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Voornse Canal

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Voornse Canal

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Location: Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands

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1. Voornse Canal – Plas van Heenvliet loop from Zwartewaal

5.07km

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2. Hartel Canal – Museum Town Hall Geervliet loop from Spijkenisse Centrum

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3. Heenvliet Town Center – City Pump of Brielle loop from Brielle

23.5km

05:57

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

July 5, 2021

The Canal through Voorne (also: Voorne canal) is a canal in the Dutch province of South Holland on Voorne-Putten. It was dug between Hellevoetsluis and the village of Nieuwesluis that disappeared in the 1960s and was completed in 1829.

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

July 5, 2021

Voornse Canal. 't Voertje also tries to fish a competition match in this famous competition water in the spring. The Voornse canal is equipped with wooden single fishing piers, on which the swims are put out. Due to the overhanging reed, you still have to be very careful when you are setting up your place or are going to make a sanitary stop.

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

July 5, 2021

The Canal through Voorne was once a lifeline for Rotterdam. On November 8, 1830, the canal was opened. More than forty years later it lost that function. The Nieuwe Waterweg became the gateway to Rotterdam and the ports for ships.

The silting up of the Maas meant that Rotterdam was difficult to reach from the sea. Bob Benschop of the Voorne-Putten Regional Archives: "Over time, even the island of Rozenburg was created as a sandbank."

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Around the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Maas estuary had become so shallow that ships with a deep draft could no longer reach Rotterdam via this route. They had to make a detour through the Haringvliet, the Hollands Diep, the Dordsche Kil, the Oude Maas and finally the Nieuwe Maas.

That route took the sailing ships days. "They always had to wait for the right current and wind direction," says Benschop. Shiploads sometimes had to be transferred to smaller ships, which also cost time and money.

In 1822, the director of the Marinewerf in Rotterdam devised the plan for the construction of the ten kilometer long canal across the island of Voorne. This would shorten the distance by up to a third and reduce the sailing time to half a day.

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Location: Brielle, South Holland, Netherlands

Voornse Canal

1. Voornse Canal – Plas van Heenvliet loop from Zwartewaal

2. Hartel Canal – Museum Town Hall Geervliet loop from Spijkenisse Centrum

3. Heenvliet Town Center – City Pump of Brielle loop from Brielle

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