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Museum Castle Amerongen
Museum Castle Amerongen
Drostestraat 20
3958 BK Amerongen -
Windmill Windhond
Windmill Windhond
3447 GR Woerden -
Batteries on the Karnemelksloot
Batteries on the Karnemelksloot
Verlengde Fortlaan 116
1411 EA Naarden -
Fort Abcoude
Fort Abcoude
1391 CG Abcoude -
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
3512 TG Utrecht -
Mill de Hoop
Mill de Hoop
3752 CL Bunschoten-Spakenburg -
Fort 't Hemeltje
Fort 't Hemeltje
3992 LX Houten -
Plofsluis
Plofsluis
The Plofsluis consists of five concrete bins with a relatively weak floor that span the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. The bins could store around 40,000 tonnes of sand, gravel or debris. In wartime, the floor could be blow up, so that its contents would drop into the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. This would block the canal and prevent the inundation water from flowing out. The lock was designed in such a way that its sides would remain upright after the explosion, so that the floor could be reconstructed and the sluice could be used again. It was never actually used.
3439 LS Nieuwegein -
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Brouwerij Maximus
Brouwerij Maximus
3454 NA Utrecht -
Lock at Cothen
Lock at Cothen
The water board uses the dam in the Kromme Rijn in Cothen to regulate the flow of water to and from Utrecht. The monumental lock alongside it (from 1865) was used during wartime to move ships past the dam. When the Waterline needed to be flooded, the commander of the inundation station at Wijk bij Duurstede first gave the order to raise the water level in the Kromme Rijn by closing off the lock with stop logs. Next, he ordered the stop logs to be removed so that a large body of water could flow from the open lock to Utrecht.
3945BN Cothen -
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De Vriendschap windmill
De Vriendschap windmill
Nieuweweg 109
3905 LJ Veenendaal -
TOP Park Vliegbasis Soesterberg
TOP Park Vliegbasis Soesterberg
3768 MX Soest -
Inundation lock at Wijk bij Duurstede
Inundation lock at Wijk bij Duurstede
In 1870, the Kromme Rijn was given a key role in the New Dutch Waterline. Back then, it took almost a month to flood the area around Utrecht. This had to be speeded up. To this end, the river was widened, its bends were straightened and locks and dams were built. Near Wijk bij Duurstede, a large inundation lock was built that made Wijk bij Duurstede the ‘tap’ with which to turn on the New Dutch Waterline. This reduced the time needed to flood the inundation areas to between 4 and 12 days. The inlet is still used daily to transport fresh water to the city of Utrecht and the river Vecht.
3961CH Wijk bij Duurstede -
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De Paltz Estate
De Paltz Estate
3768 MZ Soest -
Tabaksschuur Amerongen
Tabaksschuur Amerongen
3958 ET Amerongen -
Grote Kerk Vianen (Great Church)
Grote Kerk Vianen (Great Church)
Hubrecht van Vianen founded a chapel in the 13th Century. It fell under the mother church in Hagestein and began growing fast. In the year 1345, it became a parish church and was granted marriage and burial rights. For this, a sum of money had to be paid to the church in Hagestein annually. In the 14th Century, the chapel was replaced by a single-nave church. In the year 1433, following a feud between Vianen and Hagestein, the Bishop of Utrecht decided to split the two churches.
In the mid-15th Century, the church was replaced by a 3-aisle Gothic hall church which is the same size as the current church. (Including the tower, it’s 77.5 metres long, 43 metres wide and 41 metres high.) Since the church also contains the family graves of the Lords of Vianen, it was required to match the grand status of the Brederodes in terms of its size and appearance.
After a fire in the year 1540, the church (de Grote Kerk) was rebuilt in its current form almost immediately (as a combination of a hall church and cruciform church) with the support of Reinoud III van Brederode. The church became Reformed under his son, Hendrik van Brederode. On 25 September 1566, the Roman Catholic institution disappeared and then, on 1 October, the first Protestant service was held.
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Voorstraat 110
4132 AT Vianen -
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Dunes of Soest
Dunes of Soest
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Papal house
Papal house
3512 HE Utrecht -
Café-Restaurant De Lage Vuursche
Café-Restaurant De Lage Vuursche
3749 AD Lage Vuursche -
Museum Spakenburg
Museum Spakenburg
3752 AH Bunschoten-Spakenburg -
Diefdijk
Diefdijk
This centuries-old long dyke marks the border between the Betuwe to the east and the lowlands to the west. The purpose of the Diefdijk was to protect the lower-lying meadows whenever the higher Betuwe flooded. The dyke was reinforced in 2015 and still serves its purpose today. It was also part of the New Dutch Waterline: the area to the east of the dyke served as an inundation area. To this day, this area remains scarcely built up. Nature reserves of various sizes border the dyke on either side.
Diefdijk
4143 MG Leerdam -
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TOP Groeneveld Castle
TOP Groeneveld Castle
3744 ML Baarn -
Dutch Water Defence Lines
Dutch Water Defence Lines
De Hollandse Waterlinies
Utrecht -
Renswoude Castle
Renswoude Castle
3927BA Renswoude
