De Ronde Venen
( Listen? / I ) De Ronde veins is a municipality in the Netherlands, Utrecht.
Location and economic
The community is located 10 to 15 kilometers south of Amsterdam and 20 km north west of Utrecht. East of Vinkeveen runs the A2 Utrecht - Amsterdam motorway. Public transport is hardly in the community. Buses to Uithoorn and Utrecht. The main sources of income in De Ronde veins are tourism (water sports on the lakes ) and livestock. Also there are many commuters who have a job in Amsterdam, Hilversum and Utrecht.
Places
De Ronde veins consists of the following villages; between brackets the possible population ( 2005):
- Abcoude
- Amstelhoek (1,000)
- Baambrugge
- De Hoef (900)
- Mijdrecht ( 16,600 ): Seat of the municipality
- Stokkelaarsbrug
- Vinkeveen ( 8,400 )
- Waverveen ( 800 )
- Wilnis ( 6,600 )
History
De Ronde veins is a typical Dutch deep bog. The German Emperor Otto I gave the area around Wilnis, Mijdrecht Vinkeveen and in 953 the bishop of Utrecht. Bishop Conrad of Utrecht gave the then not yet reclaimed bog made 1085 the Brothers of St. John's Church of Utrecht. Then began the first tentative attempts here to farm. The area is surrounded almost circular and small rivers. There emerged fields, surrounded by Entwasserungsgräben which were wider at the edge of the circle as to the interior of the circle towards. They had about the form of cuts of a round cake. This division of the plot is still visible when observing the area from the air. When the drained soil started to set, the water level rose and country was weggegraben begun in 1400 by the extraction of peat, floods were a serious and growing problem. Only in the 19th century, were created as a polder, the water one was Lord returns. The Vinkeveense plassen were not drained. The final reclamation was in 1926, but the peat did not disappear until finally around 1970. On March 24, 1944 committed resistance fighter against the then German occupiers a successful raid on the rationing office so many submersion ration cards and therefore could get food. A memorial in the village still remembers it. The village Mijdrecht knew after about 1950 a temporary economic prosperity as an industrial center.
Tourism
Vinkeveen is known for the water sports tourism on the lakes ( Vinkeveense plassen ). The village has two marinas, many campsites, a swimming pool, several restaurants, etc. The " Vinkeveense plassen " are an excellent fishing area, especially walleye and pike are to catch the noble specimens ( about 100 cm). Because of that took place in recent years overfishing consist catch limits. It is strictly controlled.
Twinning
- Kolin (Czech Republic)
- Gransee ( Germany )