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Woodhenge, built by the landlord of the nearby legend that is The Square & Compass and subject to a planning row.
The Sassenpoort (English: Sassen gate) is a gatehouse in the citywall of Zwolle, Netherlands. It was built in 1409 out of dimension stone, mostly trachyte and tuff, and restoration work was done in 1893-1898. The gatehouse is a rijksmonument and is part of the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites.
History
The city of Zwolle experienced her highdays during the 15th century. It became a member of the Hanseatic League in 1407, and the city gates represent the wealth of this period. In 1893 the city government of Zwolle gave the Sassenpoort to the Dutch national government, as location to store the national archives. A function the building no longer serves. The building remains to this day property of the national government.
Building
In the period between 1893 and 1898 restoration work took place. The dormers were made, and a neogothic spire clock tower was installed, replacing an earlier 18th century spire. In between the corner towers is a machicolation. From holes in the floor of this outer work, boiling oil could be thrown at enemies.
National monument
The gatehouse is a rijksmonument since 13 February 1967 and is part of the Top 100 Dutch heritage sites. The national building service classifies the gate as "category I". This category contains monuments of which ownership and preservation by the state is considered of extraordinary cultural historic importance. In order to prevent damage by exhaust gasses, driving under the gate has been prohibited since 2010. The gate now serves as a pedestrian road.
In 2006 TPG Post brought out a stamp in the series Mooi Nederland (beautiful Netherlands) with an image of the Sassenpoort.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassenpoort
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About Zwolle
History of Zwolle
Archaeological findings indicate that the area surrounding Zwolle has been inhabited for a long time. A woodhenge that was found in the Zwolle-Zuid suburb in 1993 was dated to the Bronze Age period. During the Roman era, the area was inhabited by Salian Franks.
The modern city was founded around 800 A.D. by Frisian merchants and troops of Charlemagne. The name Zwolle is derived from the word Suolle, which means "hill" (cf. the English cognate verb "to swell"). This refers to an incline in the landscape between the four rivers surrounding the city, IJssel, Vecht, Aa and Zwarte Water. The hill was the only piece of land that would remain dry during the frequent floodings of the rivers. Zwolle was established on that incline.
On August 31, 1230, the bishop of Utrecht granted Zwolle city rights. Zwolle became a member of the Hanseatic league in 1294, and in 1361 joined the war between the Hanseatic League and Valdemar IV of Denmark. In the 1370 Treaty of Stralsund that ended the war, Zwolle was awarded a vitte, a trade colony, in Scania, then part of Denmark. Zwolle's golden age came in the 15th century. Between 1402 and 1450, the city's Gross Regional Product multiplied by about six.
In July 1324 and October 1361, regional noblemen set fire to Zwolle. In the 1324 fire, only nine buildings escaped the flames.
Zwolle was also, with Deventer, one of the centers of the Brethren of the Common Life, a monastic movement. Three miles from Zwolle, on a slight eminence called the Agnietenberg, (hill of St Agnes), once stood the Augustinian convent in which Thomas à Kempis spent the greatest part of his life and died (in 1471).
At least as early as 1911, Zwolle had a considerable trade by river, a large fish market, and the most important cattle market in the Netherlands after Rotterdam. The more important industries comprised cotton manufactures, iron works, boat-building, dyeing and bleaching, tanning, rope-making, and salt-making.
In World War II, Zwolle was single-handedly liberated from the Germans by Canadian soldier Léo Major. He was made an honorary citizen of Zwolle in 2005 and a street is named for him.(See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major)
Blauwvingers (Bluefingers)
Citizens of Zwolle are colloquially known as Blauwvingers (Bluefingers). This dates back to 1682, when the St Michael's church tower collapsed. The authorities were strapped for cash and saw no option but to sell the church bells to neighbouring city Kampen. To make sure that Kampen would not make too much profit from the deal, the local authorities asked a high price for the church bells. Kampen accepted, yet after the arrival of the bells it became clear, they were too damaged to be played. In revenge, Kampen paid in copper coins of four duiten (the equivalent of two-and-a-half cents). Zwolle distrusted Kampen and wanted to be sure they truly paid the entire price. After the rigorous counting of this vast amount of money, their fingers had turned blue from the copper.
