Assen Things to Do Tips by Jaco_Emmen

Here you see how people lived in Drenthe

It is somehow a small house, just a few windows in it, if you compare it with the houses we are used to nowadays you would run away quickly, as all seems to be smaller in size, more or less 36 square meters, that is all, maybe even less, the cows, wood, stove, kitchenware, bedroom, walls, two small wooden chairs, some oil-lamps, it is all the inventory of a house that would be situated along one of the long channels in Drenthe, a province in the Nort-East of the Netherlands, this is the place the 'peet' was dug up, dried under the sun and wind, then placed on barges and transported to Amsterdam to heat the houses in the city. Visiting Ellert & Brammert in Schoonoord gives you a clear idea what it must have been to live in that time, some 70 years ago.

Address: Tramstraat, 7848 BJ Schoonoord, the Netherlands

Directions: Living, Sightseeing, Original, Peet Districs, Awareness
Openluchtmuseum Ellert en Brammert
Tramstraat 73, 7848 BJ Schoonoord, Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)591 382 746

Website: http://www.ellertenbrammert.nl/

Imagine, during the night the cows make a mess!

The farmers not long ago were always much more comfortable then the city folks! As they lived with the animals, also at night, the house would be much warmer then in the city! Although cooking inside wasn't so much fun, most of the houses would use a small stove, fired with peet, dug and dried locally!

Zoo Emmen, Butterfly garden

Butterfly garden

In the butterfly garden, you see how intimate is the relationship between flowers and butterflies. Butterflies in the flashiest colours flit from flower to flower - more than 1500 butterflies of 40 species. And many of them were bred in Emmen Zoo. Also zooming their way through the butterfly garden are hummingbirds- the smallest birds in the world. Not only are they crazy about nectar but spiders as well. Thanks to their efforts, the butterflies never get caught in spider webs.

Address: http://www.noorderdierenpark.nl/home.asp?taal=eng

Other Contact: Zoo Emmen Hoodstraat 18 7801 BA

Museum Ellert en Brammert

Best place to feel what life was like about 100 years ago in the Northern part of the Netherlands when peet was used to heat our houses.

Directions: Schoonoord, near the road Emmen - Drachten

From Amsterdam travel to Amersfoort, Zwolle, Hoogeveen and take the bus from Hoogeveen to Schoonoord or by car from Hoogeveen to Assen on the A28 and at a p

Other Contact: Telephone +31 (0)591-382421 Open