The Utrecht and Dutch lakes

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In various places in the Green Heart there were swamp areas. The grass and shrub vegetation that grew lushly there sank to the bottom when it died but did not rot. It compacted into peat layers. Later, the peat was excavated for peat extraction as fuel.
This is how most of the Utrecht and Dutch lakes, with their characteristic laying fields, were created. The laying fields, narrow strips of soil between the dredging or cap holes, served to dry the peat before cutting it to turven. Those capholes and laying fields can still be seen in the landscape in some places.
Typical examples are the Peat excavation landscape of the Vinkeveense Plassenen and that of the Loosdrechtse plassen.

Pieter Erauw

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