A hill that was in constant use for 4,000 years from 5,500 ybp through to the first centuries AD. The view from the hill, which is set back from the flat lands between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is extraordinarily rich in geographical markers and a pyre as far away as the Isle of Arran's Goat fell can be seen in a panoramic that is truly coast to coast. The view remains alive today and a unique sense of place comes from a site visit.
Cairnpapple is a complex henge monument with two causways and whilst its current disposition does demonstrate the phases of its changing past, it is important to understand that Cairnpapple never looked as it does today. When compared with, for example 'Nether Largie South Cairn' in Kilmartin Glen, the work of Stuart Piggot (the archaeologist responsible for the current disposition) can seem a little, over the top and humid. I would add the site aside a list including the Avebury and the Woodhenge concrete bollards - 'in need of rethinking'.
The visitors centre is an archive Nissen hut from the Second World War and my visit of the hut was animated by the extraordinary Sam McAuliffe - as far as I understand a Paleontologist who just happens to be a whiz at prehistory.
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Bekijk ook de andere 2 foto's die hier bij horen en lees het verhaal. Ik vond het héél bijzonder.
Stonehenge is located on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, around 4m and 25 tons, are topped by connecting horizontal lintel stone. The inside ring is of smaller bluestones.
Stonehenge, built around 2500 BCE, is aligned with the movement of the sun. Such large structures were indeed possible only after agriculture, which allowed the surplus such that there can be a set of people not involved in food production. Stonehenge was more than a late neolithic calendar. It dictated when crops should be grown but, possibly, was also used for spiritual purposes.
The oldest structure with astronomical alignment is Nabta in the Nubian desert. See here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-alignments/
See also this list of archaeoastronomical sites by country on Wikipedia.
Two miles north of Stonehenge is Woodhenge. It has been theorised that the former was meant for dead people, while the latter was for alive ones. Woodhenge is where the celebrations occurred for life, fertility, etc. on summer solstice. See also: doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086592
La Spiaggia della Lecciona è una delle poche spiagge italiane che ancora preserva il suo stato naturale,arricchita da legni levigati dalla sabbia e sbiancati dai cristalli di sale ...
The Beach of Lecciona is one of the few Italian beaches that still preserves its natural state , covered with smoothed wood from the sand and bleached by salt crystals...
Stonehenge's quieter neighbour - originally made of timber posts, now represented by concrete posts in the original post holes.
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Shot by phone during hiking last summer. I did not know, Holland has a *henge too. A big surprise!
I must thank my lovely wife for the title suggestion.
I think these are the remains of an old pier at low tide.
A closer effort than my previous 'stumps' shot. Steetley beach, Hartlepool at sunset.
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I saw this in the BBC news website today, so decided to go for a drive out there this evening...its wonderful
Worth Matravers 31.07.2015
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-33714590
Villagers and tourists have started a petition opposing a council's decision for a wooden version of Stonehenge in Swanage, Dorset, to be taken down.
Pub landlord Charlie Newman built "Woodhenge", a sculpture of tree trunks, in a field by the Square and Compass pub at Worth Matravers.
Purbeck District Council said it must be taken down by 4 September as the structure opposes planning rules.
An online petition against the decision has attracted hundreds of signatures.
The petition is at www.change.org
I am also choosing this for my 52 weeks in 2015 project, for week thirty one, 30 July to 5 August 2015, as it has such a positive response.
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Prompt: portrait of a pagan woman at winter solstice poster Emily Balivet style --ar 8:10
Since prehistory, the winter solstice has been a significant time of year in many cultures and has been marked by festivals and rituals. It marked the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun; the gradual waning of daylight hours is reversed and begins to grow again. Some ancient monuments such as Newgrange, Stonehenge, and Cahokia Woodhenge are aligned with the sunrise or sunset on the winter solstice. My hubby and I will be celebrating it on the 21st with our private ritual.
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Woodhenge is a neolithic archaeological site just two miles (3.2 km) from Stonehenge that was probably built about 2300 BC; about the same time as, or slightly later than, construction of the stone circle at Stonehenge.
