Schie

Differences is the name of four watercourses in the vicinity of the Nederlandse Overschie. These are the Delfthavense rail, the rail Delftse that Rotterdamse rail and the rail Schiedamse. All of these names are created by the medieval disputes over the customs rights of Rotterdam, Delft and Schiedam.

Origin

Originally, the rail was a small, swampy waters which at today Overschie in the former Merwede (now Nieuwe Maas ) resulted. In the established along this stream of water running rail Delf place was called. This suggests that he was artificially created in part. Probably found this works in Roman times instead of, as well as the nearby canal was dug by Corbulo. Archaeological excavations suggest that the north of Delft preferred continuation of the rail, the Vliet, partly coincides with the historic canal.

Middle Ages

Around 1150 the rail Lands Hoge Zeedijk was applied along the Merwede. By poldering the mouth of the slide pushed to the south. The river was abgedammt at the mouth and the resulting there village was named Schiedam. Over time, Schiedam was an important city because it. Customs Rights vessel traffic on the rail to Delft and beyond had

1280 ( Hoogheemradschap ) Delfland was created polders Vaart for the drainage of the eastern municipalities of the Water Board. This was the direct connection to the former Merwede to Schiedam around.

Political rivalries between various feudal lords and the rival cities of Delft, Rotterdam and Schiedam meant that between 1343 and Rotterdam Overschie a canal was built. Thus, the power Schiedams was broken on vessel traffic. The slide is now divided in Overschie in the Rotterdamse rail and the original Schiedamse differences.

In 1389, the city of Delft by Duke Albrecht I (Bavaria), Count of Holland and Zeeland, the approval of a separate channel for Merwede got. For the first part of the channel has been widened Delf. From then on, the water was more often referred to as Delftse differences. The second part of the channel was applied between Overschie and the Merwede, and Delft was at its mouth its own port: Delfshaven. The watercourse was called Delfhavense differences.

Presence

Since 1893, the Delftse rail is part of an even larger project, the Rhine - Schie canal, which runs until after suffering and to, in some part of the Vliet. Since the rail is a few meters higher than the pasture, ran in 1903, yet in a dike breach near Kandelaar, the whole channel.

From the Rotterdamse rail is not much left after the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940 and 1942, she was filled with debris.

• River in Europe
• River in the Netherlands
• Channel in the Netherlands
• Geography (Rotterdam)
• Rhine river system
• Geography ( South Holland)
• Delft
• Midden- Delfland
• Schiedam