"THE ZAANSTREEK" Houses & Windmills,
Because Quint was asking for information about the windmills and he asked " Show me some windmills " and Alice was asking "what is the function of windmills" So for everybody who is interested in WINDMILLS and the HOUSES and HISTORY of the ZAANSE SCHANS, may like to read the under story, if you may not like to read it : Just look at the photo's to get an idea....
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History of the Zaanstreek
The Zaanstreek,
is a centuries old peat district named after the river Zaan. This important waterway in the province of North Holland originated as a natural drain for the surrounding marshy peat area. The Zaanstreek with its many industrial windmills is believed to be the oldest industrial area in Europe. Industrial progress is easily seen at the Zaanse Schans with windmills in the foreground and modern factories on the horizon.
De Zaanstreek,
De Zaanstreek is een eeuwenoud veenweidegebied, dat zijn naam ontleent aan de Zaan. Deze belangrijke waterweg in Noord-Holland is ontstaan als natuurlijke afwatering voor de naastgelegen veengebieden. De Zaanstreek, met zijn vele industriemolens, behoort tot de oudste industriegebieden van Europa. De ontwikkeling van de industrie is goed te zien op de Zaanse Schans, met zijn molens op de voorgrond en de moderne, hedendaagse industrie aan de horizon.
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Zaanse Schans ,
With its traditional green painted houses, warehouses and windmills the Zaanse Schans gives the feeling of having stepped back into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, however this is not an open air museum but a colourful living and working neighbourhood. The hamlet has not always existed though. Most of the buildings were re-located from other areas in the Zaanstreek in the 1960’s and 70’s as owing to urban development they were under threat of obliteration. They were safely moved to the Zaanse Schans; the exact location where in 1574 Diederik van Sonoy, a Governor in the service of William of Orange, with the aid of local people, erected entrenchments or Schans to hold back the advancing Spanish army.
Zaanse Schans,
Met zijn traditionele houten huizen, pakhuizen en windmolens geeft de Zaanse Schans het gevoel terug te zijn in de zeventiende of achttiende eeuw. Toch is het geen openluchtmuseum, maar een levendige buurt waar wordt gewoond en gewerkt. De buurtschap is er bovendien niet altijd geweest, want de Zaanse Schans is grotendeels tot stand gekomen in de jaren zestig en zeventig van de vorige eeuw. Op hun oorspronkelijke plaats belemmerden de historische panden de vooruitgang in de streek, waardoor ze naar de Zaanse Schans werden verplaatst. Naar de plek waar Diederik van Sonoy, gouverneur in dienst van Willem van Oranje in 1574 door de Zaankanters een schans liet opwerpen om de Spaanse troepen tegen te houden. Zo komt de Zaanse Schans aan zijn naam.
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Zaanse houses,
The development of building construction, architecture, decoration and the use of traditional building materials are all to be found at the Zaanse Schans. The 19 listed buildings and remaining historic buildings are all tarred black or painted green. Green painted houses have become traditional in Zaandam but Zaanse green itself does not exist. A variety of greens are used today much as they were used in the past. This collection of buildings together gives a complete picture of how houses were built in the Zaanstreek during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Zaanse huizen,
De ontwikkeling van bouwconstructies, architectuur, versieringen en de gebruikte traditionele bouwmaterialen, zijn goed terug te vinden op de Zaanse Schans. De 19 Rijksmonumenten en de overige historische gebouwen zijn alle zwart geteerd of groen geschilderd. Net zomin als vroeger werd daarvoor dezelfde kleur groene verf gebruikt, want "Zaans groen " bestaat niet. De verschillende panden geven met elkaar een volledig beeld hoe in de Zaanstreek in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw werd gebouwd.
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Zaanse windmills,
Increasing trade and industry in Amsterdam at the end of the sixteenth century created the need for the development of industrial windmills in the flat, wet Zaanse landscape. Over the centuries more than a thousand of these little wind driven factories flourished along the river Zaan and in the surrounding countryside. Windmills were used for SEVERAL FUNCTIONS such as : wood sawing, hulling and threshing grains, and the production of amongst other things; seed and nut oil, paint, snuff and mustard.
Zaanse molens
De toenemende handel en nijverheid in Amsterdam aan het einde van de zestiende eeuw, vormden de grondslag voor de industriemolens in het vlakke en waterrijke Zaanse land. In de loop der eeuwen verrezen meer dan duizend van deze door wind aangedreven fabriekjes langs de Zaan en in de omringende velden. Molens zorgden in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw voor het zagen van hout, het pellen van gerst of rijst en het produceren van o.a. lijnolie, verf, snuiftabak, papier en mosterd.
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Have A Good WEEKEND :)
Een goed weekend gewenst :)
Friday, October 05, 2007
Zaanse Schans & DUTCH Windmills
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32 comments:
Wonderful pictures especially since I've never really been up close to a windmill! The few I have seen don't look anything like those. Thanks JoAnn, for the pictures and history.
Thanks for the little history lesson. I have always loved windmills. Great pictures.
Nou nou je hebt je huiswerk goed gedaan.
Goed weekend.
Wow!! Great shots of some working windmills. I like the history too. Have a wonderful weekend.
Ummmmm I am not always making such a big words blog so next time more photography of me :)
Thanks:)
*DOT
*Happyone,
*Gmj
*Dick
Foryour interest and I personal like it more to show more photography so THIS is ann exeption:) BLUSH :)
Happy weekend greetings
somehow I am very fond of windmills since childhood. They have held me in fascination.my sis and family have visited Holland and have seen them first hand.they brought us a tiny porcelain picture of a windmill.
