Free audio walk in Middelburg
Middelburg Trading City
- 61 min
- 2.2 km
- 12 stops
- Free
Starts at Markt 34
About this walk
How trade turned Middelburg into one of the most important cities in the Netherlands
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
The Market and Town Hall
The town hall wasn't built with slave money, but the men who ran it were shipowners through and through.
- 2Stop 2
Fish Market
The city's first wealth came from wine, which was required by law to dock here.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Kousteensedijk and the library
A warehouse complex once stood behind the courthouse, and before that, a house full of forced labour.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Korendijk and the Den Eenhoorn warehouse
The date on this facade probably doesn't tell the whole story, and the same goes for plenty of other buildings.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Compagnieplein and the MCC Shipyard
This is where the ships were built, with an orlop deck just a metre forty high.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Kinderdijk
Four warehouses named after beasts of burden, standing beside a canal the town dug for itself.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
Rouaansekaai
Ships set sail from these quays that officially weren't allowed to sail at all.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
Kuiperspoort
Without a well-made barrel, no cargo made it across the ocean in one piece.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
Bellinkstraat
This is where the innkeepers lived who supplied crews to the ships.
Read the story - 10
- 11Stop 11
Suikerpoort
An entire industry that went from twelve mills to zero in thirty years.
Read the story - 12
Ready when you are
Walk Middelburg Trading City with ROODS.
12 stops through Middelburg, about 61 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
