Bivakhuisje
This small building was originally part of a group of eight units, each consisting of two mobile homes linked together. The whole st...
This small building was originally part of a group of eight units, each consisting of two mobile homes linked together. The unit stood on the barren plain where the centre of Almere Haven 57 would later rise. The interior space was 11 by 6 metres, with a shed at right angles to it measuring 6 by 3. There was a bathroom with a bathtub, an open kitchen with an extractor fan, and each unit had two bedrooms. Tenants were three State Police officers, two utility workers, two ambulance workers and the caretaker of the wooden building The Hook with their families. A total of 13 adults and nine children. They were suffering. They were hampered by field mouse infestations, sandstorms and roaring excavators. The children went to school in Muiderberg, where the residents also did their shopping. It was not until 30 November 1976 that the first stone houses on the Schoolyard could be moved into and Het Bivak could be vacated. The story goes that the RIJP donated it to Garden Park Water-Land around 1978, where it remained in use as an office and was well maintained. In 2023, it became a municipal monument on the grounds of 'its identity and amenity value'. As such, this unique piece of Almere history continues to tell the stories of its earliest days.
