (Haarlem lake), which was done a century after his death. He became...
    7 KB (763 words) - 06:43, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for A9 motorway (Netherlands)
    Interchange Raasdorp A 5 Haarlem 42 26 — Interchange Rottepolderplein / Halfweg / Haarlem-Zuid A 200 / N 205 Velsen 47 29 — Interchange Velsen A 22 north...
    6 KB (339 words) - 07:04, 27 January 2021