Prinsenland Explained

Official Name:Prinsenland
Settlement Type:Neighborhood of Rotterdam
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Netherlands
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:South Holland
Subdivision Type2:COROP
Subdivision Name2:Rotterdam
Subdivision Type3:Borough
Subdivision Name3:Prins Alexander
Unit Pref:Imperial
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1

Prinsenland is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

51.9344°N 4.5486°WThe north of the neighborhood was built in the 1960s, at the same time as the adjacent neighborhood Het Lage Land. The rest of the neighborhood was built in several stages in the 1990s.

It consists of many different types of housing (flats, apartments, row-houses) surrounding the urban park Prinsenpark.[1] In the Prinsenpark there is a cemetery, skate park, and a lake, which contains the monument to the lowest point in the Netherlands, the Vierkant eiland in de plas (Square Island in the Lake) build in 1996.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Het Lage Land . web.archive.org . 24 March 2024 . 1 October 2017.
  2. Web site: 2011-05-31. Dutch Water Facts. 2021-05-14. www.holland.com. en.