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September 1, 2013 12:13 PM   Subscribe

Buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction is a map worth getting lost in.
posted by oulipian (19 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
What an awesome map. The detail is superb, with even the depiction of outbuildings.
posted by Thing at 12:32 PM on September 1, 2013


This is great. But my hometown is even younger than I expected.
posted by IAr at 12:37 PM on September 1, 2013




Here you can see precisely where the German bombs fell in Rotterdam.
posted by mahershalal at 12:42 PM on September 1, 2013 [1 favorite]


As well as my own house, which turns out to date back to 1921, which I already known because we've just gotten notice from the city council they want to put it on the city monuments list, making it a listed, graded building.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:42 PM on September 1, 2013 [1 favorite]


But my hometown is even younger than I expected.

Living in the polders by any chance?
posted by MartinWisse at 12:43 PM on September 1, 2013


Hmm, my house is from 1927. I thought it would be older.
posted by Pendragon at 12:44 PM on September 1, 2013


Here you can see precisely where the German bombs fell in Rotterdam.

Compared to the old centre of Amsterdam
posted by PaulZ at 12:45 PM on September 1, 2013


If you zoom out, it looks like stars. If you zoom in, it looks like LCARS.
posted by oulipian at 12:47 PM on September 1, 2013 [1 favorite]


Here you can see precisely where the German bombs fell in Rotterdam.

Middelburg, bombed a few days after Rotterdam as the province of Zeeland hadn't surrendered yet due to the French troops present, was luckier. Much of the old centre was bombed and rebuild during and after the war, but the main buildings like the abbey survived.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:49 PM on September 1, 2013


Living in the polders by any chance?

Yes, but somehow I always had the idea that the strip of buildings along the Oude Rijn was much older.
posted by IAr at 12:52 PM on September 1, 2013


So yeah, my house was built in 1899. Says so on the front of the building, too, so they got that right.
posted by prolific at 1:03 PM on September 1, 2013


Here you can see precisely where the German bombs fell in Rotterdam.

And here you can see where the American bombs fell in Nijmegen.
posted by Sourisnoire at 1:25 PM on September 1, 2013


Seems like some data problems, all the old buildings around the canals in Amsterdam are listed as constructed in 1005... I guess this just means "really old"?
posted by houshuang at 1:54 PM on September 1, 2013


Construction dates for the old houses are a little screwy. Ours is also listed as 1005, but we're pretty sure it's from 1600.
posted by daveje at 1:56 PM on September 1, 2013


Yay, the horrible/lovely apartment where I used to live in Utrecht is from 1852.
posted by Omon Ra at 3:43 PM on September 1, 2013


Speaking of data problems:
On February 22 1994 the city of Nijmegen was severely injured by thousands of bombs. American pilots got disorientated and thought they bombed the German city of Kleve
posted by dhartung at 4:21 PM on September 1, 2013 [1 favorite]


oh 1895! my old flat.
posted by mary8nne at 3:32 AM on September 2, 2013


Got mine exactly right - 1910. Oddly, we had to pull the Provincial records to find that; the gemeente did not have them.
posted by digitalprimate at 4:55 AM on September 2, 2013


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