Rembrandtpark () is an

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. The park is named after the 17th-century painter Rembrandt. The park was completed in 1973 and has a surface area of which includes a

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and playgrounds. In the park, 37 bird species including the common buzzard (''Buteo buteo''), 35 bee species including the orange-horned nomad bee (''

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fulvicornis''), and 6 bat species including the

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(''Myotis dasycneme'') have been observed. The park has been the site of several local festivals.Terrassen Festival verkast naar Rembrandtpark
(in Dutch), ''

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Development

Vogelvlucht Westelijke Tuinsteden vanaf het Vondelpark

In 1929,

Cornelis van Eesteren Cornelis van Eesteren (4 July 1897, Alblasserdam - 21 February 1988, Amsterdam) was a prominent Dutch architect and urban planner. He worked for the Town Planning department of Amsterdam (1929–59) and was the chairman of the CIAM (1930–1947 ...

made a provisional plan for the expansion of Amsterdam, which contained a park between the existing and planned neighbourhoods. In 1935, Van Eesteren made the General Expansion Plan which determined the current size and location of the park based on guidelines of of park area and of recreational area per inhabitant. In the 1960s, the ground was elevated. In 1961, Egbert Mos of the municipality made a design for the park, but this was not realized because of insufficient budget. In 1970, F. G. Breman of the municipality and landscape architect Janneke Willemsen made a design for the park with an area for active recreation containing a

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, a

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, a

, and a rough playground and an area for passive recreation. The construction costed ƒ 15,400,000 and was funded by selling ground in the western area of the park to build nine apartment buildings and two office buildings. In 1973, the park was completed.

Geography

The park is situated in the neighbourhood of

Overtoomse Veld Overtoomse Veld is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is named for the '' Overtoomse Sluis'', which was an old portage point dating from the 14th century on a major cargo route to and from Amsterdam at the junction of two waterschap are ...

Amsterdam Nieuw-West Amsterdam Nieuw-West () is a borough ( Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') comprising the westernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was created in 2010 after a merger of the former boroughs Osdorp, Geuzenveld-Slotermeer and Slotervaa ...

on the eastern border with the neighbourhood of

De Baarsjes De Baarsjes () is a district ( nl, wijk) in Amsterdam-West situated west of the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Named after a former hamlet, urban development started in the 1920s. It contains the neighbourhoods Admiralenbuurt, Chassébuur ...

Amsterdam-West Amsterdam-West () is a borough (Dutch: ''stadsdeel'') of Amsterdam, Netherlands, to the west of the centre of the city. This borough was formed in 2010 through the merging of four former boroughs Oud West, Westerpark, De Baarsjes and Bos en Lomm ...

. The elongated park is crossed from east to west by the streets Jan van Galenstraat, Postjesweg, and Cornelis Lelylaan, which divides the park into four sections.

References

External links

* Amsterdam Nieuw-West Parks in Amsterdam {{NorthHolland-geo-stub