INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AND THE DUTCH SPIRIT OF COMMERCE

• • 60 km ca 6 hours

INTRODUCTION Water is incontrovertibly linked to life in the . On the one hand because we have to continally protect ourselves from it due to the fact that over half of the Netherlands lies below sea level. On the other hand, in economic terms the water has been of considerable benefi t to us over the centuries. It made us tremendous shipbuilders and we found ways of using the water to drive machines, mills and pumping stations. Unsurprisingly, much of our industrial heritage is to be found on river banks, often fully restored, sometimes in the form of a museum, CYCLE JUNCTIONS: sometimes as a place of residence or a workshop. Industrial FOLLOW THE NUMBERS... The route description features heritage is, in fact, everything produced for the purposes of several numbers in green circles. day-to-day work by the industrial revolution, i.e. bridges, slui- These are the so-called ‘cycle junctions’. Cycle from junction to ces/locks and machines as well as factory buildings. And so junction following the numbered on this cycle route you will encounter all these things. It will signs along the roadside in the direction of the arrow. At each take you to the cultural centre of , as well as to junction you will fi nd an the open and bustling coastal area of IJmuiden. Get cycling! information sign with a map. BIKE RENTAL Rent a Bike Haarlem Lange Herenstraat 36 2011 LJ Haarlem T 0900 500 50 06 www.rentabikehaarlem.nl

Step & Ko Vinkenbaan 10 2082 EP Santpoort-Zuid T 06 25 29 21 25

TOURIST INFORMATION VVV/City Marketing Haarlem Verwulft 11, Haarlem T 0900 616 16 00 www.haarlem.nl

VVV Agency IJmuiden Central Library, Dudokplein 16, IJmuiden T +31 (0)20 201 88 00 www.ijmuidenaanzee.nl

Touristic routes Metropolitan Area Industrial Heritage route ROUTE & ATTRACTIONS STARTING POINT OF THE ROUTE: 3 NZH Vervoer Museum Originally this was the museum of the Haarlem CS Noord-Zuid Hollandse Vervoer Maatschappij (North-South Dutch Transport Company), the 1 Centraal Station Haarlem precursor to the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways). Here you can see old trams This station from 1908 is the only and buses, such as the restored Blauwe Tram Dutch station in the style of Art (blue tram) from 1923 and the American GMC Nouveau. The station, which Eaglebus from 1966, which NZH used to carry is over a century old, is tourists around Europe. characterized by its many tile pictures and its various Go back over the Schouwtjes- entrance and exit buildings. brug to cycle junction 84 . It is a popular location for Follow the cycle junction fi lm recordings, e.g. for signs: 86 90 the box offi ce hit Ocean’s in the direction of 78 . Twelve and Paul Verhoeven’s Just before the bridge over Zwartboek (Black Book). the river, cross Oudeweg onto Kick Smitweg. Turn On the side of the station where the into the 5th street on the bus stops are, on the right-hand side, follow left, Rie Mastenbroekstraat. This street ends up at Max Kruisweg to cycle junction 22 on Nieuwe Euweplein (square). Gracht. Then follow the cycle junction signs This is where the former 90 90 85 74 53 . Droste factory is.

2 Cruquius pumping station 4 Droste Haarlem Did you know that Schiphol is situated on Say the name Droste and every Dutch reclaimed land? It’s a built on the person will lick their lips as they tell you bottom of a reclaimed lake. Cruquius pum- about the wonderful chocolate they make. ping station from 1849 is one of the three The Droste factory on the River Spaarne steam-powered pumping stations that were still bears the image of the world-famous used to dry out the area around Schiphol. A nurse who also features on the world-class, industrial listed building in the Droste cocoa tins. The Gothic Revival style, the museum hou- chocolate fragrance has ses an original 19th-century steam since disappeared machine, the largest in the world. from Haarlem, but The water model shows how luckily the factory is the Netherlands would look still there. like without dykes and what a storm surge would cause. Go back into Rie Mas- tenbroekstraat. Follow the cycle junction signs: Take the fi rst left. 52 80 81 84 in the You are now at Lichtfabriek Haar- direction of 35 . As soon as you cross lem (Haarlem Light Leidsevaart using the Schouwtjesbrug Factory). (bridge), turn left onto ‘Leidsevaart’. At number 396 is the NZH Vervoer Museum (transport museum).

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5 Haarlem Light Factory Follow the cycle junction This was once truly a factory for light, or signs to: a place where gas and electricity were 2 3 4 5 produced for the city of Haar- lem. In the 1990s, creative 7 34 9 and 23 . companies established themselves on this site. Follow the River Spaarne over Nowadays it’s a trendy Hooimarkt, Koudenhoorn location where you and Donkere Spaarne. On the can dine in the former right-hand side at Spaarne 16 is meter house and Teylers Museum. dance in the central hall. 7 Teylers Museum The rich banker Pieter Teyler left all his money to the promotion Go back to Ou- of art and science. He thought that deweg and turn right over the there should be a place where people could bridge across the River Spaarne. discover the world for themselves. And so it Follow the cycle junction signs: came to be that the Teylers Museum opened in 1748, the Netherlands’ fi rst museum. In ad- 23 9 34 7 5 6 92 96 dition to the fossils, which are millions of years in direction of 2 . Whilst cycling to 2 you will old, scientifi c instruments and coins, prints cross IJmuiden’s Sluizencomplex (sluice complex). and paintings, the museum’s interior is also worth the effort. 6 Sluizencomplex IJmuiden IJmuiden is the only gateway to Amster- Cycle on up the River Spaarne to the dam’s harbour for large sea-going vessels Melkbrug (bridge). Turn right here. Follow the and cruise boats. Four locks operate here cycle junction signs to 22 . From here follow round the clock. The Zuidersluis from 1876 Kruisweg straight on to the station. is the oldest of the complex and is in fact This is the end of the cycle route. only suitable for smaller boats. There is an information centre at the Noordersluis, where you can get an explanation of how the sluice gates and locks work. Had FACT! enough of cycling? The Fast Flying Ferry The Amsterdam - Haarlem line was opened will take you to Centraal Station in on 20 September 1839 and was the fi rst Dutch Amsterdam in thirty minutes. railway line.

1 SPAARNE 66 3 BRASSERIE EN LOUNGEBAR DENK Spaarne 66 Estate Duin & Kruidberg 2011 CK Haarlem Duin- en Kruidbergerweg 60 T +31 (0)23 551 38 00 2071 LE Santpoort-Noord I www.spaarne66.nl T +31 (0)23 512 18 00 I www.duin-kruidberg.nl 2 THEEHUIS CRUQUIUS Cruquiusdijk 32 4 RESTAURANT IJMOND 2142 ER Cruquius (NH) Seinpostweg 40 T +31 (0)23 528 69 46 1976 BT IJmuiden I www.theehuiscruquius.nl T +31 (0)255 51 35 36 I www.ijmond-restaurant.nl

This route is part of the project ‘Visit Amsterdam, See Holland’ and is fi nanced by: City Region of Amsterdam, Dutch Ministry of MSRP Economic Affairs, Noord-Holland, , , , Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Haarlem, , Lelystad, Ouder-, , , , Councils of the ISW (Intermunicipal Cooperative Body). 1,75

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