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Wieringermeer (population: 12,635) is a municipality in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The municipality covers an area of 309.37 kmē (of which 102.70 kmē water).The municipality of Wieringermeer consists the following towns, villages and townships: Kreileroord, Middenmeer, Slootdorp, Wieringerwerf.
1 History
The Wieringmeerpolder is a polder, newly created land. The creation of this polder started in 1927. Originally the polder would have been created after the completion of the Afsluitdijk, but there was a severe lack of agricultural ground. This meant that the dikes for the polder had to be built in the Zuiderzee, a sea, instead of in the milder lake IJsselmeer that the Zuiderzee would become after the completion of the Afsluitdijk. Therefore the dikes had to be tougher and ready to withstand the sea. The prohibition of the polder was on August 21, 1930.
The new land became useable in 1934. Four villages (Slootdorp ( 1931), Middenmeer ( 1933), Wieringerwerf ( 1936) and Kreileroord ( 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t)) eventually grew up in the polder.
Since July 1July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. Events 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I. 1690 Battle of the Boyne as reck, 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St the Wieringermeer is an independent municipality. The Netherlands were occupied by Nazi Germany and on April 17April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). There are 258 days remaining. Events 1492 Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices. 1521 Martin Luther speaks to the assembl, 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II: a vengeful German command ordered the dike of the Wieringermeer to be blown up: the Wieringmeer was innundatedOn April 17 1945 the German occupying forces innundated the polder Wieringermeer, the Netherlands. Preparations In the end of February or the beginning of March 1945 Dutch workers start to undermine the dike around the polder under German command. The loc. No-one was killed as the polder slowly submerged again, but the high water and a subsequent storm destroyed most of the infrastructure built in the previous decade. Reconstruction followed quickly; by the end of 1945 the polder was declared drained again and rebuilding the roads and bridges, houses and farms, was greatly facilitated by the experience of building them the first time.
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