Ommoord

Ommoord is a neighbourhood in the former borough Prins Alexander, part of the municipality of Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands.

Four avenues surround a middle area where high rise buildings (8, 14 or 20 floors) dominate the urban landscape.

Many streets in the middle area of Ommoord have been named after Nobel prize winners, most of them ending in -plaats, meaning square, but often being just parking lots.

Until well into the 1990s, lower class and middle-class people were living rather mixed in the high rise buildings in Ommoord's middle area.

De Ommoordse kip, a large wooden chicken, is positioned next to a parking lot at President Wilsonweg.

[5] It started as advertisement for De Blijde Wei (in English: the happy meadow), a farm with animals meant to visit with children, but de Kip has become a monument in its own right, adopted by the community, after having suffered from football hooligans painting it orange for Euro and world football tournaments.

[6] Many clubs and organizations forming the social infrastructure of Ommoord neighborhood have been chased out of their rooms in the Romeynshof when the central town administration started to charge commercial rents to volunteers who could not afford this.

A market is held every Wednesday on the west end of Hesseplaats, but its popularity is declining, as Ommoord's population is changing.

Those who insist on paying with cash money should save up their 2 Euro-coins, walk (15 or 20 minutes) to Rotterdam Alexander station and buy a train ticket from the machine.

The closest bridge to cross Rotte river by car is Irenebrug, part of the Molenlaan, a heavily congested corridor linking Hillegersberg neighborhood with Terbregge and Ommoord.

Half-junction 27 of A16, now only useful from/towards the south, will be extended and made complete with slip roads from/towards the north, improving travel times.