Spakenburg - View of the old Harbor and shipyard
The name Spakenburg appears for the first time in the 15th century. The fishing village was on the Zuiderzee and has had many floods. For that reason, the houses were initially built high against the dyke. The ports of Spakenburg are inextricably linked to the development of the village. Here were the botters with which the fishermen earned their living. Around 1892 the village had around 200 fishing vessels.
After the closure of the Zuiderzee in 1932, the fishing fleet went downhill. Nowadays there are still thirty botters in the old harbor. This is little compared to the past, but this is about half the current Dutch botter fleet. In the 1920s the fleet consisted of around two hundred ships, a large proportion of which ended up in the wreck cemetery off the coast of Spakenburg until the 1970s. Little remains of fishing; In the summer of 2008 the last professional fisherman from Spakenburg stopped. The village still lives largely from the fish trade or bread and cake.
Before the arrival of the Afsluitdijk, Spakenburg was in the wild Zuiderzee and flooding posed a threat to the fishing population. The last flood was in January 1916. During this disaster, a girl was born in the attic of the Vedder family, Wilhelmina Aartje. A few days later, Queen Wilhelmina visited Spakenburg. She also took Wilhelmina Aartje as godchild. Since then she has regularly visited Spakenburg, together with daughter Juliana. A statue of the queen stands at the head of the New Haven to commemorate the flood of 1916. Wilhelmina Aartje Vedder died at the age of 90 in 2006.
Spakenburg - View of the old Harbor and shipyard
The name Spakenburg appears for the first time in the 15th century. The fishing village was on the Zuiderzee and has had many floods. For that reason, the houses were initially built high against the dyke. The ports of Spakenburg are inextricably linked to the development of the village. Here were the botters with which the fishermen earned their living. Around 1892 the village had around 200 fishing vessels.
After the closure of the Zuiderzee in 1932, the fishing fleet went downhill. Nowadays there are still thirty botters in the old harbor. This is little compared to the past, but this is about half the current Dutch botter fleet. In the 1920s the fleet consisted of around two hundred ships, a large proportion of which ended up in the wreck cemetery off the coast of Spakenburg until the 1970s. Little remains of fishing; In the summer of 2008 the last professional fisherman from Spakenburg stopped. The village still lives largely from the fish trade or bread and cake.
Before the arrival of the Afsluitdijk, Spakenburg was in the wild Zuiderzee and flooding posed a threat to the fishing population. The last flood was in January 1916. During this disaster, a girl was born in the attic of the Vedder family, Wilhelmina Aartje. A few days later, Queen Wilhelmina visited Spakenburg. She also took Wilhelmina Aartje as godchild. Since then she has regularly visited Spakenburg, together with daughter Juliana. A statue of the queen stands at the head of the New Haven to commemorate the flood of 1916. Wilhelmina Aartje Vedder died at the age of 90 in 2006.