Port of Oudenbosch

Oudenbosch owes its origins to peat cutting. Here, peat traders transferred their production from peat barges to larger ships. These brought it further away. The modest peat harbour, built in 1300 by the Cistercians of Bernardus Abbey, suddenly became much more important in the Middle Ages.

For centuries, you could safely travel overland from Antwerp to
Holland travel. Until the Elisabeth Flood of 1421. The
country road to Holland had suddenly become an inland sea.
Oudenbosch with its harbour benefited. The
boat connection Oudenbosch - Dordrecht was now the 'highway'
between Holland and the Southern Netherlands. And another
Beautiful story of the port: when the Basilica was built
the Oudenboschers from here carried the bricks through
the village to the construction site.
The inland sea has long since become polder again. But the harbour
of Oudenbosch is still a place full of movement, where you can
can touch history and where pleasure boating for
liveliness.
See more: along the Kade you can still find all kinds of monumental
facades and houses, telling of life around the port:
peat shipping, trading, fishing, sugar beet growing and beer brewing.