't Zand, Schagen

't Zand Village nl File:Exterieur - 't Zand (Zijpe) - 20220751 - RCE.jpg Church in 't Zand Netherlands#Netherlands North Holland right 250 Location in the Netherlands##Location in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands Country Netherlands Province North Holland Municipality Schagen http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool Postcodetool for 1756AA nl Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland Het Waterschapshuis 1 May 2022 21 September 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053543/http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool dead 0.7 14.66 https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/86165NED/table?ts=1762451618860 Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2025 Key figures districts and neighborhoods 2025 Central Bureau of Statistics 6 November 2025 2755 2025 2345 410 auto CET +1 CEST +2 Postal code 1756 Dialing code 0224 52 50 14 N 4 45 17 E region:NL_type:city(2320) inline,title t Zand is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Schagen and lies about 12 km mi south of Den Helder. History The village was first mentioned in 1770 as "eene herberg, het zand genoemt", and is named after an inn which was colloquially called Zand (sand), but whose official name was 't Wapen van Alkmaar.https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/tzand 't Zand - (geografische naam) Etymologiebank 1 May 2022 nl 't Zand developed in the northern part of the Zijpe- and Hazepolder which were poldered between 1596 and 1597. The construction of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal between 1821 and 1824, resulted in a modest growth.https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/sten009monu11_01/sten009monu11_01_0192.php 't Zand Ronald Stenvert & Saskia van Ginkel-Meester Waanders Zwolle 2006 nl 1 May 2022 't Zand developed as a Catholic settlement, because clandestine churches were tolerated in the area.https://www.plaatsengids.nl/t-zand 't Zand Plaatsengids 1 May 2022 nl The Catholic O.L. Vrouwe Visitatie Church was built in 1863 and is a modest design. The church was deemed unstable in 1920, and large buttresses have been built to strengthen the construction. Education In 't Zand there are two primary schools; there are no secondary schools. Zandhope is a small village school with four classrooms catering for ages 4 to 12. St. Jozef (a Catholic school) has about 20 classrooms and caters for ages 4 to 14 years. Transportation 't Zand is the site of one of the five operational vlotbruggen. The current was constructed in 1949 on the Noordhollandsche Kanaal. References Category:Schagen Category:Populated places in North Holland