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Slotermeer, Amsterdam — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Slotermeer is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam in the Dutch province of North Holland, named for the Slootermeer, a lake that once lay across this ground.
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Where to stay in Slotermeer
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Slotermeer is a neighbourhood of Amsterdam laid out over ground the Slootermeer once covered. Slotermeer has hotels in its centre. They stand around the indoor mall and the market, alongside offices and a small harbour.
Museum house Van Eesteren marks the quarter for anyone curious about how it was planned, and central Amsterdam is the alternative for a stay among the sights.
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Slotermeer is housing laid over the vanished Slootermeer, with De Kandelaar and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Lourdeskerk among the blocks and hotels in its centre.Find hotels in Slotermeera stay in central AmsterdamAmsterdam
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About Slotermeer
What are the main landmarks in Slotermeer?
Four entries carry the neighbourhood. De Olijftak and De Kandelaar are church buildings recorded here, and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Lourdeskerk stands with them, giving Slotermeer a set of parish landmarks rather than one dominant monument. Museum house Van Eesteren is the fourth.
Amsterdam keeps the rest of what North Holland shows a visitor.
What is the history of Slotermeer?
The lake came first. Slotermeer takes its name from the Slootermeer, a body of water that used to lie across this ground before Amsterdam's growth put streets and housing blocks over it. No date marks when Slotermeer replaced the water.
What the sources hold instead is a sequence of parish buildings, De Olijftak and De Kandelaar and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Lourdeskerk among them, and the Van Eesteren house that explains the plan.
Where is Slotermeer?
Slotermeer occupies flat Amsterdam ground that the Slootermeer once covered, inside the Dutch province of North Holland.
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What is the best area to stay in Slotermeer?
Slotermeer: visitors circling Museum house Van Eesteren and the Slootermeer's drained bed. Amsterdam: a stay in central Amsterdam.
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Updated October 2026