The Lovink pumping station is a pumping station of the Zuiderzeeland Water Board in Biddinghuizen. The pumping station is located on Harderbosweg, between the Hoge Dwarsvaart canal and Veluwemeer Lake. Opposite the pumping station you will find De Blauwe Dromer lock, a lock for pleasure boats, and the hamlet of Harderhaven. Across the Veluwemeer is Harderwijk's marina.
The pumping station is named after Dr H.J. Lovink (1866-1938), the chairman of the state committee that prepared the reclamation of the Zuiderzee polders and was therefore involved in the construction of Proefpolder Andijk. The pumping station was commissioned in 1957 to drain the Eastern Flevoland polder together with the Colijn and Wortman pumping stations.
Above the entrance to the buil…
The Lovink pumping station is a pumping station of the Zuiderzeeland Water Board in Biddinghuizen. The pumping station is located on Harderbosweg, between the Hoge Dwarsvaart canal and Veluwemeer Lake. Opposite the pumping station you will find De Blauwe Dromer lock, a lock for pleasure boats, and the hamlet of Harderhaven. Across the Veluwemeer is Harderwijk's marina.
The pumping station is named after Dr H.J. Lovink (1866-1938), the chairman of the state committee that prepared the reclamation of the Zuiderzee polders and was therefore involved in the construction of Proefpolder Andijk. The pumping station was commissioned in 1957 to drain the Eastern Flevoland polder together with the Colijn and Wortman pumping stations.
Above the entrance to the building hangs a ceramic relief designed by J.M. Roosenburg, a son of the architect. It depicts a fisherman and a farmer shaking hands across a dike.
The pumping station was designated as the first national monument within the municipality of Dronten in 2010, under the List of monuments from the reconstruction period 1940-1958.
