Every design for Oude Pekela
Wear your town with pride
13 unique designs from the town of Oude Pekela in Groningen – map designs, local expressions and symbols only people who know the place will read. Also available as t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt or tote bag.
T-shirt
from 249 SEK
Hoodie
from 449 SEKSweatshirt
from 449 SEKTote bag
from 129 SEKAbout Oude Pekela
Peat colony
Cardboard industry
Pekelderdiep
Oude Pekela was laid out on paper before it was built: a peat colony along the river Pekel A, divided into lots and later governed by the city of Groningen, which marked out every side canal to the metre. The river was canalised into the Pekelderdiep, and the village still follows its line as one long ribbon of houses along the water, about five kilometres south-west of Winschoten.
The artwork Scheepsjagers is a reminder that this canal was once a working waterway, and a road to the world. Once the peat ran out, local skippers sailed to Holland, England, the Baltic and the Mediterranean, and boat builders lined the banks. Later Oude Pekela became the centre of the cardboard and potato starch industry, and the statue of Fré Meis honours the man who led its workers in their strikes. Away from the canal, the Pekelderbos and the park Emergo offer green space.
It is a village built by hard work, and its statues say so. Take Scheepsjagers with you and you carry the whole story: the peat, the boats, the canal leading out to sea.
Shown on the map
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Coordinates: 53.1074°N, 7.0139°E
