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Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie - Volume 9, Issue 2, 2024
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2024
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Een nieuwe landschapskaart van Nederland: voorgeschiedenis en uitgangspunten
Authors: Theo Spek & Menne KosianAbstractA new landscape map of The Netherlands: previous history and basic principles
Since the late 19th century numerous Dutch geographers have made landscape typologies of The Netherlands. In 1951 the first landscape map of The Netherlands was published by Hendrik Keuning, depicting eleven landscape types and seven subtypes. Additional maps were made by Bijhouwer (1971), Visscher (1972) and the Working Group of Landscape Typology (1986). All map legends were based on soil types on the first level and cultural landscape characteristics on the second level. This paper describes a new landscape map of The Netherlands that will be published in a handbook called Landscapes of The Netherlands. Compared to former maps several landscapes have been split up into various regional landscape types, such as the sandy landscapes, marine clay landscapes, peat landscapes and river landscapes. Due to new scientific insights into the decay of peat in several regions of the Netherlands the mapping of medieval peat reclamation landscapes is more extensive on the new map.
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Een keten aan randmeren
More LessAbstractA chain of bordering lakes
The creation of the waters around Flevoland
In the 19th century, the Dutch created land in the former Zuiderzee. The twelfth province of the Netherlands, Flevoland, was originally planned to be completely attached to the old land that surrounded it. But due to a much lower location of the new polder compared to the old land, the groundwater flowed naturally towards Flevoland. The damage the subsequent desiccation caused to the fields surrounding the Noordoostpolder led to the revision of the original plans. Flevoland was now separated from the old land by a series of bordering lakes, serving as a buffer to keep the groundwater level intact. The story of how these lakes came into being has not yet been explored, while it is a very fascinating piece of Dutch history. The bordering lakes now serve an important hydraulic function. They have also developed into a diverse recreational and natural zone right in the heart of the Netherlands.
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