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Nieuwveen
The eighteenth century: decline

In the second half of the 1700s

The source says "omstreeks", "begin" or "na" — around, early in, or after: the year is not exact.

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 →

Provenance This comes from the series J.J. Roovers set down up to 1970. The wording here is this site’s own. View the source

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Nieuwveen (village centre)

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c. 1050–1100 approximate

Around the eleventh century

The first inhabitants settle in the area around Nieuwveen. They begin draining the peat soil and bringing it into cultivation, so that it slowly becomes fit for arable farming and cattle.

Origins and the Middle Ages reclamation peat Researched later
1878

On 20 January 1878

A great fire strikes the village. On what is now the A.H. Kooistrastraat and in the Kerkstraat, two substantial farms, a café and some ten houses are lost, and with them a large part of the municipal archive.

The drainage and the rebuilding fire disaster From the typed document