Flevopark

The Flevopark is positioned in Amsterdam-Oost and paperwork the jap boundary of the Indische Buurt. The park is positioned inside the eastern a part of the Overamstelpolder and the territory belonged to the municipality of Diemen till 1896. This park took concrete shape from 1908. The naturalist Jac. P. Thijsse dedicated himself to a park among the Jewish cemetery and the Nieuwe Diep.

In 1914 the expropriation procedure turned into started out and from 1921 money have become to be had to make the land within the park suitable for the park to be built. The construction of the park commenced in 1928. At the park is the Flevoparkbad. The park were given its name in 1943, in 1958 the road that runs alongside it became referred to as Flevoweg. The name is derived from Lake Flevo, from which the Zuiderzee, now IJsselmeer, originated. On the west facet one enters the park through an antique front gate, firstly known as the Hekkepoort. This dates from 1770 and changed into on the time at the town border on the Muiderpoort. The gate stood in the manner as the city grew. This has been eliminated and saved inside the Tropenmuseum.