The beautiful province of Zeeland in The Netherlands in 1919 in color! Part-1 [Enhanced & colorized]
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- The province of Zeeland consists of a number of large islands in the South-West of The Netherlands. Part-1 of this film shows the simple and hard rural life of its inhabitants more than a century ago in 1919. At the time nearly all of them wore the traditional dress.
Characteristic are the two small golden reflectors that are worn at the side of the women's caps.
Some viewers have jokingly brandmarked them as satellite solar panels.
A tradition was to "coupe" horse's tails and beautify them with ribbons to be shown-off at local horse shows. Zeeland was and is primarily an agricultural area of The Netherlands. In the film women can be seen picking various fruit including goose berries.
Zeeland has had a long fight with the sea. Dikes and dunes often were not high or strong enough causing Zeeland to be flooded often during many centuries until in the 1960's the Dutch government executed the "Delta plan". This involved closing-off the waters between the islands from the sea by means of large dams and huge sea locks.
In recent years it has become apparent that this is prohibiting fish like salmon to swim up the Dutch and German rivers to sperm. Therefore some of the sealockes are now opened slightly to let them pass through.
Music: 'Whales Of The North' by Vadim Krakhma
Source: Beeld en Geluid.
E-mail: ricksfilmrestoration@gmail.com
Tijdlijn:
00:00 Luchtbeelden van Middelburg
00:54 De Balans, Middelburg
00:58 Abdijplein, Middelburg
01:10 Wisselende camerapunten van Abdij en Balans
01:40 Stadhuis van Middelburg
01:57 De Choutoren met de beelden van de Graven van Holland en Zeeland
02:07 De Kloveniersdoelen in gebruik als militair hospitaal
02:21 De Segeerstraat, Middelburg
02:27 De Langeviele, Middelburg
02:31 De Koningsbrug, Middelburg
02:39 Huifkar komt uit de Vlasmarkt de Markt op
02:44 Donderdag markt, Middelburg
02:50 Paard met huifkar rijdt langs het Stadhuis
03:00 Arnemuidense vrouw in klederdracht maakt vis schoon
03:25 Vier Walcherense vrouwen
03:46 Vrouw in Middelburgse klederdracht op de fiets
03:50 Vrouwen bezoeken de markt
04:04 Grote groep vrouwen in klederdracht
04:20 Twee meisjes uit Arnemuiden bij een ijscowagen
04:37 Golven slaan op de Perkoenpalen
04:55 Noordzee bij de Westkappelse Zeedijk
05:10 Perkoenpalen
05:24 Koopvaarder vaart voorbij
05:36 Gezicht vanaf de dijk op Zoutelande
06:00 Grote Markt, Goes (gefilmd vanaf het stadhuis)
06:22 Zicht op de Maria Magdalena kerk
06:30 Zicht op stadhuis en Grote Kerk
06:38 Kleine Kade, Goes
06:56 Beestenmarkt, Goes
07:13 Mannelijke kerkgangers verlaten de R.K. kerk
07:44 Vrouwelijke kerkgangers verlaten de R.K. kerk
08:28 Spits van het Stadhuis te Veere
08:34 Boer en boerin voor hun huis met bloesems
08:43 De haven van Zierikzee
08:48 De Zuidhavenpoort
08:58 Sint Lievenmonstertoren, Zierikzee
09:02 Straatje in Zierikzee met Lievenmonstertoren
09:08 De Noordhavenpoort
09:19 Het stadhuis aan de Meelstraat, Zierikzee
09:25 De Nobelpoort te Zierikzee
09:32 De Nobelstraat
09:40 Dorpsstraat in Kapelle
09:47 Unieke beelden van de Weststraat in Kapelle, grotendeels verwoest tijdens WO-II
10:02 Het weeshuis in Goes
10:10 Vrouw in Arnemuidense klederdracht biedt haar koopwaar aan
11:36 Kersen (morellen) plukken
12:35 Kruisbessen plukken
13:23 De kruisbessen oogst
13:30 Uitrusten na het zware werk
13:47 Morellen worden gesorteerd
14:23 Morellen worden gewogen en gestort in jutezakken
14:49 Einde.
