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Buikslotermeer
Polder in Amsterdam in North Holland, Netherlands
Buikslotermeer is a neighborhood and a polder of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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The Buikslotermeer is a reclaimed lake, now largely located within the city of Amsterdam-Noord. Nowadays, the name 'Buikslotermeer' is used to refer to the entire Buikslotermeerpolder (approximately inhabitants) of the similarly named neighborhood, located in the south-east of the polder.
History
The lake must have been hectares in size and 3 to 4 meters deep, before it was drained in , together with two other Waterland lakes; the Belmer and Broeker lake. The lakes were probably formed due to the erosion of worn-down peatland (the 'water wolf').
The soil of the polder - no marine clay - turned out to be only suitable as pasture.
The western part of the ring ditch became part of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal (Great North Holland Canal) in A year after, in , the dyke at Durgerdam collapsed and the Waterland and the Buikslotermeer were co