Edam is a picturesque town located directly on the eastern shore of the Markermeer, just 20 kilometers from Amsterdam. It is world-famous for its Edam cheese with its red rind. This small, idyllic town in the province of North Holland was once the center of Dutch cheese exports. Although cheese is no longer produced there today, this tradition is commemorated not only by the cheese museum “The Story of Edam Cheese,” but also by the cheese market, which takes place every Wednesday morning from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. for eight weeks in the summer at the Kaashal on Jan van Nieuwenhuizen Plein. This is a real spectacle, as the cheese is delivered by boat and horse-drawn carriage, as in the old days, and unloaded by cheese carriers in their traditional white costumes with straw hats, before the cheese wheels are transported on wheelbarrows to the cheese scales and paid for by the kilo. However, Edam was not only known for the cheese trade, but also for shipbuilding, which brought prosperity to the city. The old gabled houses from the 16th and 17th centuries still bear witness to this today. One of these is the Steenen Coopmanshuis, built in 1550. This was the first merchant’s house in Edam and is also the oldest stone house in Edam, located at the Damsluis lock. It not only houses part of the Edam Museum, but also a floating cellar. Edam used to be located on the old Zuiderzee, which meant that the cellars were constantly flooded when the water level was high and during high tide. To overcome this problem, a floating cellar was built. Thanks to a waterproof brick construction, the floor of the cellar floated on the groundwater and thus adapted to the rising and falling water level. The Edam Museum provides information about the life of a merchant in the 16th century. In the merchant’s house, you can admire the merchant’s office with its money chest and payment table. Directly opposite is the town hall, built of purple stone, with the other part of the Edam Museum, where you can marvel at the merchant’s period rooms. Not far from there is the Grote Kerk or Sint Nicolaaskerk from the 15th century, whose magnificent 17th-century stained glass windows are among the most beautiful in the Netherlands. Edam is also home to one of the last remaining bascule bridges, the Kwakelbrug, from which you have a great view over the water, the old shipyard, and the Speeltoten, a tower of the former Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk with a magnificent carillon. During my walk through Edam with its narrow streets, beautiful gabled houses, many narrow canals, drawbridges, teak domes, and historic buildings, I felt like I was in an open-air museum because there was so much to discover.
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