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*This series is in three parts* :
Part-1: ruclips.net/video/K7Mye16Ha30/видео.html
Part-2: ruclips.net/video/VEFXq4GWIf8/видео.html
Part-3: ruclips.net/video/g5W20LyWgeE/видео.html
Most of this is built on reclaim land from wetlands marshlands vital to keeping flood regulated all this willl soon be underwater because you will never ever beat mother nature I wonder whos bright idea was this to condemned your entire province into oblivion because you actually taught you could built this in reclaim land below sea level.
why do all european cities have no green spaces those old cities ofcourse its nothing but cement and stone it seem europeans have hated trees this is why there is very little native old forest left in europe in any at all
Благодарю за видео,за музыку. Музыка просто уносит в то далёкое прошлое,умиротворяет. Тихое спокойное видео,наводящее на размышления. Прекрасная природа,удивительные дома,интересная национальная одежда.
I remember living in Zeeland in the mid-seventies and traditional costumes and headdresses were been worn by some of the older women exactly the same as in this great film.
Ate you sure it wasn't for a special event?
@@GUITARTIME2024 It may well have been for a special event, it is just I have always remembered the image of the elderly couple in costume. Funnily enough, I now live in Brittany and see costumes been worn for all sorts of events.
@@michaelturner6425 Zeeland is bit out of the way by Dutch standards, so I guess its possible that some old ladies might wear the traditional stuff in the 1970s when going to town, but its possible they worked as tour guides or it was Easter or something. In America, to see an old woman in pre-1920s clothing with bonnets and such in the 1970s, when I was a kid, would have been like from another planet for any American.
@@GUITARTIME2024 Traditional dresses are still work today in some places, not just for special events. Granted these places are getting rare. A village close to me it's still quite common to wear them, when they come to the markets it's pretty clear where they come from.
@@relo999 name a few places. It has to be part of a festival or "Bloemenstoet" or something.
Look how clean everything is ! The roads the canals .no pollution, no litter because there wasn't so much packaging on things then .I loved this film ,being transported back ioo years ago ,lovely,thank you
Keep in mind that places that were generally not very clean were probably not being filmed.
I've been to this part of the Netherlands not long ago. Its very clean, for the most part.
They grew their own or got it local. Incomparable to now. We had millions fewer folk on the planet. We have managed to litter space, and left items on Mars (not the Rover) which will be there for eternity.
Greetings from Middelburg Netherlands
@@robertjansoer6085
Ach man. Laat mensen toch dromen.
Of ga je liever klagen over hoe slecht het vroeger was en over hoe geweldig we het nu hebben?
Klier.
I like to imagine the number of people who are seeing an ancestor without knowing it...
It's amazing. This is one of the most impressive videos I've ever seen. All looks like in a fairytale. The past that came to life. Thank you so much for the video. Greetings from Russia
Привет назад в Россию 🙃
It's really impressive aerial shots in 1919!
@Hannibal S 33 Man, are you alright?
My mother was born in Duinbeek, near Oostkapelle and within biking distance from Middelburg. This footage reminds me of my grandmother who was in full costume until arthritis made it impossible for her to dress up anymore. I remember all the old folk mostly in black. And before the Internet, the rommelmarkt was a WWII collector's dream come true. One of my great uncles, a Canadian, fought here as well.
VERY INTERESTING FILM, AMAZING MUSIC- RESPECT FROM POLAND
The Netherlands in 1919 has a higher standard of living than most countries in 2021
1919 Netherlands was still an empire so that is not too crazy. I'd argue that even citizens of classical empires had a higher standard of living than many alive today. Actually, the Roman elite were so wealthy by today's standards they would be trillionairs. In short: decent wealth distribution is apparently very challenging when those trying to figure it out are presently rich themselves.
@@Ronnet No. Germany had almost no colonies after WW2 and they were still rich.
They were so lucky to live in a better world. Since then, which is a very short time, humanity has lost everything to be proud of.
How come? 1919 was the year women had just gotten their voting rights, miscarriages were rampant, poverty was rampant, domestic abuse was rampant, LGBT-activity was punishable by law, death rates were through the roof because of the Spanish Flu and lacking medical services. So please tell me, how were they more lucky?
How ???
It’s only one year since the worlds biggest war and only 20 till the next world catastrophe.
