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History comes alive in the Zuiderzee village! Our role players are excited to tell you about their crafts and life in the past.
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The housemaid
Role players act out the life of a maid in IJsselmuiden. One of the dwellings on the town canal is occupied by Aalsje Tol, a maid. Aalsje is busy all day polishing, cleaning windows, sweeping the pavement and preparing the meals.
Find out how Aalsje keeps the household running and give her a hand beating the carpets or polishing the brass and copper. Feel free to ask Aalsje after all the things she experiences as a maid and she will be happy to tell you.
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The rag and bone man
Role players enact the life of a rag and bone man in Harderwijk in bygone days. The rag and bone man, Evert Petersen, trudges along the houses with his cart. In his warehouse, he separates the rags according to colour. What can he sell? To whom? Help the rag and bone man to sort, tear and weigh the rags and tatters. You can also ask Evert all kinds of questions about his trade and eke out his stories. You can become acquainted with his everyday habits and traditions that have been passed on from generation to generation.
Urk 1905
A role-play of life on Urk in 1905 is enacted on the Urker Bult (Urk Rise). The Urker Bult consists of a street with a number of original houses that came from the former island of Urk in the Zuiderzee. A number of houses are inhabited by Riekelt and Jannetje Weerstand, Hiligje Post, Marretje Romkes and Lubbert Hoefnagel. Feel free to ask the ‘residents’ what they experience on Urk, and they will be glad to tell you.
Prior to the construction of the Noordoostpolder (North-east polder), Urk was an island in the Zuiderzee. Originally it was much larger. The boulderclay hump of land was plagued by storms and erosion on several occasions. Finally, an area of eighty hectares remained that lay a few metres above sea level. Agriculture was impossible, at least not on a large scale. For that reason, most Urk people were fishers or worked in the fish-processing industry. After the closure of the Zuiderzee, the Urk fishers took to the North Sea.