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Nieuwveen
The eighteenth century: decline

From around 1750 to 1800

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

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 →

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. 1962 approximate

Beginning with the year 1962

More and more commuters settle in the Schoterveld expansion plan. They buy houses of their own, built with a state grant or in the private sector without government support. The make-up of Nieuwveen's population changes profoundly as a result.

After 1945 commuters population From the typed document
1969

On 14 November 1969

Nieuwveen reaches 3000 inhabitants. That includes the residents of the Johannes Stichting and Huize St. Ursula: together some 800 people, patients and nursing staff. Both institutions had grown strongly in those years and become known nationally.

After 1945 population From the typed document
1988

On 1 January 1988

Nieuwveen numbers 3,224 inhabitants over an area of 863 hectares.
That is 224 more than the 3,000 of 1969, but the village itself grew by more than that difference suggests: the 1969 figure still counted the roughly 800 patients and nursing staff of the two institutions, and the Johannes Stichting left Nieuwveen in 1974.

From a village with its own municipality to a settlement of Nieuwkoop population Researched later