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Hindeloopen was granded town privileges in 1225 and in 1368 it became a member of the Hanseatic-league.
Since the 12th and 13th century, shippers of Hindeloopen undertook journeys to the North
and Baltic Sea Coasts. The strong overseas connections with foreign countries and infrequent
contact with the hinterland were probably the reasons for the developing of the Hindeloopen
language; a mixture of Frisian, English, Danish and Norwegian.
The shipping trade brought the population of Hindeloopen a great prosperity. The 17th and
18th century were especially golden times. At that time, the people of Hindeloopen spent a lot of money
in Amsterdam on precious fabrics and objects, which were supplied through the United
East-Indian Company (VOC). The rich town developed in those days her own costume and a completely
individual style with colorful painted walls and furniture.
In the small streets some seacaptains houses remind us of this time of glory. You can see a
anchor hanging on the facades of these houses, in those years a sign, that the captain
could still accept freight. In summertime when the captain was at sea, the captain's
wife lived with the children in the so called “Likhus”. A little house behind the captain's
house at the waterline.
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