In the picturesque Overijssel town of Blokzijl you can find a small image of a woman:

Meppel Nu

· 30 Aug 2020

In the picturesque Overijssel town of Blokzijl you can find a small image of a woman:

#STANDBEELDKAATJE 😍 In the picturesque Overijsselse town #Blokzijl is a small #beeld of finding a woman. The statue is located near the lock of Blokzijl. According to legend, a woman named Kaatje ran her own inn there at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It went Kaatje for a long time before the wind, but it ended badly with her... #Kaatje was, according to tradition, born in Blokzijl in 1672. There's no doubt about who her mother was. This was a Brecht Jansdochter, a merchant widow from Amsterdam who ran his own inn in Blokzijl in den Gouden Walvisch. The identity of Kaatje's father is unknown.
Blokzijl (Lower Saxon: Blokziel) is a village in the Kop van Overijssel and is part of the municipality of Steenwijkerland in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It was an independent municipality until 1973. Blokzijl is located between Emmeloord and Steenwijk. The place owes its name to a fortified lock, the Blokzijl (zijl = lock). Blokzijl has about 1,375 inhabitants.
Blokzijl has its own harbour for pleasure boating and a lock. Larger sightseeing boats regularly visit Blokzijl as a stopover. On the quay there is an old cannon, where tourists like to photograph each other. In the heart of the town, near the lock, is the star restaurant Kaatje at the Sluis.