Rutten is a village in the central

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. It is located in

Noordoostpolder Noordoostpolder (; ) is a polder and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Formerly, it was also called ''Urk, Urker Land''. Emmeloord is the administrative center, located in the hea ...

Flevoland Flevoland () is the twelfth and newest 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. 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, are public utility buildings containing pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. They are critical in a variety of infrastructure systems, such as water supply, Land reclamation, ...

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 hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...

''. 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 A sluice ( ) is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level. There are various types of sluice gates, including flap sluice gates and fan gates. Different depths are calculated when design s ...

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

Sports

Rutten has an amateur soccer club 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