I am scared of what it will be like in another 100 years
More of the same but different.
At least we have our 8k material we then can scale up to real time virtual environment plugged into our brains.
Time wait for no person. I was before scared. But you know what? You would not even notice that we change. 😁
We’ll probably be in the thousand year reign of Christ in another 100 years
Let's just hope there will be something
Bring back the old Europe
Go to Russia, there they have it. But it seems they want the new Europe which includes washing machines and toilets.
Mijn vader is geboren in 1916. Toen deze film werd gemaakt was hij nog geen 3 jaar.
Het is net of ik in een tijdmachine ben gestapt... Dit doet me veel . Prachtig
So beautiful n no plastics
Most interesting part I notice about these videos is that in these times lots of people can be seen hanging about. A lot has improved since those times, but the pace of living in these days are something that can be missed.
Sfeer uit het jaar 1919.
101 jaar geleden.
De sfeer en muziek in deze video zijn geweldig en mooi.
Ik vond heel erg leuk.
Bedankt voor dit werk.
JUST WONDERFUL!!!!
7:45 I have no words for this scene. Amazing. Glorious. Superb.
Watch the Old Europe in full swing. Tear jerker
Indrukwekkend. En tegelijkertijd bizar om in deze kwaliteit terug te kijken naar echte beelden van een eeuw geleden. Prachtig geschiedenis document.
Heritage ruined through mass media.
😢
Beautiful Holland, kind people, Dutch women can see that they do a lot of things, hard-working people, compared to my country, China, which era is living in the dark age
Thank you for an amazing film.
Everything is perfect in a natural way,something we cannot achieve in our now over successful modern era.
Oh to go back - things were tough but people didn’t know any better.
Thanks to the great invention of motion pictures, we can transcend time and places. We can travel to 100 years ago freely and see people a long time ago as if they are our neighbors.
One of your best yet! The aerial shots at the beginning were quite breathtaking. And the costumes worn by the women are so intriguing, especially the head-dresses with their ornamentation. What a level of social homogeneity for everyone to dress absolutely the same.
I'm not totally sure that's daily dress. That might be Sunday clothes, or part of a festival.
looks similar to amish people in US
Very beautiful. I imagine minus the cars, it was how the town and people looked like for a hundred years.
102 years ago, it's hard to imagine we still can see it.
Master Rick: I’ve dreamed about time travel since my earliest days. At age 67, it has been realized! I view their past, I am their future, and it happens in the eternal present. Thank you? Not sufficient, sir.
My pleasure! I'm pleased you are enjoying my videos
It's embarrassing that these old cities are prettier, more elegant and livable than our dysfunctional ones today. Their simple and harder life was healthier than ours, and it's likely that they were happier than we are, too.
Cities where more beatiful because after the war we were only interested in rebuilding quickly and cheaply because there where many homeless and there was no money due to the war. Before the war we already started building ugly houses, because the Dutch population skyrocketed. On youtube there is a film made by the american goverment called ''Know your ally, The Netherlands'' you can see the rebuilding and de simpler cost effective buildings take shape.
They where happier from the tales i hear from the elders around here (i live in Zeeland) People were very friendly, if one man had a machine to plow the ground he went around the village and did that to every front porch, so people could easily grow some extra food. People also traded old stuff like clothing and pans, and traded fish for rabbits, or fruit and veggies depending on what kind of food the men gathered.
But the work was very though and people died young to diseases.
Wow....bridging 100 years of photos and videos in color is absolutely amazing.
U doet zeer belangrijke historische documentatie! Dank hiervoor!
Amazing !! this is how all historical footage should be restored.
The interesting thing about this video is that it show life as it was from the middleages until that moment. The only 'modern' things are the bicycles and that one car. Zeeland was (and for the most part still is) very rural.
Ehhh more since the 18th century really
I’ve seen similar films that have been color added but this is by far the best because of the addition of music in the background instead of just silent movies
Incredible quality! Also, some of the women from that period are really built strong
Yes because they had to work hard everyday for everything people women today who get everything premade and automated. 💪
Wat mooi zo vredig en een ludieke rust ben er vaak geweest prachtig mooi denk dat het tegenwoordig wel wat anders is jaamer dat die tijd voorbij is
it is amazing Rick. women worked a lot in the past. greetings from Marrakech Morocco.
