Zwanenburg

Zwanenburg is a metropolis within the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies approximately eleven km west of Amsterdam. Zwanenburg has a population of round 7,670 Zwanenburg takes its name from Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg, the previous headquarters of the Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, a water board that used to have its headquarters in Halfweg, on the opposite side of the canal known these days as the Ringvaart. Up until the 19th century, Zwanenburg become below water. When the pumping station at Halfweg had succeeded in making the land ripe for building, the employees who had settled at Halfweg purchased this cheap land beneath the dike for his or her homes.

The infrastructure linking Halfweg to Haarlem and Amsterdam turned into already pretty right, so Zwanenburg have become a true commuter metropolis. Halfweg changed into additionally the site of a big sugar factory, first opened in 1863, that served as an agency for Zwanenburg residents for greater than a century. For this purpose, the history of Zwanenburg can not be seen one after the other from the records of Halfweg.