Reconstructed Redoubt Buitendijks Slangwijk

Around 2006, this site was redeveloped. A so-called water storage area was created here to prevent flooding in the city. But digging could not simply begin. The clever engineer Menno van Coehoorn designed the Zuiderwaterlinie around 1700. Its purpose was to keep invaders out of Holland. The line probably ran through this area, among other places. And it is likely that a redoubt already stood here during the Eighty Years’ War. That is why archaeological research was carried out first. And indeed: researchers discovered a redoubt measuring forty by forty meters, right next to the Mark River and opposite the Little Redoubt in Terheijden. They also found pottery and pipe material dating from the late seventeenth century. In short: this is not just grassland, but a place rich in history.

After the redevelopment of the water storage area, the redoubt was made visible again through a reconstruction.

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