Beautiful and beautiful music.
Omg this is amazing. The women's seems very polite.
Amazing, simply amazing. To have a detailed view into the life a hundred years back...incredible. Everyone dressed better than nowadays, there was far less bustle and the architecture so much more interesting.
Dit zal mijn grootmoeder prachtig vinden, de locatie betreffende zou er zelfs nog familie van me tussen kunnen zitten. Bedankt Rick.
It is really beautiful Netherlands I hope one day to be able to touch the land of the Netherlands with my feet and hands and see the great landscapes of that majestic place so green, so fresh, and eat from the Its delicious cheeses and sausages, what a fascinating place what a beautiful culture I love Netherlands
Quality is outstanding. Thanks for posting
Это какая-то сказка! Нереальный городок.
I lived in Netherlands, Zuid Holland, for 11 years. What a beautiful country.
I love, I don't know how to say it but is a feeling of happiness watching this video. Thank you! Felicidades buen trabajo. Greetings from Guayaquil Ecuador Southamerica
The great war has jest ended...
Wanneer je niet beter wist,zou je denken er wordt een film opgenomen in het volkenkundigmuseum over 1919, alleen de schaal is te groot; want het is echt! Verbluffend mooi..!
Zo mooi. Wauw. Je bent geweldig. Dankjewel. Ik kreeg een hoofdpijn naar zwart wit en schuddende films te zien. Maar dit, dit is absoluut geniaal.
Es fascinantes quisiera ir a esa época.. wwuuao
The fruit is the Gooseberry my bride just informed me they pick the same berry in Russia.
The women were strong fit and slim...💗
Thanks so much for the time travel. I love your windows of time very much!
Будьте добры,это действительно реальные сьемки?я вижу по эмоциям по сьемке сверху .что реальные ..но это просто невероятно!может подскажете еще на ютуб какойнибудь подобный канал.здесь в основном англоязычные.я увидела ваше имя))
I live in Holland our stad is nog nice like Zeeland.
We think that we are the hosts, when infact we are all but the guests
Deze video laat me een tijd missen die ik niet geleefd heb. Ik ben helaas pas 75 jaar later geboren.
Love the headgear that the women of that era wears...sure it has a different meaning and significant
Now this is impressive. This is sort of, what I've been talking about. If we can get all the old film looking like this or slightly, better it will be indistinguishable from modern day film. Truly, bringing the past into the present.
Bravo. This is really, quite, breathtaking. My Best.
Zo mooi. En kompleet vergeten.
This came recommended to me by youtube. What a lovely video thankyou for sharing. Gave me an understanding of what life was like for my Oma as a 5 year old child after the war.....
Bloody hell those women are tough, looks like they could literally manhandle their men.
The city is called Middelburg and the movie was shot on a thursday, because there was/is a weekly thursday market in front of the city council hall. The people wearing the costumes are mosty people living on farms or in little fishing villages on the island of Walcheren that have come to the market to sell their products.
Of all the RUclips videos I've watched these restored films get the most intelligent and kind comments I've ever read. That is as comforting and soothing as watching them. Thank you for sharing them and thank you to all who had such lovely insightful things to say.
Superb video of my beloved Zeeland. Many thanks for making this possible.
The music chosen for this is really nice.
Hoe mooi bijzonder! Bedankt voor de beelden :)
Het blijft me fascineren om mensen in de bloei van hun leven te zien met de wetenschap dat ze allemaal al lang dood zijn. Als ik naar zo'n vrolijk lachend gezicht kijk vraag ik me altijd af wie was jij en hoe is jou verdere leven verlopen. Ik denk dat ik best wel gelukkig zou kunnen zijn in die tijd. Het Nederland van vandaag de dag vind ik toch iets minder.
Het zou nog mooier zijn wanneer we onze luxe zouden kunnen combineren met de mentaliteit van toen. Ik hecht toch echt wel waarde aan een warme douche, electriciteit, koffiezetapparaatje etc. etc. Qua levensstandaard zijn wij er enorm op vooruit gegaan. De dingen die wij voor lief nemen, bestonden 100 jaar geleden simpelweg niet. Echt niet alles was beter toen.
