AMSTELVEEN

'' is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Until 1964, the municipality of Amstelveen was called 'Nieuwer-Amstel'.

Contents

Trivia

Secondary Education

Population centres

Local government

Twin Towns

References

External links

Trivia

★ Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende started his political career as member of the Amstelveen city council.

★ Amstelveen has a light rail connection with Amsterdam.

★ The COBRA Museum is located in Amstelveen.

★ The headquarters of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is located in Amstelveen

★ there is a large group of English speaking ex-pats living in Amstelveen.

★ The International School Amsterdam is located in Amstelveen.

★ as a result of the vicinity of Schiphol, there are lots of Japanese companies in Amstelveen. This one of the reasons the Nihon Ki-in opened its European Go and Cultural Centre in Amstelveen.

★ Actress, Famke Janssen was born here. Notable for her roles in the James Bond movie, Goldeneye and the X-Men Movie Series.

★ The Thijssepark or in full the Dr Jac. P. Thijssepark was the first heempark in The Netherlands. Designed by landscape architect C.P.Broerse (1902-1995) following the ideas of the great Dutch naturalist and conservationist J.P. Thijsse, it was developed between 1940 and 1972 and is 5 hectares in area. It is just south of the Amsterdamse Bos and is accessible from Amsterdamse Weg. It is one of a network of sixten heemparks or heemgroen in Amstelveen

★ The city was chosen as an unlikely host of a match in the 1999 Cricket World Cup, for which the Netherlands had not even qualified. South Africa played Kenya in the match.

Secondary Education

★ The Hermann Wesselink College: offers Bilingual education, VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum), HAVO and VMBO-T.

★ The Keizer Karel College: offers VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum) and HAVO.

★ The Amstelveen College: offers VWO (Gymnasium and Atheneum), HAVO and VMBO-T.

★ The Panta Rhei: offers VMBO and LWOO.

Population centres

The municipality of Amstelveen consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Amstelveen, Bovenkerk, Nes aan de Amstel, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel (partly).

Local government

The municipal council of Amstelveen consists of 35 seats, which are divided as follows:

★ VVD - 9 seats

★ PvdA - 8 seats

★ GroenLinks - 5 seats

★ Burger Belangen - 5 seats

★ CDA - 4 seats

★ D66 - 2 seats

★ Christen Unie - 1 seat

★ OCA/VSP - 1 seat

Twin Towns

★ Woking in United Kingdom

★ Villa El Salvador in Peru

★ Tempelhof in Germany

★ Óbuda-Békásmegyer in Hungary

References

★ Statistics are taken from the SDU Staatscourant.

External links

★ A map of the municipality Amstelveen

★ http://www.amstelveenweb.com/

★ Official website Amstelveen

★ Part of Amstelveen in the near future