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Nieuwveen
The twentieth century up to the war

In the year 1922

Electricity reaches Nieuwveen for the first time. Candles and paraffin lamps disappear; electric motors make their entrance.

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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1867

In 1867

The village gets its first public street lighting: paraffin lanterns. A stubborn fight in the gemeenteraad, the municipal council, came first, and among the population too those for and against were sharply opposed.

The drainage and the rebuilding street lighting public utilities From the typed document
1932

In 1932

Drinking water now comes from the mains, supplied by De Elf Gemeenten at Woerden. Rainwater and ditch water fall out of use.

The twentieth century up to the war drinking water public utilities From the typed document
1953

In 1953

The Rijkstelefoon, the state telephone service, is automated in Nieuwveen under the dialling code 01723.
The first sub-post office had already opened in 1851, at the house of mayor S. van Driel on what is now the A.H. Kooistrastraat, beside the Raadhuis, in a room that served as the municipal office. He was the first kantoorhouder, office-keeper, though the title at the time was still brievengaarder, letter-gatherer.

After 1945 telephone post public utilities From the typed document
1970

And then lastly in 1970

Nieuwveen is connected to the national mains gas network. The coal stoves used from of old, and the oil stoves burning domestic heating oil that had come into use alongside them, are cleared out in great numbers; bottled gas (Butagas) for heating goes out of date.
On the Jaagpad along the Amstel, mains gas is not yet available.

Roovers' series stops here. Everything after this comes from other sources.

After 1945 mains gas public utilities From the typed document