Loon op Zand

Loon op Zand is a municipality and a village within the southern Netherlands. It had a populace of 23,090 in 2017. Loon op Zand is the oldest village of the municipality. Somewhere across the year 1000, this village became based in a very wet and swampy location. There become additionally loads of flow-sand whose starting place, consistent with geological experts, dates returned to the remaining ice age. As of this second, Loon op Zand has the largest driftsand place in all of western Europe. The presence of this driftsand explains the call of Loon op Zand. It way Village build on sand. Historically, the presence of this driftsand has triggered the relocation of the village on several times.

Hinerland farmers construct many sandy embankments or levies to guard their land in opposition to the ceaseless drifting sand. For two hundred years, Loon op Zand and Kaatsheuvel were the centre of the leather tanning and shoe production industry of the place. There had been a number of factories; most of these have been in human beings's backyards. There have been a few large shoe producers like Van Lier. This global-well-known shoe emblem originated in Loon op Zand. Just prior to the brand new millennium, Van Lier abandoned their factory in Loon op Zand and moved to a bigger factory in Breda.