Zaandijk

Zaandijk is a village and former municipality in the province of North Holland . In 1974 the town was incorporated Zaandijk in the municipality of Zaanstad . Zaandijk consists of Oud Zaandijk (3,032 inhabitants) and the younger and larger Rooswijk (5,790 inhabitants), separated by the railway and the Provincialeweg (N203) . It is the youngest village and also one of the smallest villages in the municipality of Zaanstad.

Zaandijk has all villages in the commune probably the most features of ancient construction Zaandam. This is especially the Zaan Bank to see. The mill The Pale Death is an important early industrial monument in Zaandijk.

Zaandijk is best known for the Zaanse Schans, which is directly opposite Zaandijk across the Zaan is. The Zaanse Schans is the biggest tourist attraction in Zaandam and is admittedly in Zaandam, but it is much closer than Zaandijk at the center of Zaandam. The Zaanse Schans is also Zaans Museum . The nearest railway stationKoog-Zaandijk but it is also easily accessible from Amsterdam Central Station by bus 391.

Contents

 * 1 History
 * 2 Sights
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 Born in Zaandijk
 * 5 See also
 * 6 External link

History
"In 'tjaer our Lord duysent four hundred and four negentigh, the twentieth dagh in September" was Heyndrick Pietersz, nicknamed Old Hein, license to build a house on the low dike along the Zaan. The Lagedijk still exists as street in Zaandijk.

Over time there were more houses and houses built, it was a hamlet, hamlet and village in the long run. Thus arose Zaandijk, one of the few municipalities whose foundation is accurately known to remain in the day.

The name Zaandijk not originated in 1494, but only got about 120 years later in vogue.

It is known that Heyndrick Pietersz had five sons, who are close to their father's house settled on the dike. Over one hundred years the hamlet was therefore called first "D'Five Brothers". The first centuries were the residents of the village do not have a government. D'Five Brothers, later Zaandijk (it also has "Zantdijc 'and' Saandijk 'called), was part of the Banne of Westzaan, a jurisdiction that stretched west from the Zaandam, Zaandam to West Knollendam . This Banne was formally until 1811 controlled from Westzaan.

In 1570 the village consisted of 19 houses in 1572, during the Eighty Years' War , were destroyed by the Spaniards. After the return of the displaced residents Zaandijk grew steadily.

Sights

 * The Zaanse Schans, just outside the village on the Zaan.
 * The Gortershoek, a protected village : the piece in Oud Zaandijk near the Zaan with many original old wooden houses.
 * Korenmolen The Pale Death, the oldest standing mill in Netherlands .
 * The Weefhuis of 1650 (now a gallery, the Weefhuispad the Lagedijk), and the sculpture before.
 * The Honig Breethuis at number 80 is a part of the collection of the Museum Zaans see. It was built around 1710 by Cornelis Jacobsz. Honig, owner of the witpapiermolen "The Gilded Bijkorf." Behind the grand entrance is a hidden interior with painted wall hangings, a decorated garden room and cupboards full of crockery.
 * The old town hall in the Zaandijk Lagedijk 106, with one of the best-preserved interiors from the Netherlands.
 * The old wooden houses with workers between the small ditches on the garden and the Reverend Hazepad, partly by residents themselves restored after resisting municipal demolition plans in the 70s.
 * The Zaan Dijker Sluisje with stunning views over the Zaan and the Zaanse Schans (corner Lagedijk / Hazepad).
 * Zaandijk has dozens of national monuments .

Trivia

 * Residents of Zaandijk, once as "stingy" by the rest of the Zaankanters, were also known as "currants Kakkers. Another explanation is that residents of the Lagedijk - unlike the rest of Zaandijk - often well-off and were left standing on them before.
 * The largest concentration of typical green Zaandam old wooden houses can be found in Zaandijk in the Gortershoek (at Lagedijk the Zaan).
 * From Zaandam Dijkers is said to be "living between life and death," because of the polder "Life" (1633-1904) and The Pale Death on the former municipal boundaries.
 * Zaanstad The town hall stood until 2011 in Zaandijk (Rooswijk), in the geographical heart of the city. (New Zaandam)
 * The core of the Zaanse department of the Social Democratic Union (SDB, founded in 1881) of Ferdinand Domela, early branch of the socialist movement in the Netherlands, was in Zaandijk and the adjacent Wormer . This was possibly the beginning of what became the Red Zaanstreek has become known.
 * Zaandijk is one of the few streets in the Netherlands to the German economist, philosopher and founder of communism, Karl Marx (1818-1883) was called the Karl Marx Street. In the Netherlands there are only three other streets with the same name (in Utrecht, Rotterdam and Alkmaar), which is the difficult relationship between the Dutch government and local government on one hand, and the socialist movement indicates on the other hand, Marx was indeed half -Dutch and has long lived in the Netherlands, but was rarely mentioned.
 * Typical ' Zaan Dijk 'this statement, made ​​at the municipal amalgamation of 1974: "Zendaik moth Zendaik blaive" The sentence came from a song that was sung already in the twenties when Zaandam undertook an earlier attempt to annex Zaandijk.
 * A movie theater that stood between 1928 and 1969 in Zaandijk (the "Center Theater Zaandijk" on the spot where D'Five Brothers restaurant is located) was the owner Siem Harpoons called "the cinema of Granules', and from whom the film went was therefore said: "That is a Oentje peck."
 * There was a large pool in Zaandijk that was used by the whole Zaandam, which was established in 1937 and still a European record ( Jopie Waalberg, 200m breaststroke women).

Born in Zaandijk

 * Paul Leguit (1856-1937), the first socialist in Zaandam council.
 * Ko Fish (1858-1924), founder of the Royal Dutch Salt Industry, one of the predecessors of the current Akzo Nobel .
 * Piet Zwart (1885-1977), photographer, typographer and industrial designer, known for his designs for the Zaanse kitchen manufacturer Bruynzeel .
 * Jaap Bold (1893-1960), painter.
 * CW Dubbink (1914-2014), President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands
 * Albert Jan Rozeman (1914-1944), member of the resistance.
 * Henk Groot (1938) and older brother Cees Groot (1932-1988), including both been professional player at Ajax .
 * Rianna Galiart (1985), a pole vaulter.
 * Debby Stam (1984), international volleyball

External link

 * Look at Zaandijk