Monnickendam
The city belongs to Monnickendam Dutch municipality Waterland in the vicinity of Amsterdam. Monnickendam has about 10,000 inhabitants.
History
Was already in the 10th century here at the end of the moor by intersecting watercourse, a village that went down later by floods. Monnickendam probably originated before the 13th century by the damming of a small lake. The raised in 1355 to the city 's place after the Frisian monks who settled here named. Quickly, the city developed into a central fishing port of Zuiderzeefischerei. The city was besieged and occupied several times despite their walls. In the early 15th century a siege should be gone hand in hand with a bloodbath so that it ( " Wimmerergraben " ) is still a street name Kermersgracht. In the 16th and 17th century, the Baltic trade was significant. The reclamation of the Zuiderzee was the end of the fishing there.
The fact that there was already environmental problems in the 17th and 18th centuries, the name of a water body testifies to the northwest of downtown Monnickendamer: Obscene Vuil ( " Stinkdreck "). In Graft- De Rijp many residents were engaged in whaling at that time. The Tran was processed after the return of whaling ships in Holland, a craft that originated in the Übele odors. This smelly waste products were dumped on to certain fields or even into the water. The channel section between De Rijp and the Zuiderzee in Monnickendam reason was given this name. Today is no trace of this water pollution.
Historical figure
Hermann Jung, famous preacher of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Born probably in Brokreihe [ North ], now the district of Hodorf (Holstein), 1608 (or 1609). Buried in Monnickendam June 7, 1678. Friend of Johann Amos Comenius, Philipp Jacob Spener correspondent. Hermann Jung was the preacher of the small Lutheran congregation in Monnickendam an important representatives of early Lutheran pietism.