The Kralingse Plas, located in Rotterdam's Kralingen district, The Kralingse Plas was created by the extraction of peat soil for peat. It was part of a series of 15 peat lakes that stretched north of the 's-Gravenweg from the Rotte river to Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel. Between 1865 and 1876, these lakes were drained to create the Prince Alexanderpolder. The then Noordplas was the only one spared. This was because the Noordplas was the deepest of the 15 lakes, and also some factories and residential houses were located at the lake. This made it too expensive to drain this lake. From 1895, the former Noord- or Boschplas was called Kralingse Plas. After World War II, a small part was filled in again with debris from the bombed city centre. This is how, for example, the islands in the south were created.The lake is surrounded on three sides by the Kralingse Bos. The east side is dominated by the so-called Plasmolens, De Lelie (from 1740) and De Ster (from 1886), two windmills that still grind spices. On the northwest side is a large recreational beach, a small part of which is a nudist beach. To the south runs the Kralingse Plaslaan, with at its western end apartment building Kralingen from 1938, the oldest high-rise in the area.
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