Zaanse Schans is an open-air museum in the vicinity of Amsterdam, near the city of Zaandam. There are about 30 real Dutch houses collected throughout the country, several museums, a farm and 10 working mills. The Zaanse Schans is a very popular tourist destination. Tourists visiting Holland are happy to come to this ethno-village in order to better understand the traditions of the Dutch village.
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Basic Moments
In the village of Zaanse Schans, an unforgettable atmosphere of the past of Holland reigns: the blades of ancient mills are quietly fastened together, it smells of freshly baked bread, a shoemaker knocks in the klomp workshop, a cheese dairy is always full of visitors. Village houses, painted green, resemble pictures, with embroidered curtains, flowers on the windows, wicker furniture in the front gardens. Snow-white geese slowly cross the street, and fat sheep graze in the meadows. The Zaanse Schans even has its own small, almost toy-like, but drawbridge.
This is a typical Dutch village from the past, and at the same time it is real, despite the fact that it has the status of a museum. In the 60s of the last century, in the vicinity of the small town of Zaandam, not far from Amsterdam, mills and houses that have been preserved in the country since the 17th-18th centuries, which are examples of wooden architecture, were brought. Workshops, museums, souvenir shops were opened. But at the same time, Zaanse Schans is a real village where people live. Whether it is easy to live in a museum that is visited by thousands of tourists every year is known only to them.
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Attractions Zaanse Schans
Today, the Zaanse Schans is one of the brightest popular attractions, attracting tourists from all over the world. The unique village in which people live and work is a unique opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of a Dutch village of the 17th-18th centuries, to see the ancient crafts that brought fame to Holland.
Tourists can visit six working mills, two of which press oil, two are sawmills, mustard and dye mills.
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Mills for Holland - a cult. In the 17th century, the mills pulled out their entire production life on their blades. They ground everything: spices, grain, mustard, irrigated and drained the land. The mills that can be seen in the village of Zaanse Schans are unique. All of them have been restored and are working. The oldest exhibits deserve special attention. Mill "De Huisman", built in 1780 and now, as in the old days, grinds mustard.
"Koshka" is the only mill in the world today that produces paint. Her date of birth is 1646, and she was originally an oil mill. Her age, "De Oyfar" until 1916, she worked on wind energy, modernized quite recently. The De Zucker Mill produces linseed, rapeseed and vegetable oils. "De Gekronde Pulenberg" mini-sawmill. Like all other mills, it was practically destroyed by fire and after restoration, it was not possible to get it working for a very long time due to improper assembly.
In addition to mills, old warehouses and houses of local residents, tourists are offered to visit unique workshops that have preserved the traditions of old crafts for several centuries.