Historical boats in Marken Harbour by Hedepo

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 12, 2008

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Historical boats (approx 100 years old) in Marken Harbour!! Despite the fact that most of the houses on Marken are made out of wood, just like the traditional boats, there are only a very few trees on this island!! The Marken peninsula is situated 20 km. north of Amsterdam in The Waterland region of Holland . This beautiful fishing village painted in full traditional colours offers you a fascinating insight into Dutch history, dating back to the 12th century. The wooden houses and architecture that form Marken are packed tightly together on earth mounds. Previous flooding of the area due to dike failures has forced the inhabitants of Marken to construct huge earth mounds in the bid to build on higher ground. The dike that attaches Marken to the mainland was finally finished in 1957. The Island Marken was before 1932 in the “ZuiderSea”. A dike (the “afsluitdijk”; 20 miles long) was constructed and in 1932 the Zuidersea was turned into the IJssellake which turned over the years from saltwater into freshwater. The whole eco-system had to change as well. Have a very nice evening Henk

Comments (19)

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amlondono

4:09PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

Beautiful series on Marken Harbour , Great shot , Ana

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babuci

4:29PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

AhA, we are on a harbour walk. Getting closer to those interesting houses. Excelent capture, rich in colors.

BorisB

4:46PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

What a beautiful scene, looks like a nice place for relaxing!!

fadox

5:01PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

great pov,i love holland (who said for smoking?)

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dhanco

5:16PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

Looks like a beautiful place. Excellent capture.

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danob

5:22PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

An amazingly beautiful place I really must venture up further north one of these days

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Cosine

6:13PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

Excellent colorful photo, and I love the history lesson, too. Thanks, Henk.

Charberry

9:13PM | Wed, 12 March 2008

That is all interesting! Beautiful image. I think boats are so fascinating. It's funny that you should mention about building up the ground to place a house on higher ground. We have a flood area that people build on here, but instead of building up the ground where the house sits, they built a levee all around the area, which breaks all of the time. It costs a lot of money to maintain it. Oh well... maybe some day they will learn? ;o)

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