Flevopark, Amsterdam

Flevopark is an Amsterdam park whose western edge meets a Jewish cemetery dating from 1714. The cemetery has had no burials since 1942, and its graves remain in place, allowing the burial ground and park to function as a single ecological landscape. The park took shape through Jac.

P. Thijsse’s campaign for this stretch between the cemetery and the Nieuwe Diep, with construction beginning in 1928. At the western entrance, the old Hekkepoort gives the park a gateway with a long urban history: it was built in 1770, later removed from the city boundary, and reconstructed here from its original stones.

Near the drainage ditch, a former pumping station operated from 1880 to 1984. Since 2010, the former station has contained a distillery making jenever and liqueurs, alongside an orchard tasting garden beside the Nieuwe Diep.