Sundial Meelfabriek Leiden, Netherlands
Posted by: naj16
N 52° 09.539 E 004° 30.235
31U E 602875 N 5779787
Sundial at old flour factory "De Sleutels" in Leiden.
Waymark Code: WMGKGP
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 03/16/2013
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The Meelfabriek is an industrial complex of several large buildings that produced flour from different types of grain, brought in by boats on the canal. It grew in different phases from 1883 until 1988, when production was closed down for economical and political reasons.
The cluster of buildings was built on a bastion of the mediaeval fortification of Leiden, originally an open strip of land surrounding the city, which was in the course of the 19th and 20th century gradually developed into an industrial belt.
In the late 20th century most of the buildings on the industrial belt were dismantled, following the cities policy to establish a green belt of parkland.