Zaanse Schans - Retro - a photo on Flickriver

The Zaanse Schans is a delightful village on the banks of the river Zaan with characteristic green wooden houses, charming stylized gardens, small hump-backed bridges, tradesmen's workshops, historic windmills and engaging little shops.

This enchanting village has been lovingly established by relocating local houses, windmills, storehouses and barns to form a remarkable replica of a typical Zaanse village of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Wind Mills

The cunning application of the crank shaft revolutionised the development of industrial windmills in the Netherlands. Cornelis Corneliszoon or Uitgeest, an inventor at the beginning of the Golden Age the principle applied for the first time with a floating sawmill in 1592. This process was so successful that timber production in the area rose by 3000 percent. With an abundance of wind and water and the close proximity of Amsterdam's important, global, commercial center the stage was set for the Zaan region to become the first industrial area in the world.

Of the thousand industrial windmills ever built along the banks of the river Zaan thirteen remain. Six can be found at the Zaanse Schans.

www.zaanseschans.nl/

De Zaanse Schans is een unieke woon-en werkbuurt vol werkende molens, oude ambachten, bijzondere musea en prachtige groene houten huizen.

Molens

De toepassing van de krukas vormde de basis voor de ontwikkeling van de industriemolens in Nederland. Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest paste dit principe in 1594 voor het eerst toe in een houtzaagmolen. Het met de hand zagen van boomstammen behoorde vanaf dat moment tot het verleden. Gezien de beschikbaarheid van windkracht en water en de nabijheid van het belangrijke handelscentrum Amsterdam werd hier in snel tempo een groot aantal molens gebouwd. Zo ontwikkelde de Zaanstreek zich tot een van de eerste industriegebieden van West-Europa. Van de ruim duizend industriemolens die ooit langs de Zaan werden gebouwd zijn er nog dertien bewaard gebleven, waarvan er zes op de Zaanse Schans staan.

www.zaanseschans.nl/

Taken in: Nederland / Noord-Holland / Zaanse Schans (show map)

Taken on: August 2, 2011

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