ENKHUIZEN  , a seaport of

Holland in the province of North Holland, on the Zuider Zee, and a railway terminus, 112 m . N.E. by E. of Hoorn, with which it is also connected by steam tramway . In conjunction with the railway service there is a steamboat ferry to Stavoren in Friesland . Pop . (1900) 6865 . Enkhuizen, like its neighbour Hoorn, exhibits many interesting examples of domestic architecture dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, when :t was an important and flourishing city . The facades of the houses are usually built in courses of brick and stone, and adorned with carvings, sculptures and inscriptions . Some ruined gateways belonging to the old city walls are still standing; among them being the tower-gateway called the Dromedary (1540), which overlooks the harbour . The tower contains several rooms, one of which was formerly used as a prison . Among the churches mention must be made of the Zuiderkerk, or South church, with a conspicuous tower (1450-1525); and the Wester-' kerk, or West church, which possesses a beautifully carved Renaissance screen and pulpit of the middle of the 16th century, and a quaint wooden bell-house (1519) built for use before the completion of the bell-tower . There are also a Roman Catholic church and a synagogue . The picturesque town hall (1688) contains some finely decorated rooms with paintings by Johan I van Neck, a collection of local antiquities and the archives .

Other interesting buildings are the orphanage (1616), containing some 17th and 18th century portraits and

ancient leather hangings; the weigh-house (1559), the upper story of which was once used by the Surgeons' Gild, several of the window-panes (dating chiefly from about 1640), being decorated with the arms of various members; the former mint (1611); and the ancient assembly-house of the dike-reeves of Holland and West Friesland . Enkhuizen possesses a considerable fishing fleet and has some shipbuilding and rope-making, as well as market { traffic .