The very first resident of Almere, Lia de Clerk, has died at the age of ninety, reports Broadcasting Flevoland Monday. In 1976, the woman was the first to receive the keys to her house in the then completely new city.
De Clerk came to live at the Schoolwerf in Almere Haven. She originally lived in Amsterdam and was able to move into her new home in Almere on November 30, 1976.
“It was raining terribly. It was just bad weather. And then you open the door and you see your house. Then you are just very happy,” she later said about this in several interviews, according to the broadcaster.
On the house where De Clerk lived at the time, there is a plaque that commemorates the fact that the De Clerk family were the first inhabitants of Almere.
In 2013, the De Clerk couple were honored with a tile on the Almere Walk of Fame. The name of the family is on the tile with the year 1976. In 2016, the now deceased woman went to the Senate together with the 200,000th resident of Almere, where they were presented with a large cake to celebrate the growth of Almere.
Almere is located where the Zuiderzee used to be. In 1932, that sea changed into the IJsselmeer, due to the construction of the Afsluitdijk between Friesland and North Holland. Construction of Almere started in 1975, on September 30 to be precise. More than 222,000 people now live there.
2023-12-04 16:35:43
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