1700 – 1800
6 events
The water of the peat lakes swallows the neighbouring village of Schoot and the Uiterbuurt. Nieuwveen escapes by a hair.
Rijnland in 1615, with Nieuwveen and Nieuwkoop. The map is nearly a century older than the entry beside it, and shows the area before the water had taken so much of the land. View larger → Nieuwveen is no longer governed directly. The Counts of Holland did so first, then — until 1724 — the States of Holland.
Nieuwveen in the Atlas Schoemaker, eighteenth century — the village as a draughtsman saw it, in the century it was sold as a manor. View larger → For f 15,500,– the heerlijkheid of Nieuwveen — a manorial lordship, carrying rights of jurisdiction and appointment — passes from the States of Holland to the City of Haarlem.
Gerrit Willem van der Laan, lord of the manor, transfers the neighbouring ambachtsheerlijkheid of De Uiterbuurt to the City of Haarlem. From this comes the name Nieuwveen met den Uiterbuurt.
The polders under Kalslagen, Nieuwveen and de Uiterbuurt. De Uiterbuurt, sold as a manor in the entry beside this, is named on the map. View larger → The peat lakes keep growing and there is less and less to be earned in the village. Nieuwveen falls into crisis and many peat workers are left without work. By the end of the eighteenth century barely more than 500 people live there.
“A new drawing towards the drainage of the peat-dug lands”, 1742. The plan to push the water back is nearly sixty years older than the drainage itself. View larger → The corn mill De Fortuijn is put up on what is now the Uiterbuurtweg.
A corn mill in Nieuwveen, from a photograph album. Whether this is “De Fortuijn”, raised in the entry beside it, the source does not say. View larger → 