Zaan

The Zaan is a ancient water direction of 13.5 kilometers within the municipality of Zaanstad in North Holland. The watercourse begins from the Tapsloot north of Zaanstad and ends in the North Sea Canal. For the construction of the polder and the North Sea Canal, the Zaan ran from Starnmeer to the IJ.

Along the banks of the Zaan, hamlets which includes Oostknollendam, Westknollendam, Molletjesveer, Wormer, Wormerveer, Zaandijk, Koog aan de Zaan and Haaldersbroek, 't Kalf, Oostzaandam and Westzaandam have been to begin with created. Strictly talking, the Zaan is the watercourse obtained with the aid of embankment among the 'Knollendam' at the extent of East and West Knollendam in the north and the 'Zaandam' in modern day Zaandam in the south. By opening and ultimate those two dams, it changed into viable to alter the water stage inside the Zaan all through north and southwest storms. By manner of locks on both sides of the Zaandijk, because the Oostknollendammer lock and the Poelsluis.