school "the Waterwolf" and an interdenominational school "the Tweemaster". The latter arose as a fusion between the Catholic school and the Protestant Christian school. The schools were small in size and are located next to each other in the same building. Most children were on "the Tweemaster". The Waterwolf and the Tweemaster fused together into one larger school of approximately 500 students and goes by the name “de Vijfsprong” The N205 (Drie Merenweg (Three Lakes Road)) runs past Vijfhuizen and there is an R-net stop in the Stellinghof district on the route between Haarlem and Hoofddorp. Between the Stellinghof district and the N205 is the former Floriade building that will accommodate the Expo Haarlemmermeer as of 1 February 2009. The Expo has its own R-net stop. Between 3 August 1912 and 31 December 1935, Vijfhuizen had a station on the Aalsmeer – Haarlem railway of the Haarlemmermeer railways. The old station building is still there. History Vijfhuizen already existed before the reclamation of the Haarlemmermeer lake. In the Middle Ages, the village was situated along the main route from Haarlem to Amsterdam. Vijfhuizen stretched from Haarlem to halfway through Nieuwerkerk, where the villagers went to church. To the north of Vijfhuizen was the Spieringmeer lake and to the south - the Haarlemmermeer lake. The land bridge between the lakes was swept away in 1508 by further flooding and bank erosion and what remained was a headland with a polder behind it. Until the reclamation of the Haarlemmermeer, Vijfhuizen held out against the "Waterwolf" (nickname of the Haarlemmermeer). The village was cut in two by the ring canal and Vijfhuizen came to lie as a piece of old land within the new polder. The street Kromme Spieringweg runs over the dike that has protected Vijfhuizen until the reclamation on the south side. After the reclamation, the first church service in the polder was on January 22, 1853 in an emergency church near Vijfhuizen. Photos References Populated places in North Holland Haarlemmermeer