Visible earthworks at the site led it to be considered to be the remains of a large burial mound, surrounded by a bank and ditch almost completely destroyed by ploughing. However, aerial photography detected rings of dark spots in a crop of wheat indicating where wooden posts had once stood. Today, concrete markers replace the six concentric rings of timber posts which may have been freestanding or have once supported a ring-shaped building. Radio-carbon dating of artifacts indicates the site was still in use as late as 1800 BC.
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"Woodhenge" am Hasenberg.
In der Frühbronzezeit, um 1800 vor Christus, wurde auf dem Hasenberg bei Pevestorf ein Kreis aus 56 Holzpfosten errichtet.
Das Höhbecker "Woodhenge" gehört zur Aunjetitzer Kultur,die sivh südlich und südöstlich vom Höhbeck befindet.
Es könnte - vergleichbar etwa mit Stonehenge in England oder Goseck und Pömmelte-Zackmünde in Sachsen-Anhalt - als Observatorium zu astronomischen Beobachtungen genutzt worden sein.
Dieses herausragende bronzezeitliche Monument diente als Vorlage für den Nachbau, den sie sich an der Straße zwischen Gartow und Restorf anschauen können.
www.elbe-urlaub-hoehbeck.de/entdecken/restorf/woodhenge.html
Here's something quirky. The landlord of the Square and Compass pub in Worth Matravers, Dorset built this woodhenge a couple of years ago, and despite initial objections from the council it's been allowed to stay for the time being . It does look nice with the late evening sun behind it.
Amesbury, Wiltshire - Inghilterra.
23 aprile 2017
Scatto realizzato con la camera stenopeica Pinroll e carta Ilfospeed.
Sviluppo casalingo.
Maelmin Heritage trail Woodhenge. A reconstruction by Newcastle University of a Neolithic henge. Also on the site at Milfield, a reconstruction of a dark age hut...key available at Maelmin café, Milfield, just north of Wooler on the Coldstream
Well worth a visit!road.
Paid a quick visit in transit ... Walked from Woodhenge & drew it (over the fence) with my grandson ... He enjoyed sketching with the old ruin!
So good to see that it's still standing one year on!
See last year's photo in comments!
Worth Matravers 01.09.2016
June 21st, 2020
Tampere Finland
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Made from linden trees cut down to make way
for the new Tampere tram line.
Taken at Kimmeridge bay yesterday early hours there was about 4 or 5 other photographers all there for the milkyway shame the cloud and mist started to roll in but was lucky to get a small window of clear sky
I love the reflection in the water bear in mind i had to do 2 exposures one for the sky and a longer one to show more detail in the foreground with less noise
Got to speak with one friendly tog that was using a star tracker
for deep star imaging really cool guy and got to see some awesome work of his
Didn't make it to Stonehenge again this year! Never mind, we have Woodhenge nearby in the Purbecks at Worth Matravers.
Summer Solstice 21.06.2019
For my photo of the week, in my 52 weeks in 2019 project, week 25, 18 to 24 June2019
In the Meerser Koegriend along the Meuse, in the southeast of the Netherlands, there are 15 tree trunks suggesting that a forest has burned down here. The truth, however, is different.
The trees are 1400 to 1700 years old and are part of a new monument, Woodhenge. The trees came from under the gravel during excavations in Stevensweert. They symbolise the power of mother nature.
In der Frühbronzezeit, um 1800 vor Christus, wurde auf dem Hasenberg bei Pevestorf ein Kreis aus 56 Holzpfosten errichtet.Das Höhbecker "Woodhenge" gehört zur Aunjetitzer Kultur, deren Haupt-verbreitungs-gebiet sich südlich und südöstlich vom Höhbeck befindet. Es könnte - vergleichbar etwa mit Stonehenge in England oder Goseck und Pömmelte-Zackmünde in Sachsen-Anhalt - als Observatorium zu astronomischen Beobachtungen genutzt worden sein.
Our milky way above a dead forest, aka 'Woodhenge', near the banks of the river Maas, near the Dutch-Belgian border. Shooting conditions weren't optimal, with a high humidity in the sky (makes for less clear stars) and clouds blowing in from the south reflecting light pollution over Belgium.
...had no idea this monument is surrounded in controversy:
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14247330._Woodhenge__to_be...