• Stelling van Amsterdam, a ring of forts and inundation zones around Amsterdam circling from Muiden to Edam
• Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder, 17th century lake reclamation), between Alkmaar and Purmerend

• Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station), Lemmer (municipality of Lemsterland)
• Multiple-windmill drainage system at Kinderdijk-Elshout (municipality of Nieuw-Lekkerland), east of Rotterdam
• Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House), Utrecht
• Schokland and surroundings (municipality Noordoostpolder), west of Zwolle

Defense Line Amsterdam
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands have used their expert knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes. The centre of the country was protected by a network of 45 armed forts, acting in concert with temporary flooding from polders and an intricate system of canals and locks.
The Committee decided to inscribe the nominated property on the basis of cultural criteria (ii), (iv) and (v) considering that the site is of outstanding universal value as it is an exceptional example of an extensive integrated defence system of the modern period which has survived intact and well conserved since it was created in the later 19th century. It is also notable for the unique way in which the Dutch genius for hydraulic engineering has been incorporated into the defences of the nation's capital city.
Provinces of Noord-Holland (NH), Utrecht (UT)
N52 22 28 E4 53 35
Links:

"Herstelling" Foundation (dutch only)
The City of Amsterdam (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland
Defence Line of Amsterdam. A citywall of water
De Stelling van Amsterdam (Provincie Noord-Holland) (dutch only)

The Beemster Polder
The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is the oldest area of reclaimed land in the Netherlands. It has preserved intact its well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, dykes and settlements, laid out in accordance with classical and Renaissance planning principles.
Justification for Inscription
Criterion (i): The Beemster Polder is a masterpiece of creative planning, in which the ideals of antiquity and the Renaissance were applied to the design of a reclaimed landscape. Criterion (ii): The innovative and intellectually imaginative landscape of the Beemster Polder had a profound and lasting impact on reclamation projects in Europe and beyond. Criterion iv The creation of the Beemster Polder marks a major step forward in the interrelationship between humankind and water at a crucial period of social and economic expansion.
Province of Noord-Holland
N52 32 56 E4 54 40
Links:

The Beemster Polder
Werelderfgoed in Nederland (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland

The Wouda Pumping Station
The Wouda Pumping Station at Lemmer in the province of Friesland opened in 1920. It is the largest steam-pumping station ever built and is still in operation. It represents the high point of the contribution made by Netherlands engineers and architects in protecting their people and land against the natural forces of water.

Justification for Inscription
Criterion i: The advent of steam as a source of energy provided the Dutch engineers with a powerful tool in their millennial task of water management, and the Wouda installation is the largest of its type ever built. Criterion ii: The Wouda Pumping Station represents the apogee of Dutch hydraulic engineering, which has provided the models and set the standards for the whole world for centuries. Criterion iv: The Wouda pumping installations bear exceptional witness to the power of steam in controlling the forces of nature, especially as applied to water handling by Dutch engineers.
Lemmer, Lemsterland Municipality, Province of Friesland
N52 50 45 E5 40 44

Links:
De Friese waterschappen (dutch only)
Woudagemaal (Official Web site) (dutch only)
Woudagemaal op de Lijst van het Werelderfgoed (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland
Werelderfgoed in Nederland

Windmills Kinderdijk-Elshout area
The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Construction of hydraulic works for the drainage of land for agriculture and settlement began in the Middle Ages and have continued uninterruptedly to the present day. The site illustrates all the typical features associated with this technology – dykes, reservoirs, pumping stations, administrative buildings and a series of beautifully preserved windmills.

Justification for Inscription
The Committee decided to inscribe this site on the basis of criteria (i), (ii) and (iv) considering that the Kinderdijk-Elshout mill network is an outstanding man-made landscape that bears powerful testimony to human ingenuity and fortitude over nearly a millennium in draining and protecting an area by the development and application of hydraulic technology.
Municipalities of Alblasserdam and Nieuw-Lekkerland, Province of Zuid-Holland
N51 52 57 E4 38 58

Links:

Stichting Werelderfgoed Kinderdijk
Kinderdijk (Kinderdijk Promotions)
Werelderfgoed in Nederland (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland

The Rietveld Schröder House
The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder, designed by the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, and built in 1924. This small family house, with its interior, the flexible spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities, was a manifesto of the ideals of the De Stijl group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s, and has since been considered one of the icons of the Modern Movement in architecture.

Justification for Inscription
Criterion (i): The Rietveld Schröderhuis in Utrecht is an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture and an outstanding expression of human creative genius in its purity of ideas and concepts as developed by the De Stijl movement. Criterion (ii): With its radical approach to design and the use of space, the Rietveld Schröderhuis occupies a seminal position in the development of architecture in the modern age.
City and Province of Utrecht
N52 5 7 E5 8 50
Links:

Rietveld (Centraal Museum)
Werelderfgoed in Nederland (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland

Schokland
Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, it had to be evacuated in 1859. But following the draining of the Zuider Zee, it has, since the 1940s, formed part of the land reclaimed from the sea. Schokland has vestiges of human habitation going back to prehistoric times. It symbolizes the heroic, age-old struggle of the people of the Netherlands against the encroachment of the waters.
Noordoostpolder, Province of Flevoland
N52 38 19 E5 46 18
Links:

Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek (dutch only)
Werelderfgoed in Nederland (dutch only)
Stichting Platform Werelderfgoed Nederland