Middenbeemster (municipality of Beemster)
Village founded in 1612 as the main village of the new polder Beemster (1612) at the junction of the Middenweg and the Rijperweg. The Herv was built around the centrally located cattle market. church, the Mansion (polder house, later town hall), a school (disappeared) and a smithy. In the village lived mainly middle-class, renting farmers, a few no...
