{"id":24673,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/dev-en\/antiek\/uncategorized\/haarlemmermeer-leidsemeer-schenk\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:29:20","slug":"haarlemmermeer-leidsemeer-schenk","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/maps\/maps-the-netherlands\/north-holland\/haarlemmermeer-leidsemeer-schenk\/","title":{"rendered":"Haarlemmermeer, Leidsemeer &#8211; Schenk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"50\"><strong>TO TAME THE FURY OF THE HAARLEM AND LEIDEN LAKES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kaart waar in is aftekent, een Concept Uytwatering in de Noord Zee omtrent Catwijk&#8221;ter ontlasting van Rijnlands boezem water.&#8221; [Map showing a proposed drainage into the North Sea near Katwijk&#8230; for the relief of Rijnland\u2019s polder waters.] Copper engraving published by <strong>Leonardus Schenk<\/strong> in <strong>1769<\/strong>. With original hand colouring. Plate size: 21.6 \u00d7 31.7 cm.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"657\">Although large-scale lake reclamation projects had already been carried out in North Holland during the seventeenth century, the plan to drain the ever-expanding Haarlemmermeer was postponed for many decades. Rivalry between Haarlem and Leiden \u2014 the latter reluctant to lose the lucrative fishing rights to the vast inland sea \u2014 prevented the execution of earlier proposals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"1064\">In 1769, Dirk Klinkenberg and Barend Ariesz. Goudriaan presented a plan to drain the lake by means of an outfall at Katwijk. According to this scheme, 112 windmills would pump the lake dry, after which 50 additional mills would discharge the water from Rijnland\u2019s drainage basin into the sea. The costs for reclaiming the 19,000 <em data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"997\">bunders<\/em> (c. 19,000 hectares) were estimated at approximately \u01929,000,000.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1218\">The cartouche of the map states that it was issued as an appendix to the proposal concerning \u201cthe taming of the fury of the Haarlem and Leiden lakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1220\" data-end=\"1391\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">After a violent storm in 1836 drove the waters as far as Amsterdam and Leiden, it was finally decided to drain the Haarlemmermeer \u2014 a task completed between 1848 and 1852.<\/p>\n<p>Price 375,-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TO TAME THE FURY OF THE HAARLEM AND LEIDEN LAKES &#8220;Kaart waar in is aftekent, een Concept Uytwatering in de Noord Zee omtrent Catwijk&#8221;ter ontlasting van Rijnlands boezem water.&#8221; [Map showing a proposed drainage into the North Sea near Katwijk&#8230; for the relief of Rijnland\u2019s polder waters.] Copper engraving published by Leonardus Schenk in 1769. 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