Kinderdijk, looking back at the 2010 series
As you've may have noticed, I'm closing my 2010 series, this is my last upload of the Kinderdijk.
TGIF my friends!
Kinderdijk (a free translation: Childrendike) is a village in the province South-Holland in the Netherlands and is part of the commnity Nieuw-Lekkerland.
The place is famous for it's mills, which are on the World heritage list of UNESCO since 1997.
There are nineteen mills, build around 1740.
Pastures with grass-feeding cattle, willows and mills, long stretched villages on dikes and near rivers, hitorcal farms and blooming fruitorchards, this is the typical argrarian culturelandscape of the south edge of the green hart of the Netherlands.
Kinderdijk was the first dutch village with electricity supply, in 1886.
There are many story's about the name Kinderdijk. The most famous one is as follows:
In 1421 there was a big flood, called the Saint Elisabethsflood. When the worst part of the storm was over, people climbed on the dike to see what the damage was and they saw a creadle floating on the water. They had no hope that there was something alive in that cradle, but when they came closer, they saw a cat jumping on that cradle from one side to another to keep it in balance, so that there couldn't come any water in that cradle.When that cradle finally reached the dike, they saw a baby peacefully sleeping in that cradle, tadaa....Kinderdijk, with thanks to that cat ofcourse.
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