Pothead Deventer in the purple night. by Bart Ros

About "Pothead Deventer in the purple night."

by Bart Ros

About the artwork

Het Pothoofd is a quay and a neighborhood in Deventer, located on the IJssel, directly south of the center. The area is sandwiched between the city center, the Raambuurt and Knutteldorp. The Pothoofd nowadays consists of two parts. The southern part was completely redesigned as a residential area after 2005. The Pothoofd road has been given a completely new location. The transhipment quay on the northern part was renovated in 2011 and made suitable for mooring passenger ships. There was a striking work of art: the Visman.

The Pothoofd used to be a bustling transhipment quay, now there are seven apartment flats by the Belgian architect Jo Crepain and there is a mooring place for river cruise ships. The street pattern has changed considerably. Large cranes and silos once stood here and there was a bunkering place for cargo ships and a railway yard. Steam trams left from their own station to Zutphen, Borculo and Emmerik.

The station building, now the neighborhood building of the 'Wijk16' Playground Association, is one of the few places that still reminds us of the hustle and bustle of that time. In the 18th century - due to shipping to America and the transhipment of grain on the quay of the Pothoofd - the small evening primrose ended up on this site as an occasional plant. Since then, floristic literature has known the term pot-head plant as a synonym for adventitious plant.

The name Pothoofd is derived from the so-called potters, small flat-bottomed ships, which moore