The old pumping station house in the Bossche Broek in 's-Hertogenbosch on a winter afternoon.
The house was built in 1929 to serve as a pumping station; a device to bring water from a lower to a higher level. This makes the small building a 'pumping station house'. Small is not quite the right word, however, as an impressive cellar is concealed beneath the seemingly adorable little house, which still houses all the pumps. A gigantic yellow 'snail house' pumped the water that became too high in the polder directly to the Dommel. Such a pumping station was urgently needed at the beginning of the twentieth century to prevent the inner city from being flooded.
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Germany
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Germany
Netherlands
Germany
Germany
Germany
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Netherlands