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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

Field	Value
name	Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
settlement_type	Town
native_name_lang	nl
image_skyline	Ouderkerk aan de Amstel overwiew.jpg
image_caption	Ouderkerk aan de Amstel seen from the Amstel
image_map	LocatieOuder-Amstel.png
image_map1	Map NL - Ouder-Amstel - Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.svg
map_caption1	The town centre (dark green) and the municipal boundaries (light green) of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in the municipality of Ouder-Amstel
coordinates
pushpin_map	Netherlands#Netherlands North Holland
pushpin_label_position	top
pushpin_mapsize	250
pushpin_map_caption	Location in the Netherlands##Location in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Netherlands
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	North Holland
subdivision_type2	Municipality
subdivision_name2	Ouder-Amstel
Amstelveen
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m	-0.9
area_footnotes
area_total_km2	2.21
population_footnotes
population_total	8,185
population_as_of	2021
population_density_km2	auto
timezone	CET
utc_offset	+1
timezone_DST	CEST
utc_offset_DST	+2
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	1191
area_code_type	Dialing code
area_code	020

-- Amstelveen Ouderkerk aan de Amstel () is a town in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is largely a part of the municipality of Ouder-Amstel; it lies about 9 km south of Amsterdam. A small part of the town lies in the municipality of Amstelveen. It is connected to Amsterdam by the river Amstel. There is another village called Ouderkerk in South Holland, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1308 as Ouderkerken, and means "old church". Old was probably added to distinguish from another village, however it is not clear which village. A candidate is Nieuwerkerk which disappeared in the Haarlemmermeer, but it can also refer to Amstelveen. It most likely refers to Amstelveen since Amstelveen used to be called Nieuwer-Amstel.

Ouderkerk developed at the confluence of the Bullewijk into the Amstel river. The castle of the van Amstel family was probably located on across the present church, however it was destroyed in 1204. From the 17th century onwards, estates were built in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel by the Amsterdam merchants.

Main sights

The town is the site of the Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands, as well as a neogothic Roman Catholic church that was designed by Pierre Cuypers in 1865. The Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael created at least two renderings of the cemetery and a church, after his imagination

Jacob van Ruisdael, The Jewish Cemetery, 1653/54 (Dresden)

Gallery

File:Ouderkerk ad Amstel, de Kerkbrug RM31977 foto6 2015-08-28 13.10.jpg|Drawing bridge: de Kerkbrug File:De Zwaan Molen in Oudekerk ad Amstel.jpg|De Zwaan ("The Swan") windmill File:Ouderkerk ad Amstel, zicht op de Ronde Hoep foto2 2015-08-28 13.26.jpg|View to de Ronde Hoep File:Ouderkerk.jpg|Entering the town of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel File:Gemeentehuis van Ouder-Amstel.jpg|Ouder-Amstel Town Hall in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

Jacob van Ruisdael, ''The Jewish Cemetery'' (Detroit Institute of Arts)

References

(24 July 2019). "Postcodetool for 1191AA". Het Waterschapshuis.
"Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021".
"Ouderkerk aan de Amstel - (geografische naam)".
Ronald Stenvert & Saskia van Ginkel-Meester. (2006). "Ouderkerk aan de Amstel". Waanders.
Alvarez Vega, L.. (1974). "Het Beth Haim van Ouderkerk: beelden van een Portugees-Joodse begraafplaats". Van Gorcum.
http://www.kerkenouderkerk.nl/web/node/65 (Dutch)
Walford, E. John. (1991). "Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape". Yale University Press.

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