Velsen

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[Velsen] is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal.

On the North side of the North Sea Canal, in Velsen-Noord, there is a major steel plant, Corus Strip Products IJmuiden, formerly known as Koninklijke Hoogovens. The headquarter of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij is located in IJmuiden.

The Kennemerstrand beach on the south side of the canal is at the end of the Kennemerboulevard, which runs south of the Seaport Marina.

To the south is the beach of Bloemendaal aan Zee. In between is a nude beach.

Contents

1 Population centres
2 Transportation
3 Local government
4 History
5 References
6 External links

Population centres

The municipality of Velsen consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:

on the north of the North Sea Canal:
*Velsen-Noord, with Corus on the west and a residential quarter on the east
on the south of the North Sea Canal:
*Velsen-Zuid, Driehuis, IJmuiden, Santpoort-Noord, Santpoort-Zuid and Velserbroek, and the parts Oosterbroek and Buitenhuizen of the recreation area Spaarnwoude.

Transportation

In Velsen, there are the following connections across the North Sea Canal:

A railroad tunnel between train stations Driehuis and Beverwijk.
Road tunnels, from east to west:
*Wijker Tunnel
*Velser Tunnel next to the railroad tunnel
A ferry [link].

Also there is the Fast Flying Ferry to Amsterdam [link]. There used to be a railway link between IJmuiden and Amsterdam, the IJmondlijn until 1999, when it was closed.

Local government

The municipal council of Velsen consists of 33 seats, which are divided as follows:

Velsen Lokaal - 14 seats
CDA - 5 seats
PvdA - 5 seats
VVD - 5 seats
GroenLinks - 2 seats
ChristenUnie - 1 seat
D66 - 1 seat

History

The ruins of a Roman naval base at Velsen are believed to be ancient Flevum, which is listed as Phleoum, Romanized to Phleum, in Ptolemy (2.10).

References

Statistics are taken from the [SDU Staatscourant]

External links

[Official website], incl. [quarters]
[Detailed map of Velsen, excluding Santpoort-Noord, Santpoort-Zuid and Velserbroek]
[Map of Spaarnwoude]
[Many photos of IJmuiden, includes a text page in English] (Plattegronden.nl)
[Flevum] (Lendering article in livius.org)

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