Qualla: Enkhuizen https://qualla.com/enkhuizen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:33 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Enkhuizen https://qualla.com/enkhuizen Enkhuizen: Introduction https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ Silt was the kindest enemy a city ever had. In the mid-17th century Enkhuizen sat at the peak of Dutch maritime power, a VOC chartered harbour shipping spices home from the East Indies alongside Amsterdam and Hoorn. Then the channels filled in. Trade migrated south. The wharves emptied. What stayed behind, because there was no fresh money to tear it down, was the city itself - over 360 national monuments worth of it. Walk Westerstraat today and the prosperity that abandoned Enkhuizen three hundred years ago is still visible in the stepped gables, the ornate brickwork, and the heavy wooden warehouse doors that once swung open for Asian cargo.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/g/enkhuizen-wp/u17g-enkhuizen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Enkhuizen: Haringdonk https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ During Carnival the city renames itself. The signs go up, the parade winds through the old streets, and Enkhuizen briefly answers to Haringdonk - herring-town. It is not arbitrary nostalgia. Long before the Dutch East India Company arrived in 1602, this was a herring port, its bo...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/g/enkhuizen-wp/u17g-enkhuizen-haringdonk.mp3 0:06 2 full Enkhuizen: The Peperhuis https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ On the harbour edge stands a stepped-gable warehouse the VOC built to hold spices. It is called the Peperhuis - the Pepper House - and the name has stuck for nearly four centuries. Pepper was not a seasoning then. It was a fortune in dry grains, taxed by weight, hoarded behind lo...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/g/enkhuizen-wp/u17g-enkhuizen-the-peperhuis.mp3 0:06 3 full Enkhuizen: The Cartographers' Town https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ Something in the air here produced map-makers. Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, born around 1534, compiled the first true sea-atlas of European waters - a book so useful that the English coined a word for it, calling navigational charts "waggoners" after his name. A generation later Jan...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/g/enkhuizen-wp/u17g-enkhuizen-the-cartographers-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Enkhuizen: Seed Valley https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ The modern economy that grew where the spice trade once was looks, at first glance, almost too neat to be true. Enkhuizen is now part of Seed Valley, a cluster of companies that breed and sell seeds for vegetables and flowers worldwide. Syngenta operates a research facility here....

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/7/g/enkhuizen-wp/u17g-enkhuizen-seed-valley.mp3 0:06 5 full Enkhuizen: A City at the Quarter-Hour https://qualla.com/enkhuizen/ Two Hemony carillons hang in Enkhuizen, one in the Zuiderkerk and the other inside the Drommedaris - the 1540 harbour tower that still guards the entrance to the inner port. They chime every fifteen minutes, automatically, the way they have for centuries. In summer the city caril...

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