Weerwater


Weerwater is a small artificial lake in Almere Stad, the central district of Almere in the province Flevoland, Netherlands. The water and shores are used for recreation.
On and around Weerwater a cable ski track, a watersportscenter, watchtower, marina, campsite and four beaches:
The lake started off as a borrow pit, caused by excavations for Almere Haven and is situated north of Rijksweg 6. Because these excavations caused a new body of water to form, within a polder, this name "Weerwater" was adopted.
The actual city center of Almere is situated dicrectly to the north shore and the city theatre Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland 'hovers' over the water.
The perimeter of the Weerwater is approximately.
In 2009 the idea surfaced to let three locally well known writers tell the story about the city of Almere, due to the report 'Almere, stad met verbeelding'. The writers were invited to live in Almere with the task to write about their new residence. The second writer Renate Dorrestein named her novel: Weerwater
In the year 2022 horticultural exhibition Floriade is planned on the south side of the het Weerwater, on both sides of Rijksweg A6.