Renze
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Actually it all comes down to the same:
Holland = hollow land, it slopes down into the sea, under sea level (the polders) and up again at the coast side dunes.
Nederland, neder means down. Downed land, it is partially below the sea level.
About Dutch, i never understood that, because Germans say they're "Deutsch" so actually saying a Hollander is Dutch, isnt right i think... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif but as said, i dont know where the Americans picked that word from...
I'm from Overijssel, central east part. It's on the high sandy soils, in my area the only height fluctuations you see are sand dunes from the 17th century when farmers dug off all th heather sods to use as manure on their fields. The fields got higher during many years, up to 3 foot over the original level. The heather fields were left naked, exposed to the wind, that blew sand into dunes at some places. There are 2 of those dunes in a 1 km radius of my home, and about 3 km away there is a sahara landscape which after some years, grew over with heather again.
To prevent good farm soils being buried under sand storms, some local rulers and barons decided to plant pines all over the area. They planted it into a star figure with a center where 7 roads met. That's the starwood locally referred to as steernbos...
My great grandfather built our farm by removing those 150 year old planted trees again, at around 1900.
As you can imagine, the soil differs a lot in our river delta country. 10 km away from here, the soil turns into peat bog, river clay, or loam.
Holland = hollow land, it slopes down into the sea, under sea level (the polders) and up again at the coast side dunes.
Nederland, neder means down. Downed land, it is partially below the sea level.
About Dutch, i never understood that, because Germans say they're "Deutsch" so actually saying a Hollander is Dutch, isnt right i think... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif but as said, i dont know where the Americans picked that word from...
I'm from Overijssel, central east part. It's on the high sandy soils, in my area the only height fluctuations you see are sand dunes from the 17th century when farmers dug off all th heather sods to use as manure on their fields. The fields got higher during many years, up to 3 foot over the original level. The heather fields were left naked, exposed to the wind, that blew sand into dunes at some places. There are 2 of those dunes in a 1 km radius of my home, and about 3 km away there is a sahara landscape which after some years, grew over with heather again.
To prevent good farm soils being buried under sand storms, some local rulers and barons decided to plant pines all over the area. They planted it into a star figure with a center where 7 roads met. That's the starwood locally referred to as steernbos...
My great grandfather built our farm by removing those 150 year old planted trees again, at around 1900.
As you can imagine, the soil differs a lot in our river delta country. 10 km away from here, the soil turns into peat bog, river clay, or loam.