A muralt wall is a small wall on top of a dike, which served as an alternative and inexpensive dike elevation. A muralt wall consists of three or four horizontal concrete slabs, about a meter high, between concrete posts.
Muralt walls are an invention of the nobleman ir. R.R.L. de Muralt, head of the Technical Service of the water board Schouwen between 1903 and 1913. After the storm surge of 1906, he developed a cheap way to elevate dikes without having to widen the dike body. Between 1906 and 1935, approximately 120 km of these muralt walls were constructed, about a third of all the then-existing Zeeland outer dikes. However, during the flood disaster of 1953, they proved to be insufficient. For this reason, most muralt walls were dismantled during dike elevations after 1953. Around Scharendijke, various remnants of muralt walls have been preserved. These remnants have been designated as national monuments.
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