BOTTER YARD at SPAKENBURG, Netherlands

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BOTTER YARD at SPAKENBURG, Netherlands

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Sep 04, 2017 9:12 pm

The Netherlands issued in 2002 a sheet with stamps of the Industrial Heritage of the country, one stamp has a maritime theme.

It shows us the botter-yard of Scheepswerf Nieuwboer in Spakenburg on the stamp is given the year 1669, but already in 1583 it is given that some shipbuilding took place there. Some botters are depict on the stamp, the depicted botters are not identified. http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... ter#p11282

For centuries the botter-yard determines the view of Spakenburg. For a long time Spakenburg was a centre of a fishing fleet, fishing on the Zuiderzee (now Ijsselmeer) many botters were built and maintained there.
1829 The yard was bought by the Nieuwboer family which till 1992 were the owners.
But after the Zuiderzee was closed with a dike in 1932 (Afsluitdijk) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afsluitdijk First fishing in the new formed Ijsselmeer remained, also repair on the existing fleet, but slowly the fish stock decreased with less work in the fishing industry. Repairs on the vessels decreased and newbuilding came to a standstill.
In the sixties the tide turned when lovers for old wooden ships were attracted to the botter as a pleasure craft and repair work for the yard on the existing botters came forward, even newbuilding took place.
But the work was insufficient for the yard to proceed in the end.
1992 The botter-yard was transferred to the Foundation Botter Yard Spakenburg, who restored the yard to her old glory and that it is properly maintained.

The URL below has a story on the botters and shipyard
http://www.cometosea.us/albums/Publicat ... WB2012.pdf

Netherland 2002 0.39Euro sg?, scott?
Sources various websites.
Attachments
2002 botteryard.png

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