Rutten is a village in the central

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. It is located in

Noordoostpolder Noordoostpolder (; en, "North-East Polder") is a polder and municipality in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Formerly, it was also called '' Urker Land''. Emmeloord is the administrative center, located in the heart of the Noord ...

Flevoland Flevoland () is the twelfth and youngest province of the Netherlands, established in 1986, when the southern and eastern Flevopolders, together with the Noordoostpolder, were merged into one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the countr ...

, about 8 km northwest of

Emmeloord Emmeloord is the administrative centre of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands. In 2019, it had a population of 26,055. Overview At the heart of the Noordoostpolder, where the three main drainage canals Lemstervaart, Urk ...

. It was founded in 1952.

History

In order to create the

, sluices and pumping stations had to be built. Preliminary work began in 1936. The

pumping station Pumping stations, also called pumphouses in situations such as well drilling, drilled wells and drinking water, are facilities containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are used for a variety of infrastru ...

Buma was constructed between 1939 and 1941, and is one of the three original pumping stations for the ''

polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed # Flood plains s ...

''. Buma is a fire and bomb proof building which contains three pumps. Each pump can move of water per minute. The Lemstersluis which is often called Frisian

sluice Sluice ( ) is a word for a channel controlled at its head by a movable gate which is called a sluice gate. A sluice gate is traditionally a wood or metal barrier sliding in grooves that are set in the sides of the waterway and can be considered ...

was completed on 10 November 1940 and is located next to the pumping house. The sluice can move ships up to . The plan for the village was approved in 1952, and construction started the same year. It has been laid out around a square. The village was named after the drowned village of Rutten, a church village near

Nagele Nagele is a village in the Dutch province of Flevoland. It is a part of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, and lies about 10 km south of Emmeloord. History Nagele was designed by the architectural team "De 8" between 1948 and 1954. The ...

. The village was designed for a 1,000 people, but has already surpassed that.

Sports

Rutten has an amateur

soccer club In Association football, a football club (or association football club, alternatively soccer club) is a sports club that acts as an entity through which association football teams organise their sporting activities. The club can exist either as a ...

called Rutten Komt Op (RKO), a tennis club called TCR, a volleyball club called Rutten '88, a cue sports club, rowing sports teams, a Motor Club called MC NOP, and an ice skate club called STC Rutten.

Gallery

File:Gemaal Buma (2013) -056.JPG, Pumping station Buma File:Rutten - Schotbalkeninstallatie + sluis.JPG, The Frisian sluice File:EnsNOPolder1946.jpg, Temporary church. Moved to Rutten in 1953 File:Social sofa Rutten (1).jpg, Social sofa

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Flevoland Noordoostpolder 1952 establishments in the Netherlands