Qualla: Lemmer https://qualla.com/lemmer en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Lemmer https://qualla.com/lemmer Lemmer: Introduction https://qualla.com/lemmer/ On the night of 24 September 1799, a sudden storm pinned Captain James Boorder of the Royal Navy inside De Wildeman Inn. He had come ashore at Lemmer under a white flag to deliver an ultimatum to the local authorities — surrender the town and its ships to Britain — but the weather had other ideas, and the British captain spent the night as an unwilling guest of the people he intended to claim. Three days later he returned to make his demand. Lemmer refused.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/h/lemmer-wp/u1kh-lemmer-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lemmer: Where Two Rivers Meet https://qualla.com/lemmer/ The original Lemsters settled at the mouth of the Rien and the Zijlroede, the point where Friesland's inland waterways spilled into the Zuiderzee. The name appears in writing as early as 1228, when the bishop of Utrecht recorded it as Lenna, and older variants like Lyamer still s...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/h/lemmer-wp/u1kh-lemmer-where-two-rivers-meet.mp3 0:06 2 full Lemmer: The Day the Royal Navy Came https://qualla.com/lemmer/ By 1799 the Netherlands was a French client state, and Britain was at war with both. British warships swept the Zuiderzee, taking Enkhuizen, Medemblik, and Stavoren. When Boorder finally returned to Lemmer with his ultimatum — surrender or be shot to pieces — five hundred armed f...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/h/lemmer-wp/u1kh-lemmer-the-day-the-royal-navy-came.mp3 0:06 3 full Lemmer: The Engine That Never Stops https://qualla.com/lemmer/ Walk south of the harbor today and you arrive at something genuinely extraordinary: the Woudagemaal, the largest steam-powered pumping station ever built that still actively operates. Commissioned in 1920 to drain the Frisian polders when the smaller pumps could not keep up with ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/k/h/lemmer-wp/u1kh-lemmer-the-engine-that-never-stops.mp3 0:06 4 full Lemmer: The Lemsteraak and the Lakes https://qualla.com/lemmer/ After the Zuiderzee Works closed off the bay between 1924 and 1968, Lemmer's fishing fleet of 146 vessels gradually shrank. The town turned to the lakes instead. The Lemsteraak, a flat-bottomed sailing barge with broad gaff-rigged sails, was born here — designed for the shallow F...

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