Johannes Kerkhovenpolder

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The Johannes Kerkhovenpolder was created by Johannes Kerkhoven in a private company in 1878, and covers an area of around 400 hectares. It is a curiosity among the complex of Dollard-polders because it was not high, silted up salt marsh that was reclaimed, but slightly lower-lying, wet mud flats. It presents a pleasing landscape, with a number of central farm buildings, rational land division, marker trees and polder dikes. The inner dike has been cut through for the access road.
Arable farming has always been more important than livestock farming in the Oldambt.
There was more pasture in the older polders than in the newer ones. The cultivation of grain was important. The fertility of the naturally poor soils was improved by applying manure, digging up clay from the subsoil, applying mud and sediment from the Dollard and digging out the old dikes.
Typically for this polder are sometimes two trees at the entrance of plots, as orientationpoints in the spacious landscape.
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Coordinates:   53°16'27"N   7°3'56"E

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