{"id":457,"date":"2016-04-27T11:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/?p=457"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:20:20","slug":"flooting-cellar-of-a-captain-homesick-for-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/en\/flooting-cellar-of-a-captain-homesick-for-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOOTING CELLAR OF A CAPTAIN HOMESICK FOR THE SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-Delfts-blauw-huisje-Edam-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 Delfts blauw huisje Edam\" width=\"153\" height=\"187\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-470\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-huis-frontaal-totaal-148x300.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 huis frontaal totaal\" width=\"90\" height=\"182\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-465\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-tuinkamer-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 tuinkamer\" width=\"271\" height=\"180\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-gevel-wapen-Karel-V-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 gevel wapen Karel V\" width=\"271\" height=\"180\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The city of Edam, only 18 kilometer from Amsterdam, has a rich history, which can be especially experienced in the Edam Museum, KLM House No. 20. In around 1540, a merchant had this stone house built in a late Gothic style on Damplein 8.\u00a0<\/span>The high, front part of the building served as a shop and workshop, while the rear had been divided into two floors. The kitchen was downstairs. The upper floor had six bed alcoves and was where the inhabitants lived. Next to the entrance, a\u00a0sandstone corbel with the arms of Emperor\u2019s Charles V (a double-headed eagle with the Order of the Golden Fleece) was set into the wall. It is quite possible that the first owner collected taxes on behalf of the emperor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-463\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-keuken-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 keuken\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-keuken-zicht-op-tuinkamer-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 keuken zicht op tuinkamer\" width=\"238\" height=\"162\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-keuken-drijvende-kelder-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 keuken drijvende kelder\" width=\"244\" height=\"162\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-459\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-geldkist-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 geldkist\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-458\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-alkoof-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 alkoof\" width=\"226\" height=\"167\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-466\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NR-20-voorhuis-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"NR 20 voorhuis\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The cellar was used\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">for storage. Regular flooding, however, made the cellar less than ideal. Years later, a subsequent owner provided the solution: a floating cellar. Measuring 3 x 3 x 2 meters, the watertight chamber rose and fell as the groundwater level changed with the seasons.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Local tales suggest that the floating cellar of Damplein 8 was built for a ship\u2019s captain. When he longed for the sea, he would stand on the cellar floor to feel the gentle rolling of the waves underfoot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The city of Edam, only 18 kilometer from Amsterdam, has a rich history, which can be especially experienced in the Edam Museum, KLM House No. 20. In around 1540, a merchant had this stone house built in a late Gothic style on Damplein 8.\u00a0The high, front part of the building served as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,19],"tags":[67,65],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","tag-klm-house","tag-urban-legend"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FLOOTING CELLAR OF A CAPTAIN HOMESICK FOR THE SEA - MarkMedia &amp; Art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/en\/flooting-cellar-of-a-captain-homesick-for-the-sea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FLOOTING CELLAR OF A CAPTAIN HOMESICK FOR THE SEA - MarkMedia &amp; Art\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The city of Edam, only 18 kilometer from Amsterdam, has a rich history, which can be especially experienced in the Edam Museum, KLM House No. 20. 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