Holysloot
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Holysloot is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Amsterdam, and lies about 9 km northeast of the city centre. The name Holysloot probably derives from an expression for a "low-lying area at a ditch".{{Cite web|url=https://www.npoklassiek.nl/podcasts/vrije-geluiden-op-4/103661/de-weg-naar-holysloot|title=Vrije geluiden op NPO Klassiek - Beluister De weg naar Holysloot |language=Dutch |website=NPO Klassiek|accessdate=21 April 2025}} Holysloot is a part of the deelgemeente (sub-municipality) Amsterdam-Noord. The village has about 160 inhabitants.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Kerncijfers postcodegebieden 2004 [http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/nederland-regionaal/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/publicaties/kerncijfers-postcodegebieden-2004.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827123902/http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/nederland-regionaal/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/publicaties/kerncijfers-postcodegebieden-2004.htm |date=27 August 2006 |accessdate=2025-04-21}}
History
Holysloot was first mentioned in the thirteenth century when Floris V, Count of Holland granted privileges to the hamlet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.denieuwenoorder.nl/geschiedenis-dorpskerkhoven/|title=Geschiedenis dorpskerkhoven |language=Dutch |publisher=De Nieuwe Noorder|accessdate=21 April 2025}} The hamlet has only one street running through it and was opined in 1988 to have no more houses than it did three centuries prior, despite being within visual distance of Amsterdam.{{cite book |page=95 |title=Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776 |first=Roderic |last=Blackburn |publisher=SUNY Press |year=1988 |isbn=9780939072064}} The design of the houses in Holysloot are viewed to have inspired farmhouses constructed by the Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam.{{cite book |page=52 |title=The Dutch-American Farm |first=David |last=Cohen |publisher=NYU Press |year=1993 |isbn=9780814715000}}
Holysloot was a separate municipality between 1 May 1817 and 1 January 1818, when it was merged with Ransdorp.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. {{cite web|url=http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr%3D20061061 |title=KNAW > Publicaties > Detailpagina |access-date=3 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070220041404/http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061 |archive-date=20 February 2007 }} Due to a flood in 1916 and the municipality being unable to afford recovery plans, Holysloot as well as the nearby Zunderdorp and Schellingwoude, requested to be annexed by the city of Amsterdam. This integration was completed by 1921.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3163|title=GAMEON'2015, December 2-4 , 2015, University of Amsterdam (UvA),|website=Eurosis |language=Dutch |accessdate=21 April 2025}}
Church
By 1342, Holysloot had its own chapel with services being held by the pastor of Ransdorp. By 1520, it had been granted its own status as an independent parish. The church has the smallest graveyard in North Holland at 150 square metres. Until 1841, the burials occurred within the boundary walls of the church. When the church was expanded in 1846, the existing gravesites were maintained.
