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What’s more interesting than a building you don’t understand at first sight? While driving along the riverdikes along the Hollandsche IJssel between Nieuwerkerk and Capelle, we stumbled upon this strange stone walls. At first sight they looked and felt like castle ruins. But the embrasures were placed at very strange heights. While we tried to uncover it’s mysteries, we noticed three similar structures were placed next to it, each about ten meters apart from each other. At the last one we found an information panel. In the 17th en 18th century stone bricks were baked at this site. Near this spot clay was abundant and these buildings actually were ovens and the embrasures were used to shove the clay bricks in the oven and heat them. These bricks then were used as ballast in the large wooden merchantships of the West- and East India Companies. In the colonies the bricks were used to make large fortresses, such as Fort Negombo in Ceylon or Kasteel De Goede Hoop in current Capetown, South Africa. Also churches and Synagoges were build. In Manhattan these bricks were used to build Fort Amsterdam, which would become the famous Fort George after Nieuw-amsterdam would become New York. One ship would need about 130.000 bricks as ballast. These IJsselsteentjes can be still found in buildings in Oman, Sri Lanka, Dutch Antilles, Surinam, India, Indonesia and Australia. This really was history found! #voc #wic #nieuwerkerkaandenijssel #capelleaandenijssel #verenigdeoostindischecompagnie #westindischecompagnie #goudeneeuw #srilanka #ceylon #india #australia #brasil ##suriname #nederlandseantillen #newyork #nieuwamsterdam #manhattan #fortgeorge #negombo #kasteeldegoedehoop #capetown #southafrica #suidafrika #eropuit #eropuitineigenland #bestofthenetherlands #ruins #eropuitmetkinderen #historyfound (bij Klein Hitland, Steenovens)
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Onze zoon is gek op ‘piratenschepen’. Langzaam begint hij te leren dat niet ieder schip van hout een piratenschip is, maar dat hier vaak hele andere historische verhalen achter zitten. Op Texel genoot hij van het prachtige diorama in museum Kaap Skil. Via een speciale kijker zijn de verhalen te beleven die schuilen achter die houten schepen die in de 16e, 17e en 18e eeuw de wereldzeeën hebben bevaren in de tijd dat Nederland een van de meest bepalende zeevarende landen was. Wat een tof museum en wat een leerzame expositie! Uiteraard gaf InspectJurre (stem via de link in de bio) dan ook een hoog cijfer aan @kaapskil in de @museumkids_nl competitie! ————— Our son loves ‘pirate ships’. He is now starting to learn that not every wooden vessel was one. The great exposition at museum Kaap Skil helped him learn more. During the 16th, 17th and 18th century Dutch ships sailed the world’s oceans searching for wealth to be gained. The cellar of this museum has a great expo to help and learn about everything that had to do with this Age. #texel #museumkids #museum #voc #wic #verenigdeoostindischecompagnie #westindischecompagnie #kaapskil #texelpics #noordsecompagnie #walvisvaart #slavernij #handel #specerijen #schepen #houtenschepen #zeilschepen #goudeneeuw #dutchgoldenage #noordholland #eropuit #eropuitmetkinderen #piraten #pirates #nederlandheeftalles #diorama #holland #waddeneiland #tvtas #historyfound (bij Museum Kaap Skil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU8X-7hMemZ/?utm_medium=tumblr