Prins Alexander

Prins Alexander (light green) within Rotterdam (purple).

Sculpture in Ommoord

Prins Alexander is a borough in the northeast of Rotterdam, Netherlands. As of 2023, it had 96,452 inhabitants,^[1] making it the most populated borough in the city.

Prins Alexander has 7 neighbourhoods:

• Het Lage Land
• Kralingseveer
• Nesselande
• Ommoord
• Oosterflank
• Prinsenland
• Zevenkamp

Public transportation

Prins Alexander is connected to the city center of Rotterdam through Rotterdam Metro lines A and B, with line A connecting to Binnenhof station and line B to Nesselande station.

Rotterdam Alexander railway station, on the main line from Rotterdam to Utrecht, is located in the center of the borough.

Prins Alexanderpolder

Large parts of Prins Alexander lie in the Prins Alexanderpolder. This polder was reclaimed from peat fen near the river Rotte, north east of the city. In total 14 peat fens were laid dry. The fens were drained between 1865 and 1874, resulting in 2,825 hectares (6,980 acres) of farmland. The polder was named after Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (1851-1884).^[2][3]

References

1. "Wijkprofiel Rotterdam". wijkprofiel.rotterdam.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
2. Blink, Hendrik (1892). Nederland en zijne bewoners: Handboek der aardrijkskunde en volkenkunde van Nederland Met Kaarten en Afbeeldingen [The Netherlands and its inhabitants: A Handbook of Geography and Ethnology of the Netherlands with Maps and Images] (in Dutch). Amsterdam: S. L. Van Looy. p. 29. OCLC 942948837.
3. van de Ven, G. P. (1993). Man-made Lowlands: History of Water Management and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Matrijs. p. 196. ISBN 978-9-05345-030-7.

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