Weesp. Weesp is a city, an urban area in the municipality of Amsterdam and a former municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.
It had a population of 20,445 in 2021. It lies on the river Vecht and next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in an area called the Vechtstreek.
On 1 June 2019 the civil service offices of the municipality of Weesp merged with those of the municipality of Amsterdam in preparation of the merger of the two municipalities, which was finalized on 24 March 2022. Until the early Middle Ages the region around Weesp was an uninhabited peat bog.
Weesp was granted city rights in 1355 and celebrated its 650th anniversary as a city in 2005. From the late Middle Ages, the river Vecht was a defensive line for the County of Holland and it remained a military defensive line until the Second World War.
Weesp was strongly fortified, more than its size would justify; for most of its history it had a few thousand inhabitants. The defensive lines consisted of inundation zones, which would be flooded in wartime. Behind them were fortified towns, forts, barracks and other military structures. The most comprehensive was the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a circular inundation zone around Amsterdam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Second World War, new housing was built in the west and an industrial zone with a harbour at the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal was constructed. In th
It had a population of 20,445 in 2021. It lies on the river Vecht and next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in an area called the Vechtstreek.
On 1 June 2019 the civil service offices of the municipality of Weesp merged with those of the municipality of Amsterdam in preparation of the merger of the two municipalities, which was finalized on 24 March 2022. Until the early Middle Ages the region around Weesp was an uninhabited peat bog.
Weesp was granted city rights in 1355 and celebrated its 650th anniversary as a city in 2005. From the late Middle Ages, the river Vecht was a defensive line for the County of Holland and it remained a military defensive line until the Second World War.
Weesp was strongly fortified, more than its size would justify; for most of its history it had a few thousand inhabitants. The defensive lines consisted of inundation zones, which would be flooded in wartime. Behind them were fortified towns, forts, barracks and other military structures. The most comprehensive was the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a circular inundation zone around Amsterdam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Second World War, new housing was built in the west and an industrial zone with a harbour at the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal was constructed. In th
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