Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie - Volume 4, Issue 1, 2019

Historical surface irrigation of pastures in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant: visible traces of a failed experiment In the second half of the 19th century, some major changes occurred in the water management of the eastern and southern provinces of the Netherlands. Unlike the low-lying western parts of the Netherlands which were characterised by polders and had a long history of formal water boards, the higher easter Read More

Secretly watching the Russians. Cold War aircraft observation posts on existing buildings During the 1950s a network of aircraft observation post was built in The Netherlands, as a detection/observation system against low-flying hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Preferably, these were placed on highrise buildings. 134 of these 276 observation posts were built on existing buildings, on factories, mills, water towers, monas Read More

Destroyed and destructed. A multidisciplinary study of the disappeared village of Coxyde In the high Middle Ages the village of Coxyde developed and joined the economic success of the Zwin trade during the late medieval period. Due to a combination of factors it shrank during the 15th and 16th centuries and is abandoned with the inundations during the Eighty Years’ War. A multidisciplinary study enabled to trace the locatio Read More

Groves in ‘Het Groene Hart’: an inventory In the rural area in the middle of the heaviest urbanized area in the Netherlands, called Groene Hart (‘Green Heart’), a large number of small patches of woodland occur. These groves have been utilized by farmers during centuries for their wood supply. Based on the occurrence of wooded patches of land on historic maps from the end of the 19th century and still present on the re Read More