Schalkwijk is the largest neighbourhood of Haarlem

Haarlem

Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. It has about 30.000 inhabitants, and covers about 25% of the municipality of Haarlem.

Until 1963, Schalkwijk was a part of the municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude

Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude

Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-Population centres :The municipality of Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Haarlemmerliede, Halfweg, Penningsveer, Spaarndam ,...

. It consisted of two hamlets, North Schalkwijk and South Schalkwijk

Zuidschalkwijk

Zuidschalkwijk is a hamlet in the northwestern Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Haarlem, about 4 km south of the city centre....

. The latter still exists as a separate hamlet; the area of North Schalkwijk is now covered by the residential area Schalkwijk that was built in the 1960s.