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Middenbeemster

Middenbeemster is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Middenbeemster
Middenbeemster · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Middenbeemster is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the former municipality of Beemster, and lies about 6 km northwest of Purmerend. Since 2022 it has been part of the municipality of Purmerend.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Middenbeemster

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Fort benoorden Purmerend

    Fort North of Purmerend is a fort in the Netherlands that is part of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It lies in the Beemster polder, near the city of Purmerend.

    2.9 km · fort in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Melkwegbrug, Purmerend

    The Milky Way Bridge, or Melkwegbrug, is a pedestrian/cycling bridge in Purmerend, Netherlands. It was designed by NEXT Architects and opened in 2006.

    4.8 km · bridge in Purmerend, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grote Kerk, De Rijp

    The Grote Kerk is a Protestant church in De Rijp, Netherlands, located near the Town Hall. The church is known for its 17th-century stained-glass windows.

    4.9 km · Protestant church in De Rijp, North Holland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Museum Betje Wolff

    Museum Betje Wolff is a history and decorative arts museum in Beemster, North Holland, in the Netherlands. The museum, founded in 1950, is located in a former Dutch Reformed Church.

    500 m · museum in Middenbeemster, the Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Middenbeemster

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 29 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 74 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 126 km
Stations
Purmerend Weidevenne railway station, 6 km · Purmerend railway station, 5.5 km · Purmerend Overwhere railway station, 5.2 km
  • Rotterdam → Middenbeemster
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €10–14
  • Eindhoven → Middenbeemster
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €15–21
  • Groningen → Middenbeemster
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Middenbeemster

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Middenbeemster. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSeveral tour companies also offer half-day trips to Zaanse Schans, with transportation to/from Amsterdam included.

From Wikivoyage: Zaanse Schans, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    477 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    636 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    675 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    737 km

If you know how people move in Middenbeemster – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Middenbeemster

Middenbeemster is 19 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.