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The Fassaat

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The Fassaat

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    August 13, 2023

    Historical location: In 1738, sworn land surveyor Vandevelde drew this map showing the situation in Basel and Rupelmonde after the great flood of 1715 and the repair of the dikes in 1718. He called this triangular piece of land next to Kallebeek "Fasseyt". An understandable mistake. The Bazelers called this piece the "Fassaat" and he thought that was dialect for Fasseyt. but that's not how this area got its name.
    At the time of the reclamation in the 12th and 13th centuries, this triangle was not reclaimed, but it was provided with a canal that ran from the Scheldt inland to the point of the triangle to load and unload ships there, closer to the village of Basel in the castle of Wissekerke. "Fossa" and "fossatum" means in Latin: with a moat. Fossatum became Fossate and finally Fassate. Hence comes the name of this historic location.

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