Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie - Volume 6, Issue 4, 2021

Abstract The railway station as a historically layered landscape: continuity or trend break? During the 21st century, many major railway stations in the Netherlands were redeveloped. The national railway company (ns) claims to have found a method of redevelopment. The aim of this method is to create a recognizable identity for railway stations. The cultural history of railway station landscapes seems to have been largely negle Read More

Abstract The train is coming. Railways, estates and their owners (1832-1914) After several decades of private initiatives, the Dutch government took more control of the construction of railways from the 1860s. The north and east of the Netherlands became accessible with these State lines. The first route, between Arnhem and Zutphen, was opened in 1865. The necessary land was acquired amicably or expropriated. The loc Read More

Abstract What is the meaning of ‘rabat’ and since when were forests planted on rabatten? ‘Rabatten’ (singular ‘rabat’) are elongated and rather narrow ridges between ditches. The soil from the ditches is used to raise the ‘rabat’. The method is used in forestry to obtain dry strips on which the trees are planted. The ditches are used for drainage and soil improvement seems to have played a role as well. The phenomenon o Read More

Abstract A drawn map of the island De Beer A century ago nature reserve De Beer was situated opposite Hoek van Holland. The young (and later famous) Niko Tinbergen wrote a book in 1930 about this ‘bird island’. His younger friend Jan Joost ter Pelkwijk made a kind of mental map of De Beer in 1932 with more than 80 sketches on it. This map is compared with the 1938 topographical map.