# Holysloot

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Village in North Holland, Netherlands

Holysloot Village Holysloot aan het Holysloter Die Holysloot in the municipality of Amsterdam. Coordinates: 52°25′N 5°2′E / 52.417°N 5.033°E / 52.417; 5.033 Country Netherlands Province North Holland Municipality Amsterdam Time zone UTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

**Holysloot** is a village in the [Dutch](/source/Netherlands) province of [North Holland](/source/North_Holland). It is a part of the municipality of [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam_(municipality)), 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".[1] Holysloot is a part of the *deelgemeente* (sub-municipality) [Amsterdam-Noord](/source/Amsterdam-Noord). The village has about 160 inhabitants.[2]

## History

Holysloot was first mentioned in the thirteenth century when [Floris V, Count of Holland](/source/Floris_V%2C_Count_of_Holland) granted privileges to the hamlet.[3] 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.[4] The design of the houses in Holysloot are viewed to have inspired farmhouses constructed by the Dutch settlers in [New Amsterdam](/source/New_Amsterdam).[5]

Holysloot was a separate municipality between 1 May 1817 and 1 January 1818, when it was merged with [Ransdorp](/source/Ransdorp).[6] Due to a flood in 1916 and the municipality being unable to afford recovery plans, Holysloot as well as the nearby [Zunderdorp](/source/Zunderdorp) and Schellingwoude, requested to be annexed by the city of Amsterdam. This integration was completed by 1921.[7]

## 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.[3]

Streetscape in Holysloot

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Vrije geluiden op NPO Klassiek - Beluister De weg naar Holysloot"](https://www.npoklassiek.nl/podcasts/vrije-geluiden-op-4/103661/de-weg-naar-holysloot). *NPO Klassiek* (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 April 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-CBS_2-0)** Statistics Netherlands (CBS), *Kerncijfers postcodegebieden 2004* [\[1\]](http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/nederland-regionaal/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/publicaties/kerncijfers-postcodegebieden-2004.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060827123902/http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/nederland-regionaal/nederland-regionaal/publicaties/publicaties/kerncijfers-postcodegebieden-2004.htm) 27 August 2006 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-nl_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-nl_3-1) ["Geschiedenis dorpskerkhoven"](https://www.denieuwenoorder.nl/geschiedenis-dorpskerkhoven/) (in Dutch). De Nieuwe Noorder. Retrieved 21 April 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Blackburn, Roderic (1988). *Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776*. SUNY Press. p. 95. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780939072064](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780939072064).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Cohen, David (1993). *The Dutch-American Farm*. NYU Press. p. 52. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780814715000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780814715000).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ["KNAW > Publicaties > Detailpagina"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070220041404/http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061). Archived from [the original](http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr%3D20061061) on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["GAMEON'2015, December 2-4 , 2015, University of Amsterdam (UvA),"](https://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/3163). *Eurosis* (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 April 2025.

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