The Spaarne is a river in North Holland , Netherlands . This partially canalized river connects the Ringvaart to a side branch of the North Sea Canal . It runs through Haarlem , Heemstede , and Spaarndam .
12-510: The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities), located on the east side of the Spaarne in downtown Haarlem , Netherlands, was established in 1752 and is the oldest society for the sciences in the country. The society has been housed in its present location, called Hodshon Huis, since 1841. Nearby the society is the Teylers Museum ,
24-461: A closely related museum of natural history founded in 1784. In 2002, the society was awarded the predicate "Royal" when it celebrated 250 years of science studies. The society started as a gentleman's club that met in the Haarlem City Hall to discuss science topics and promote the study of the arts and sciences. They pooled resources to purchase books and specimens for study, which were kept in
36-455: A few buildings by J.B. van Loghem , such as Tuinwijk , an early community living project sharing a garden. In the same block, entering Haarlem, is the old location of the ships architectural bureau De Voogt Naval Architects in the home of Henri de Voogt, known from Feadship . Nearing the next bridge, on the edge of the wood the Haarlemmerhout , villa Welgelegen can be seen, that once had
48-534: A garden all the way to the Spaarne. Once in the center of Haarlem, many historic buildings in the centre of Haarlem, including: Schalkwijk, Haarlem Schalkwijk is the largest borough of Haarlem , Netherlands . It has about 30.000 inhabitants, and covers about 25% of the municipality of Haarlem. Until 1963, Schalkwijk was a part of the municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude . It consisted of two hamlets, North Schalkwijk and South Schalkwijk . The area
60-400: Is now covered by the residential area Schalkwijk that was mostly built in the 1960s. Schalkwijk has a shopping mall, geographically in the center of the borough. It has some 90+ stores, ranging from supermakets to a cinema, multiple hair-dressers/barbers. It is always lively and has recently been rebuilt partially adding retail and residential space. This North Holland location article is
72-614: The IJ remained at Spaarndam to connect the Spaarne to the new canal. The river was deepened for the benefit of industries along its shores. At the juncture of the river and the ringvaart is the Cruquius Museum , a museum that resides in one of the three original pumping stations from 1850. Steam engines were used to pump the water out from the Haarlemmermeer polder. On the Heemstede side of
84-611: The Spaarne. A lock at Spaarndam separates it from the North Sea Canal. According to Sterck-Proot, a historian, the name Spaarne probably comes from Spier , which means reed in old Dutch. The river formerly flowed from the Haarlemmermeer (Haarlem Lake) to the IJ , which used to extend from the Zuiderzee all the way to Velsen . In the 13th century, a dam with locks was constructed at
96-476: The juncture is the old Castle Heemstede . Traveling up the river towards Haarlem, on the Heemstede side the dome of the Hageveld high school and former Catholic seminary can be seen. Continuing under the bridge to Schalkwijk , on that side is windmill "De Hommel", a sawmill that is often open to the public on spring and summer weekends. Across from that on the Heemstede side is rowing club K.R.Z.V. Het Spaarne and
108-571: The mouth of the Spaarne where the village of Spaarndam then formed. After a century of planning, Haarlem's Lake was pumped dry in 3 years from 1850–1853 and made into a polder . The Spaarne became a branch of the Ringvaart , lost much of its flow, and became shallower. The construction of the North Sea Canal (completed in 1876) reduced most of the IJ Bay into polders but a small canalized section of
120-584: The summer months, filled with special plants, located in the Bakkerstraat. The museum fell out of favor after Van Marum's death, and it was dissolved in 1866. The house was built in 1794 by the architect Abraham van der Hart for Catharina Cornelia Hodshon , a wealthy heiress and regentess of the Wijnbergshofje . After she died, the house came into the hands of the Amsterdam banker Adriaan van der Hoop , and it
132-512: The town hall until they purchased a building on the Grote Houtstraat (nr. 51, since unrecognizably rebuilt), where the curator of the collection lived. Under the direction of Martin van Marum , a proper museum was established with zoological specimens located there on display for the public, as a forerunner of the modern Naturalis in Leiden. Van Marum also kept a small garden for public viewing in
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#1732851591971144-552: Was purchased for the society in 1841. The original mission of the society included research as well as education. There are many awards, prizes, and collaborative initiatives that are kept up by the society. Membership is by invitation only, and the historical building is open by appointment only. Today the building is owned by the nl:Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser . 52°22′47″N 4°38′23″E / 52.3796°N 4.6397°E / 52.3796; 4.6397 Spaarne The historic canals of Haarlem's moats are connected to
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