Deventer

For English click the 'select language' button. I have been living in Deventer for about 16 years now. Deventer is a beautiful old Hanseatic city, has 100,000 inhabitants and has a nice shopping centre in the old town with some great streets and old buildings. Deventer is also a real Festival town. The city is famous for its book market, the Dickens festival and Deventer on stilts. Deventer is also called the 'Volendam of the Oost', because 'we' have quite a lot of good artists! A lot to write about, and you can't do that in one blog. Today I start with a blog with photos of an evening walk a few weeks ago. A night out with my husband. He confiscated the system camera, so I took these pictures with my mobile phone! On the computer these pictures seem to contain a lot of noise during evening photography, the camera grabs a high ISO value. Logical too, because the shutter speed has to remain fairly small to keep you shooting out of hand.

The market with the crooked Waag!

The waag was built in the 16th century, and in the 17th century it was built there. It's a late Gothic building. Last century a new foundation was created under it, because the Waag was now 80 cm out of the lead!

Inside is a copper cauldron, in that cauldron (from 1434)formerly counterfeiters were cooked alive in oil! The holes in the cauldron came in by Napoleon soldiers who shot it when he hung on the outer wall of the Waag.

Since 1915, the Historical Museum Deventer (now Museum de Waag)has been located in the Waag. When the building did not perform its original function after 1862, it still had a gymnasium.