HOUSEBOATS TYPICAL DUTCH

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HOUSEBOATS TYPICAL DUTCH

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon May 10, 2021 8:01 pm

This year, the Typically Dutch stamp series focuses on house types and façades that are typical for the Netherlands.

The oldest written sources about the history of houseboats in the Netherlands date from around 1600. From that time onwards, people certainly lived on ships permanently, and especially on cargo ships that had been converted for residential use. There are few reliable figures on the number of houseboat occupants in recent centuries. In Friesland in around 1850 at least, there were thousands of ships with at least as many inhabitants. There was a notable increase in houseboats after 1945 due to the housing shortage at the time. The type of ship varies. Some remain almost in their original state and others receive drastic renovations or an entirely new superstructure is added. A distinction is often made between arks (concrete hull with a wooden, stone, or plastic superstructure), barges (a metal ship with a similar type of superstructure), and houseboats (decommissioned inland vessels or other historical ships that have taken on a residential function). Houseboats have their own residential address, using the letters t/o (tegenover meaning ‘opposite’) or a/b (aan boord meaning ‘on board’). It is becoming more and more common that houseboats are given ordinary addresses with ordinary house numbers. On 1 January 2018, the Wet verduidelijking voorschriften woonboten (‘Clarification on Regulations for Houseboats Act’) came into force. Before then, the situation often differed per municipality. This law sets out that all houseboats with berths are considered buildings. This also means that they have to meet the requirements of the Bouwbesluit (‘Buildings Decree’, 2012) and have an environmental permit. In the Netherlands, a limited number of official berths for houseboats are available: an estimated 10,000. Our country has a restrictive mooring policy. This means that the number of official berths is not expanded. The houseboats featured on the Typically Dutch - houseboats stamp sheet are located in Weesp (Vecht) and Amsterdam (Amstel).

Sources: Heritage on the water (publication of the National Houseboat Organisation, LWO), overheid.nl, Wikipedia.nl

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