@@uplinkx1126 Wanneer de mobiele telefoon 2000 jaar voor Christus was uitgevonden, dan had iedereen destijds een mobiele telefoon.
We grow kruisbessen! The gooseberry bushes have thorns! Will learn from these women, and wear gloves to pluck the berries.
Holland is an absolutely beautiful country. Thank you for this beautiful video.😀🙂❤❤
World before plastic .
Without I phone, without electricity....Gods! How did they survived?
Fantastische beelden, mooie sfeerimpressies. Een samenleving in balans en gezond, absoluut te koesteren!
They are so beautiful ☺️
Ook deze is weer enorm goed gelukt. Dank!
Life is just a momentary breath, only 37 thousand rays of the sun have passed and no one else exists in this video...🥲
Rick, ik heb bewondering voor je werk.....geweldig!
Bedankt voor het teruggeven van ons nationaal historisch erfgoed !
Graag gedaan. Ik heb tot drie keer toe Beeld en Geluid aangeboden films voor ze te restaureren, maar ze lijken niet geïnteresseerd. Ze investeren momenteel weer miljoenen in een grote verbouwing van hun gebouw, (alweer) gericht op een interactieve media 'speeltuin' voor kinderen, maar geld uitgeven voor het moderniseren van hun archief ten bate van iedereen, ook 50 plussers, terwijl dat juist degenen zijn die dit soort materiaal waarderen: ?!?!?
@@Rick88888888
Prioriteiten van overheden zijn vaak helaas ondergeschikt aan de wensen of belangen van het volk die ze behoren te dienen.
Ga gewoon door.
Vroeg of laat kunnen ze niet meer om je heen.
Je hebt allang laten zien wat je allemaal kunt.
Kijk echter uit met het zgn 'in de keuken laten kijken', zodat al je processen stiekem gecopieerd worden.
Ik spreek uit ervaring.
Instanties doen niets liever dan in eigen beheer van allerlei dingen broddelen die vaak nergens op slaan.
Bij internationale faam kan betrokkenheid bij zulke zaken enorme schade berokkenen.
Probeer deze dingen dus te vermijden als het kan en zorg met waterdichte contracten.
Als je die nml niet hebt, word je over het algemeen vaak misbruikt.
What is the bet there is a 80 year old man in that village saying:
These young people are vain and lazy. Back in my day.
Just the other day I saw a women in the village showing her ankle. This world is out of control.
exactlyyy xD Frisia is built upon democracy though, and at this time queen Wilhelmina was in rule.
Half naked modern ladies look better! ^___^ Blame us men.
@@user-yo1pz2qu2b In the past Dutch women used to dress modestly. Because many of them were either Christian or Jewish. So sad they left their religion and culture.....
I am a Dutch convert Muslim lady. Which means I am a native Dutch, and I am Muslim. :)
@@AG-wb3db WHAT?! Bruh...allow me to keep my harsh words. I feel sad for your country. Dutch people & women were great it is a great sadness to lose you guys. yourself is an reflection of dying west. When a Civilization is in declining, Weaklings especially some women firstly abandoned their mother culture and surrender themselves completely to the invaders, this happened in Chinese history as well, We call those people as "sinners traitors and faceless (No shame) people" And very heavily punished them when took our nation back. They were allowed to live only on boats. I heard of in Europe that was the same, after WW2 in nazi occupied European nations, traitors got half of their hair shaved. Guess what? I do NOT agree with that, When a nation is so weak, everyone is a sinner. Those weaklings only want to live better as long as they didn't sold or try to stop other resisting people, They are not more sinful that us all. those people were treated to harshly, hopeful one day, they can treat you with fairness & kindness. Milady.
Hartelijk dank voor de video
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thank you Rick 🥇
So beautiful. I really hope I can bring my daughter to visit Zeeland and the rest of Holland. All the videos you post show such beautiful country. I can not wait to see Holland, again, now that I am older, but your videos bring us so much joy. Another 5 star video, Rick88888888!
Thanks Patti!
Thank you for sharing! Here I am transported to another dimension, an era both so close and so far away... It's like entering a fantasy movie set... It had no TV, no smartphone... We went to bed early with a good book and dreamed... Do children still dream today? Or our time in such a way destroyed their dreams?
