Petten

Coordinates: 52°46′N 4°40′E / 52.767°N 4.667°E / 52.767; 4.667
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Petten
Village
Pub in Petten
Pub in Petten
Postal code
1755[1]
Dialing code0226

Petten is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Schagen, and lies about 15 km northwest of Alkmaar, on the North Sea. The population is ca. 1900.

Petten's economy is based on agriculture (bulb cultivation), and tourism. A particular type sand can be found on the beach of Petten, of sanded quartz with granite. Since 1997 a plan has been developed for a marina with 600 places; called Marina Petten.

Somewhat to the south of Petten, the

dike had to be built, the Hondsbossche [nl] and Pettemer zeewering
.

History

Petten could have been founded in 739. The name refers to the three

wells (Dutch: putten) which are located there. There was already a mention of a sand dike in 1388 between Petten and 't Oghe (Callantsoog). In the St. Elizabeth's flood (1421), Petten was entirely washed away, and the dunes were damaged. A sleeper dike was built behind the dunes in 1432 and from 1506 active coastal defense took place, with pile heads of beams from Norway and Sweden and stone from Vilvoorde, Belgium. Even so, more than 100 houses were washed away in 1625, plus the church of Petten. The construction of the Hondsbossche zeewering
began in 1793.

Petten belonged to the nobility of Petten en Nolmerban, and then became a municipality. In 1929, the municipality of Petten was incorporated into the municipality of

Energy research Centre of the Netherlands
(ECN).

In December 1962 (according to some accounts 1963), the Fluxus artist Wim T. Schippers emptied a bottle of Green Spot lemonade in the sea at Petten ("Manifestatie Aan Het Strand Te Petten").

On 11 December 2004, an approximately three-year-old

formalin
solution.

Gallery

  • Beach at Petten, from the Pettemer zeewering.
    Beach at Petten, from the Pettemer zeewering.
  • Street view
    Street view
  • Protests against dumping radioactive waste in the sea
    Protests against dumping radioactive waste in the sea
  • Petten nuclear reactor
    Petten nuclear reactor

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Postcodetool for 1755KK". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

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