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Everywhere in Schiedam you can find warehouses. Since there was a lot of brewery of jenever going on, a lot of ingredients needed to be stored.
The 2 warehouses on the picture on the right have the names of 2 dutch provinces on their front, Zeeland (see picture below) and Gelderland.
The 2 warehouses on the picture on the right have the names of 2 dutch provinces on their front, Zeeland (see picture below) and Gelderland.
Schiedam Historical Tour (not on Mondays):
This is mainly a walking tour with enough moments of rest e.g. lunch and visits at sites.
- windmill "The New Palm Tree"
- jenever museum
- lunch in world's tallest windmill "The North"
- chocolate art: demo making bonbons and bouchées
- city tour along many famous historical buildings
This is mainly a walking tour with enough moments of rest e.g. lunch and visits at sites.
- windmill "The New Palm Tree"
- jenever museum
- lunch in world's tallest windmill "The North"
- chocolate art: demo making bonbons and bouchées
- city tour along many famous historical buildings
At the western edge of Schiedam’s old center, lined up along the former outer canal, stand the world’s five tallest windmills.
Their location explains their height. They were built between 1770-1810 and being used for the grinding of grain needed for the distillation of gin, then Schiedam’s main industry.
To catch as much wind as possible, they were made to stand high above the city, which came to lie at their feet.
This made them the highest windmills in the world.
The five windmills ( a remainder of original twenty mills) grinded grin for distilleries that made the famous jenever of Schiedam, where more gin was produced than in any other city in the world.
Schiedam can no longer make that claim, but two of the five remaining windmills do still grind grain for the jenever industry.
Three of the five can be visited to see the interior: one houses a shop, one a museum and the third a restaurant.
Since Schiedam is THE jenever city in the Netherlands, it is an absolute must to visit the jenever museum when you're there.
You can learn about the history of jenever, how it is brewed and of course you can taste some in the bar which is the final part of your museum tour...
It also has a very nice and sometimes funny collection of miniature jenever bottles. Very amusing
It's open Tuesdays till Saturdays from 12-17h
Sundays and festive days the brewery museum is open form 12.30 till 17h
You can learn about the history of jenever, how it is brewed and of course you can taste some in the bar which is the final part of your museum tour...
It also has a very nice and sometimes funny collection of miniature jenever bottles. Very amusing
It's open Tuesdays till Saturdays from 12-17h
Sundays and festive days the brewery museum is open form 12.30 till 17h
(7 hour tour)
Schiedam Historical Tour
Alkmaar...Amsterdam... Delft...Edam... Elburg...Gouda... Hoorn... Marken...Monnickendam... The Hague... Volendam
The five tallest windmills of the world!
Windmill "The Freedom", Schiedam
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