Tsjûkemar

Tsjûkemar
Vierhuis on Tsjûkemar
Geographical location	Netherlands   Friesland
Islands	Marchjepôle , Tsjûkepôle , Gânzetippe
Places on the shore	Vierhuis , Delfstrahuizen , Echtenerbrug , Oosterzee
Data
Coordinates	52 ° 53 '42 "  N , 5 ° 47' 49"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '42 "  N , 5 ° 47' 49"  E
length	6.8 km
width	4.5 km
Maximum depth	2.2 m
Map of the "Fryske Marren"

Tsjûkemar ( Dutch Tjeukemeer ) is an inland lake in the Dutch province of Friesland on the edge of the province of Overijssel and the largest body of water in the so-called Friese Meren . It used to be just a shallow lake with no particular tourist attractions. In 1957 several provinces started a cooperation under the name Marrekrite for the purpose of developing the area for tourism. The shallows were removed and two artificial islands were created in 2000. These now offer boat tourists berths in their own docks where they can spend the night.

history

Storms - in particular the Julian Flood in 1164 , the Marcellus Flood in 1219 and the Second Cosmas and Damian Flood in 1509 - as well as ice drifts have changed the shape and size of the lake in the course of history, and many stories tell of villages that sank in the Tsjûkemar. The lake was also enlarged by spontaneous peat fires and fires in the peat. Around 1840 there were first plans to dry land, and around 1880 another one; however, none was realized.

The lake and its surroundings

Provided with a fixed bridge in the south (towards Lemmer ), the Tsjûkemar ends in the north with one of the few remaining motorway lift bridges (towards Joure ). The headroom of the fixed bridge can block larger sailors. The villages of Echtenerbrug , Delfstrahuizen , Vierhuis and Oosterzee are located on the lake . There are also some campsites. Echtenerbrug and Delfstrahuizen are separated by the Christaansloot pier . This belongs to a small part of an old peat route that leads to the Tsjûkemar and is now provided with many berths. The exit towards the province of Overijssel is also located here. In the south-west the exit leads over the Follegasloot to the Groote Brekken and to Lemmer. At the northern exit at Zandrak you should not leave the concrete fairway, as it immediately becomes very shallow. The north-eastern part in particular measures less than a meter. However, dangerous boulders (50 cm under water) have now been removed from the Tsjûkemar. They no longer appear as danger spots on the waterway maps. After the lake had been brought to a greater depth in recent years, the buoying of the eastern fairway from Echtenerbrug to the north has been thinned out very much, so that it hardly offers any orientation in the swell. However, old water maps still show the full buoy. In the direction of Langweer , it is therefore advisable to drive west over the Follegasloot and then north over the Prinses Margriet Canal instead of using the northern exit.

Islands

• Gânzetippe is the only natural and largest island in the lake. It is only about 100 meters from the north-western shore of the lake and the west bay De Wiel , which is attached there ; it is separated from the shore by the embankment of the Emmeloord-Joure motorway and narrow strips of water accompanying it on both sides; that's why it's loud here.
• Marchjepôle , the next smaller one, is about half a kilometer from the south bank between Oosterzee and Echtenbrug. There is a child-friendly, gently sloping beach with fine sand.
• Tsjûkepôle is only slightly shifted from the center of the lake to the northeast

Garbage can be disposed of on all islands, none of them currently have sanitary facilities. On Marchjepôle, a toilet is moored on a floating pontoon at the jetty in the south of the island during the summer months.

Tsjûke and March

Monument to "Tsjûke and March"

There are various folk tales about how the Tsjûkemar got its name . One of them can be found at the pumping station in Echten , where the statue of Tsjûke and March is also located.

A long time ago the Tsjûkemar must have been land with here and there forest. One day two peasant women were walking outside the small polder . They had cows and just came back from milking. One of the peasant women had two buckets of milk, the other had none. Suddenly they discovered a fire. The farmer's wife without milk called out to the other: “You have to pour your milk into it so that the fire doesn't get bigger!” But the other farmer's wife said: “You are probably not clever, then I'll be rid of my milk! Let it burn, it's not our land. ”Because this farmer's wife refused to give her milk to put out, the fire grew. The other farmer's wife looked at it fearfully and called: "Oh Tsjûke, oh Tsjûke, you should regret that!"

In doing so, she seriously turned off the farmer's wife, since 'Tsjûke' was a dog's name at the time. Whoever called a woman 'Tsjûke' made her a bitch. The name of today's 'sea' is said to have originated from the swear word from this story. Others claim that instead of two peasant women, they were two sisters named Tsjûke and March. This story tells of the two sisters losing sight of each other due to the smoke during the fire. But since they kept calling each other by name, this has stuck in the memory of the people in the area to this day. “That's the Tsjûkemar,” that's why they say.

Trivia

In 1974 the Dutch pop singer Conny Vandenbos released a song called "Tjeukemeer". The music for this was written by Burt Bacharach ; the text is by Hal David .

Web links

Commons : Tsjûkemar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Tjeukemeer. on SkipperGuide.de; Retrieved October 8, 2013.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Tjeukemeer. on Qwika.com; Retrieved October 8, 2013.
3. ↑ Tjeukemeer. on friesland.org; Retrieved October 6, 2013.
4. ↑ THM00003 - Legend Tjeukemeer en three photos. on Nederlandse Volksverhalenbank; Retrieved October 15, 2013.
5. ↑ NME Conny Vandenbo's video. on NME.com; Retrieved October 8, 2013.