Broek in Waterland is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands, with a population of about 2,745 inhabitants as of 2021.

It is made of ebony, rosewood and pallisander wood, which give it a dark colour and delicate texture.

During this renovation, the original ceiling frescoes of cherubs and fruit garlands were rediscovered under old layers of paint.

Many 17th and 18th century travel books of foreign travellers mentioned the cleanliness and tidiness of the village.The extreme cleanliness of Broek in Waterland led French visitors in the first half of the eighteenth century to dub this dairying village "le temple de la propreté hollandaise".

More than 10,000 drums of toxic chemical refuse was dumped here in the 1960s, most containing dioxin-rich 2,4,5-T, which was being produced in Amsterdam by the former company Philips Duphar (although they were cleared of responsibility by the courts), which were produced as the main defoliating ingredient of the Agent Orange formula, supplied to the Americans for their war in Vietnam, but other potentially hazardous chemicals were dumped here in large quantities, such as MCPA, lindane and Tedion.