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Lange jan (mini Walcheren) - Middelburg
Lange jan (mini Walcheren)
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Walk along the old city strongholds
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  • By tompt on September 1, 2004
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  • Middelburg Off the Beaten Path
    by tompt
    There is not much to see of the old city strongholds, only the contours and the moat surrounding the city are giving an idea of what it must have been like in the old days.
    But it is a nice walk along the water with lots of green. You also see two windmills, and even a part of the old northgate.
    The distance is not long and you can easily walk it in an hour.

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  • Updated By ATLC on March 23, 2003
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  • MIDDELBURG - Middelburg
    MIDDELBURG
    by ATLC
    Everywhere in The Netherlands people organised help for the victims of the disaster. Hundreds of children were sent on holiday, even as far as Italy, to regain strength and help them forget the bad times.
    Many goods were collected, food, clothes and houseware. The photo shows some products from those times: soap, tinned peas...

    To raise money there were stamp savings, concerts and exhibitions, an old man polished shoes for a fee, books were published, children organised fundraising with cents and dimes and the tv-stations held a charity called Purses Open, Dykes Closed (Beurzen open, dijken dicht).

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    Water flood
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  • By ATLC on March 23, 2003
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    MIDDELBURG
    by ATLC
    Over 1800 people died in this disaster. And since then Dutch engineering has developed itself to the finest in the world to win the fight against the sea by building various dams and storm barriers and still leaving the natural water and its flora and fauna intact.

    I took this picture off a video shown at the exhibition at the Zeeuwsche Archief. It shows three men and a woman going in a boat over to their house, maybe to salvage anything that is left.

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    Koepoort
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  • By tompt on September 1, 2004
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    Koepoort, Middelburg
    by tompt
    The Koepoort (cowgate) is an old citygate. It was designed by Jan de Munck in 1735.

    The gate was not only a citygate but also the house to two families.

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    NEAR THE OOSTKERK.....
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  • By eden_teuling on August 8, 2003
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  • BLACK AND GINGER... - Middelburg
    BLACK AND GINGER...
    by eden_teuling
    is a sweet narrow street where we have to walk.....cobblestoned......and this sweetie was there on top of a hot car, trying to sleep but I wasn't quick enough with my camera.

    It jumped down and started frolicking around my legs......

    It took me quite some time but I thought its "design" so great....and those colours black / ginger!

    More info about the Oostkerk in the Must See tips....

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    Old map
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  • Updated By ATLC on March 27, 2003
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  • MIDDELBURG OLD MAP - Middelburg
    MIDDELBURG OLD MAP
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    Digitation source:
    Braun and Hogenberg
    Civitates Orbis Terrarum II 28

    Date: first Latin edition of volume II
    was published in 1575

    Engraving:
    admitted to Frans Hogenberg

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    The terrible water disaster of 1953
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  • By ATLC on March 23, 2003
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  • MIDDELBURG - Middelburg
    MIDDELBURG
    by ATLC
    Please click this picture to enlarge. It is the newspaper of February 2nd 1953 announcing the terrible storm surge flood that happened the day before, now 50 years ago.

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    A Dutch Sea-goddess?
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    nehalennieae-goddess-middelburg
    by RoyJava
    Yep! Holland did have a Goddess of its own. Nehalennieae is a Goddess, a female deity, contrasts with male deities, known as "Gods". Stone altars were shown when spring tide blew away the dune sand. Research and studies dated the altars, special dedicated to Nehalennieae, as early as 3 centuries BC.

    Most pieces show a young female figure, sitting on a throne in an apse between two columns, holding a basket of apples on her lap. Almost always, there is a wolf dog at her side. In some cases, the fruit basket is replaced by something that looks like loaves of bread; in other cases, we can see the woman standing next to a ship or a prow.

    Ofcourse the interpretations are extremely difficult, although there are some certain cases. Symbols show the reservations to gods, so for sure Nehalennieae is not a Priestess, or even a mermaid ...

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    Beautiful front
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  • By marc56 on August 18, 2003
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  • front 1734 - Middelburg
    front 1734
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    A front from 1734. Very nice

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    Birds in the basement
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  • By ATLC on March 25, 2003
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  • BIRD CAGE IN THE BASEMENT - Middelburg
    BIRD CAGE IN THE BASEMENT
    by ATLC
    Along the Londensekaai i saw a complete volière in the basement!

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