Light, air and space in the Reconstruction of Velsen-North – realization: 1948-49. This is the section to the east of Wijkerstraatweg. We are looking from the south, via the public green between Ladderbeekstraat and Schoonoortstraat, towards the road Meerweidenplantsoen, which runs perpendicularly. Such spacious open greens between long linear developments are quite characteristic of Reconstruction districts. Both in this region, the IJmond area, and elsewhere it is a frequent feature. See, for example, the urban renewal districts of the same period around the Kuenenplein in Beverwijk. Photograph dated 1950. Collection: Velsen Gemeentearchief [Municipal Archives]
Extant German emplacements
Sea front
German emplacements no longer present
Anti-tank wall no longer present
Anti-tank wall still present
Anti-tank ditch still present
Demolition zone
Land front no longer present
Land front still visible
Special object
Levee/dike in 1945
Barbed wire fence
Dunes
Evacuation zone
Coastline in 1945
In het noordoosten liggen Beverwijk en Velsen-Noord buiten het landfront van de Festung IJmuiden. Vooral Velsen-Noord heeft in de oorlog zijn tol betaald: evacuatie van de bevolking, later gevolgd door sloop van belangrijke delen van de bebouwing. Na de oorlog stond de wederopbouw van Velsen-Noord het eerste op de agenda, immers aan de noordkant van het Noordzeekanaal gelegen , dichtbij de Hoogovens, de belangrijkste werkgever in de streek.