Oude Wetering

The village was first mentioned between 1280 and 1287 as "Oude watheringhe", and means "old waterway". Oude (old) has been added to distinguish from Nieuwe Wetering.^[3] Oude Wetering is a dike village which developed along the eponymous canal which was dug in the 13th century. The village started as a peat excavation settlement.^[4]

The Dutch Reformed church is a T-shaped church with ridge turret from the 17th century. In 1843, the neoclassic front was added to church.^[4] The Catholic St Jacobus Church was built in 1966 as a replacement of the 1893 church. It burnt down in 1969, and was rebuilt in the same style. It used to have a detached belfry, but the bells were sold to a church in Brielle.^[5]

Oude Wetering was home to 622 people in 1840.^[5] In 1912, a railway station opened on the Hoofddorp to Leiden Heerensingel railway line. The line closed in 1936, and the building was demolished in 1938.^[6] After World War II, Oude Wetering started to form a single urban area with Roelofarendsveen.^[4]

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  St Jacobus Church in Oude Wetering
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  Ferry to Leimuiden
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  View from the Haarlemmermeer
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  Former railway station