{{Infobox settlement | name = Ilpendam | settlement_type = Village | other_name = <!-- if different from name --> | native_name = <!-- if different from name --> | native_name_lang = nl | image_skyline = IlpendamView.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = Ilpendam 1976 vlag.svg | image_shield = Ilpendam wapen.svg | nickname = | motto = <!-- | image_map = LocatieWaterland.png | map_caption = | image_map1 = Map NL - Waterland - Ilpendam.png | map_caption1 = The village of Ilpendam in the municipality of Waterland. --> | pushpin_map = Netherlands#Netherlands North Holland | pushpin_label_position = right | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_map_caption = Location in the Netherlands##Location in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Netherlands | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|North Holland}} | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = Waterland | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_party = | elevation_footnotes = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |title = Postcodetool for 1452AE |language = nl |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis |access-date = 2 May 2022 |archive-date = 21 September 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |url-status = dead }}</ref> | elevation_m = -3.2 | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | area_footnotes = <ref name="stat"/> | area_total_km2 = 2.47 | established_title = | established_date = | population_footnotes = <ref name="stat">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbs.nl/-/media/_excel/2021/48/kwb-2021.xls |title=Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021 |website=Central Bureau of Statistics |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref> | population_total = 1,785 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_demonym = | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 1452<ref name="stat"/> | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = 020 | coordinates = {{coord|52|28|N|4|57|E|region:NL_type:city(1780)|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = }} '''Ilpendam''' is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies about 4 km south of Purmerend. It covers an area of 2.46 km<sup>2</sup> (0.95 sq mi) and had 1,780 inhabitants in 2008. Ilpendam was part of the Free and high Lordship of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam.
==History== The village was first mentioned in 1408 as Ypeldamme, and means "dam in the Ilp river".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/ilpendam |title=Ilpendam - (geografische naam) |website=Etymologiebank |access-date=2 May 2022 |language=nl}}</ref> Ilpendam developed in the 12th century at the mouth of the Ilp as a linear settlement.<ref name="monument">{{cite news|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sten009monu11_01/sten009monu11_01_0090.php |title=Ilpendam |author=Ronald Stenvert & Saskia van Ginkel-Meester |publisher=Waanders |location=Zwolle |year=2006 |language=nl |access-date=2 May 2022}}</ref>
The Dutch Reformed church is a single aisled church built in 1656 to replace the medieval church burnt down in 1640. The tower was built in 1855.<ref name="monument"/>
The man standing highlighted at centre on Rembrandts Night Watch painting is Frans Banning Cocq. He was Mayor of Amsterdam, ''Lord of Purmerland and Ilpendam'' and ''Lord of Ilpenstein castle''.
Ilpendam was a separate municipality until 1991.<ref>{{Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten}}</ref>
Until 1872 there was a castle, called Ilpenstein, of the ''Lordship of Purmerland and Ilpendam''.<ref name="monument"/>
== Notable persons of Ilpendam == * Gerrit de Graeff (IV) van Zuid-Polsbroek (1797–1870), vrijheer van Zuid-Polsbroek, Purmerland and Ilpendam, patrician of Amsterdam * Mona Keijzer (born 1968), politician
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Overzicht noordgevel en geveltoren met ingesnoerde spits - Ilpendam - 20403759 - RCE.jpg|Dutch Reformed church File:Ilpendam dorpsgezicht.jpg|Street view File:(1725-1792) Het huis Ilpenstein of Ilpendam door Aert Schouman naar Willem de Heer.jpeg|Ilpenstein Castle (18th century) File:Dorpsstraat 12, Ilpendam.jpg|Houses in Ilpendam </gallery>
==See also== * Free and high Lordship of Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Ilpendam}}
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Category:Populated places in North Holland Category:Former municipalities of North Holland Category:Lords of Purmerland and Ilpendam Category:Waterland
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