Nou snap ik waarom de stoepjes altijd van steen zijn.
Elk ander materiaal is binnen de kortste tijd volledig weggeschrobd.
excellent video. thanks
Thank you Rick for this beautiful video. It is so special to see, I can almost not comprehend that this is real footage from 100 years ago. My great-grand mother is from Zeeland and lived during this time. I have a picture of her wearing this type of traditional clothing! It is a shame to see some of the comments are negative, political, or hateful. Therefore I just want to say again that I appreciate your work. And also that I think we can both value the past and the current times for the good parts and also acknowledge the lesser parts. But let's be kind to each other now, while we still can! :)
Well said, thanks!
Beautiful ❤️ 🙏🏼
Great piece of work. Congrats. Whoever filmed it back then had a good eye for composition and detail. People back then were hard working and God fearing people. While life was less complicated, it was also pretty hard. One needed to work hard and stay healthy. There were not that many good medications back then and people could die easily from an infection. Child mortality was also higher back then. All that made for strong, tough and hardened people. But there was also time for play :-)
Dit is geweldig werk en is iets om trots op te zijn. Bravo!
Love this!
Dan maar in het Nederlands, want Google Translate vond het blijkbaar niet boeiend, geweldige documentaire 😍👍 ik zie plekken waar ik echt ben geweest. Maar dan in 1919! Helemaal TOP 🤗🤗💕🙏🙏🙏
Famtastic. A triumph of your skill. Thank you
Many thanks!
Absolutely Brilliant clear footage of Zealand 1919
Amazing job!!! FANTASTIC! I like to see the people. Impossible not imagine their lives... Brazil
Loved the view with the windmill. Great film.
Het Nederland dat dichter bij mijn jeugd in de jaren 1970 staat dan het beeld van 2020. Prachtig, echt heel mooi bewerkt. Zit toevallig in een fotoboek van Alphons Hustinx te kijken, dus ben in the mood.
i want to life 100 years ago.
because everybody then lives in theirs own country.
You have no comprehension of how hard life was then, of how hard people of all ages except the youngest and elderly, especially here, where the sea continually tried to reclaim the land. It’s a filmmaker’s job to make his/her subjects look idyllic, or to idealize them for people who would watch the films.
@@voraciousreader3341 look the world in our time is demonic with fake virus and fake media with all nations trouble.
@@voraciousreader3341 It was harder in some ways, easier in others, and better in almost every way. Did people have to work harder and longer? Yes of course. But not everyone is afraid of hard work.
@@mercster Like Mercster said, some thing were better but the work was insanely tough. Don't expect to reach your 55th birthday back then in Zeeland, you worked until you couldn't go any further and died young.
That said, before the Americans liberated Europe, people where way more friendly. Im thankful for their liberation ofcourse (And ofcourse the Canadians and Scottish, they liberated Zeeland) But Americans are more self centered then we where before and we took that habit. Before the Second world war everyone knew everyone, and everyone was friendly, though a bit harsh at times, to one another. Thats something i miss in Zeeland these days, although its still common in the very small villages >500 people
@@qopiqq3629 That has much less to do with Americans than the mass industrialization of Europe and the EU.
Спасибо за ценную информацию 🙏 Пример для нашего времени (трудолюбивый народ с детства и вытекающими отсюда последствиями: здоровые, сильные, счастливые...) год постройки здания 1582 ... так-то (1:32)
Heel erg mooi.
Super gedaan.
Leuk om te zien!
I love to see the people working together and lots of smirks and smiles for the camera. No distractions ( internet, smartphone, advertisements) just living and working together with goodwill and LOVE for one another.
Yet there still was 2 world wars
@@erenyeager8306
Holland skipped the first world war.
This brings back memories of wonderful times spent in the area on "The Windmill Run"
Brian
What a beautiful different world.
Rick je geeft me weer een tijd reis gevoel.ga vooral door,weer een 5 steren fiilm,
Amazing footage! Makes me sad to think all captured on film must now be dead and buried... Life is short....
Yes, but eternity is Forever !! 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
Compared to Russia those days. Heaven on earth.