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The Dutch Water Line proved its value less than forty years after its construction during the Franco-Dutch War (or Third Anglo-Dutch War) (1672), when it stopped the armies of Louis XIV from conquering Holland, although the freezing over of the line came close to rendering it useless. In 1794 and 1795, the revolutionary French armies overcame ...
The Dutch Water Defence lines (Dutch: Hollandse Waterlinies) [1] is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands comprising the New Dutch Waterline and Stelling van Amsterdam. The Stelling van Amsterdam was added as a World Heritage Site in 1996, and was extended in 2021 with the New Dutch Waterline in 2021. [2]
The West Brabant waterline [1] (Dutch: West-Brabantse waterlinie) (later: Stelling West Noord-Brabant) is a Dutch military defense line based on inundation. The West Brabant waterline is said to be the second oldest in The Netherlands (after the Eendrachtslinie) and was constructed in 1628 .
Overview of the Dutch defense lines in 1940. Roman defense line. Upper German Limes Limes Germanicus; Pre-1874 defense lines ... New Hollandic Water Line.
Model in 1:600 scale of the Fort de Roovere in 1751 The Moses Bridge or Loopgraafbrug (Trench Bridge). Fort De Roovere is an earthen fort, constructed as part of the Dutch Water Line, (Hollandse Waterlinie), a series of water-based defences conceived by Maurice of Nassau in 1628 during the Eighty Years War where it defended against Spanish attackers.
The Stelling van Amsterdam was primarily a defensive water line (Dutch: waterlinie). In the event of an enemy attack, large tracts of land around Amsterdam would be inundated with water, preventing the enemy from advancing. Amsterdam would function as a national redoubt or reduit, as the last stronghold of the Netherlands. Forts were built in ...
As part of the New Dutch Waterline, it was constructed to quickly dam the canal, so water from the flooded surroundings would not flow away through the canal. To achieve this, 40 million kilos of rocks and rubble was held in five spaces meters above the water, which would collapse with explosives.
The amount of coastal erosion is compared against the so-called "reference coastline" (Dutch: basiskustlijn), the average coastline in 1990. Sand replenishment is used where beaches have retreated too far. About 12 million m 3 of sand are deposited yearly on the beaches and below the waterline in front of the coast. [11]