I love windmills, they look so graceful.
I like the first photo alot. I will be glad to see more of Holland.
Great history and information about windmills an I love the pictures of them too. They belong on a postcard.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks a whole lot for those wonderful photos, Joann.
Yep, you saw thta your name is quite simnilar to the one of the place I live in?
We are into the next generation of windmills...turbine or some such thing...I will see if I can get a picture. Have a great weekend....hugs to IOS and to you!!
Interesting facts & pictures about those windmills.
You're lucky to be there where they live.
No, I was not driving when I took that picture! :) I was walking in the zoo.
Hi, JoAnn!
Thanks for posting the windmill photos (and explanations!). We were in Amsterdam a few weeks ago, and I didn't get to see any windmills except the ones used for electric power along the North Sea.
Beautiful windmill shots, I love these! I'm glad to see them, nice work. :-D
Nice history too.
Great photo. The windmill is quite lovely. Thanks for all the info.
Thanks for visiting my NorthBayPhoto blog. And have a great weekend (I'll be having lots of turkey & pumpkin pie since it is Thanksgiving here in Canada).
A wonderful weekend to you too, my dear Dutchess ;D
What am I doing up so late? Huh? Going to bed now. Hugs.
I am always interesting in learning things. I have been fascinated by wind mills since I once learned over 60 years ago that they were used to pump out the sea water in Holland and to reclaim the land.
With Global Warming raising sea levels, how much increased sea level height can Holland stand without being overwhelmed by the sea and the sea reclaiming the land from Holland?
It is something tht would worry me if I live in Holland.
Great photos and thank you for the information.
beautiful and interesting ! thank you
Very interesting JoAnn. Have a lovely weekend!
Windmills are always fascinating to look at, especially as a child.
Great pics again. :0)
I saw them today on my way to Amsterdam
I must have told u this before, Joann.....I love Dutch windmills....they are my favorite functional buildings after lighthouses :)
Have a great Sunday :)
Thank you, JoAnn, for the posting about the windmills and the houses. I'd love to see those windmills operating.
It reminded me of a housing museum that I visited in Switzerland with my family. Sixty houses had been relocated to this museum and showed different types of housing through the centuries. It was very interesting indeed.
So This weekend I made an exeption by publicing a complete history about the "Zaanse Schans" and the windmills + green wooden house,
I hope it was not too much reading for you all?
But you seemd to like it (most of all) So THANK YOU for your interest..
*Amrita how sweet you have this little windmill from porcelain..:)
* Akelamalu Thanks:)
*lv2scpbk I will show more thats the idea behind making this blog, so please come back:)
*Photowannabe, funny I will make a postcard from the photo's, great idea thanks:)
Quint, Yes a little different but almost as joane (my name JoAnn):)
* neva Thanks again:)
*Sydney:)
* Ruth just be carefull. I' glad you were not driving:)
*Chis that a pity!! You should have taken a train, its very nearby, next time ask me where you have to go! :) I'll tell you how to travel to see windmills:)
*Mary thanks you glad, you liked it:)
*Nortbay, hmmm Turkey ? why eating that is it a special celebration day there? I missed the point: ) I like you blog also a lot!
*Fenix, thans my pal:)
*Hi Abl I thank you for YOUR information about pomping the water (I was going to tell that soon) the sealevel question I have to look that up, I will answer soon OK? thanks for asking.
*Daniel :) thanks
*Catrin Thanks :)
*CJ have a great weekend to you too:) and thanks:)
*Jayne yes they are always facinating me too, because of what they do:)And it looks great to see them going in the wind!:)
* Griesmail, you are lucky because the overseas blogreders can't see windmills, thanks for commenting!:)
* Hi Moi, yes windmills are easier on land for lighthouses I have to go to the sea, that not closeby , but I remeber you like them .Thanks:)
*Alice oooh yeh? That indeed interesting, wher in Switserland was that museum? We might go someday and than I would like to visit that museum also... Thanks for telling me. I am glad you liked the post, it was partially for you too:)
Thanks everyone for your interest (I am surprised again!) and have a great end of the weekend!!!!!:)
JoAnn :)
Hi Joann, I think we all appreciate the time you spent researching about Zaanse windmills, and the fact that you shared it wiht us. Very instructive for me as well, I never got to see those windmills. They look very nice indeed. I'll think of you when I go to Zaandam (planned visit soon)!
By the way, I've linked your blog to The Hague Daily Photo!
*Hi ABL
My answer on your question about the Dutch Sealevel is this:
"Half of Holland is laying below sealevel allready, but the dikes and dunes are strong enough to keep us safe, but without that we would be in trouble .
The Dutch are very clever/good in waterworks, we measured out /count on, the raising sealevel in the future,so we do not worry all the time. We are used to this situation..I hpe I answered your question ? Thanks for your worries:)"
* Hi Lezard Yes? will you go soon to the Zaans Schans? Bring a warm coat because its windy there always, enjoy your visit, Thanks for linking my blog. I linked yours on mine too :)
Thanks everyone for your HIGH interest!
JoAnn:)
What an educating, readable and interesting post. Of course everyone knows there is a lot of mills in your country, but reading about the background was very interesting.
Yes, I love to learn such things, so thats for the tips!
Wonderful. I've only seen them in photos.
This is a wonderful place to see in real life, JoAnn. I have been there twice and would go back again! Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for your interest,
*Rennaby, John and Ginnie,
Its not very wellknown by everyone, to know what the function of several windmills are, so I am glasd hat I could inform you blogreader,
I'll try to find more windmills and more background stories about my country ...
Greetings from joAnn:)
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