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The Brede Buitenweg is circular route many animals use to get from the Schoolstraat/Oude Kerkstraat intersection, via Kloosterstraat to get to the city center.<ref name="Breed">{{CiteBook|DRO}}''Page 56''</ref> This road also extends to outside the city, going over the bridge over the [[#Brede Vaart|Brede Vaart]]<ref group="note">Can be inferred from the fact that Alfred is banished in his imagination in [[Alfred J. Kwak Episode 5|episode 5]] as being on the other side of the drawbridge that is later replaced by a stand-alone drawbridge. If we assume that Alfred's imagination is correct, and that according to [[De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak]] the road goes from in the direction of the city center past the old well, then the path must cross the bridge.</ref> and passing the old dried up [[#The well|well]]. Some kids pas through here to get to [[Polderstad primary school|school]].<ref name="Well">{{CiteBook|DRO}}''Page 47''</ref>
The Brede Buitenweg is circular route many animals use to get from the Schoolstraat/Oude Kerkstraat intersection, via Kloosterstraat to get to the city center.<ref name="Breed">{{CiteBook|DRO}}''Page 56''</ref> This road also extends to outside the city, going over the bridge over the [[#Brede Vaart|Brede Vaart]]<ref group="note">Can be inferred from the fact that Alfred is banished in his imagination in [[Alfred J. Kwak Episode 5|episode 5]] as being on the other side of the drawbridge that is later replaced by a stand-alone drawbridge. If we assume that Alfred's imagination is correct, and that according to [[De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak]] the road goes from in the direction of the city center past the old well, then the path must cross the bridge.</ref> and passing the old dried up [[#The well|well]]. Some kids pas through here to get to [[Polderstad primary school|school]].<ref name="Well">{{CiteBook|DRO}}''Page 47''</ref>
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Polderstad
Locations
"Polderstad"
Polderstad as depicted in the opening
LevelCity
CountryGroot Waterland
First appearanceEpisode 2
Name in different languages
Dutch namePolderstad
Japanese nameポルダー村 (Porudā-mura)
German nameDeichstadt
English nameTown of Polder


Polderstad is the city near which Alfred Jodocus Kwak's house is located, in the animated series. Many stories are set in this city and it's also the hometown of Ollie de Ooievaar, Pikkie de Ekster and the sparrow triplets, among others. It is located in the country of Groot Waterland.

Notable features

Different versions of Polderstad from different episodes. Above is from episode 4 (depicting it just as in production materials and the opening titles) and below is from episode 12.

Simultaneously an extremely small town featuring only several buildings (as it is depicted in the opening titles and during panning shots in episode 4 and episode 5 and also a much bigger town with many more buildings. The shipyard on top of which Ollie de Ooievaar's family's house is located is shown to be both part of the small version of this town, as well as the much bigger version.[1] Likely the viewer is not meant to take the small depiction as reality within the story.

Polderstad City Center

Schoolstraat

(lit. "Schoolstreet")

The Schoolstraat is the street which the primary school is on and contains an intersection with the Oude Kerkstraat close to the city center.[2] When looking for Dolf de Kraai after Alfred Jodocus Kwak had seen for the first time that Dolf uses shoe polish to paint his beak black, Alfred unknowingly dropped his schoolbag here. Finding his bag helped Henk de Mol to locate Alfred after he'd been missing for a while.[3]

The school

For more information, check the main article

The school is where Alfred Jodocus Kwak, Ollie de Ooievaar, Pikkie de Ekster, Dolf de Kraai and others went to school as primary school students. Meester Bas Buldog is the only teacher we see in the story, however in the book De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak he also mentions a cleaner called S. Bernard.[4][5][6]

Oude Kerkstraat

(lit. "Old Churchstreet")

The Oude Kerkstraat is a street that contains an intersection with the Schoolstraat. It contains several shops and restaurants, among which is Politiek Eetcafé De Struisvogel.[7]

Politiek Eetcafé De Struisvogel

(lit. "Political Diner The Ostrich")
For more information, check the main article

A restaurant for political debate owned by an ostrich, which also contains billiards tables. This is where Dolf de Kraai sometimes eats with Hannes and Wannes Snater, talking about his plans for setting up a political party. Dolf was questioned here by Holmes de Hond for the juwerely burglaries that happened in the neighborhood.[1][8]

Brede Buitenweg

(lit. "Wide Outsideroad")

The Brede Buitenweg is circular route many animals use to get from the Schoolstraat/Oude Kerkstraat intersection, via Kloosterstraat to get to the city center.[9] This road also extends to outside the city, going over the bridge over the Brede Vaart[note 1] and passing the old dried up well. Some kids pas through here to get to school.[10]

Vlier's apothecary

Kloosterstraat

(lit. "Monestarystreet")

The Kloosterstraat is a curved street into the city center.[9]

Library

The library is a place where Meester Bas Buldog borrows books regularly during his retirement from teaching. The librarian that works there is called Bella Peper-Hazenbloot.[11]

Vorige Burgemeesterplantsoen

(lit. "Previous Mayorpark")

This public garden is frequented by Meester Bas Buldog to find a nice place outside to read his books, right across the garden's pond. At this park he also met Anton Snorman.[12]

De Olkas Huisvloer Hallen

(lit. "The Olkas Housefloor Halls")


The bookstore

The antique shop

Polderstad-Noord

Bella Buldog's house

After retiring Meester Bas Buldog's daughter that lives in the suburbs of Polderstad-Noord invited him to live with her and her four children, especially since their father is at sea a lot. The house is a purchased home, very spacious with a garden and located near a wide field. Buldog decorated the four walls in his room with bookcases loaded with books, which also helped dampen the noise of the kids.[13] Before retiring Buldog also lived on the other side of Polderstad in a house that Bas Buldog didn't find very cosy.[14]

Polderstad Zuidoost

Henks mine house

For more information, check the main article

Polderstad-West

Anton Snorman's mansion

For more information, check the main article

Anton Snorman's mansion is a stately home set within a large containing several trees and a gazebo. It is one of the houses that was burgled and had it's jewelery stolen by Dolf de Kraai. Anton Snorman also has his fiancée comes over weekly.[1][15]

Near Polderstad

Alfred's clog house

For more information, check the main article

De Stompe Toren

(lit. "The Stubby Tower")
For more information, check the main article

The abandoned mill

The train station

Olympiad stadium

For more information, check the main article

Polderweg

(lit. "Polderroad")

In the book De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak this is the road where Alfred encounters Dolf at the start of Alfred's summer vacation after graduating from [[wikipedia:Middle school|middle school. After the encounter he talks to Amanda and then falls asleep, only to be awakened later by Henk de Mol.[16]

The well

For more information, check the main article

The well is a watering hole that was used in the middle ages. Dolf de Kraai falls into it as a child, being startled by Alfred Jodocus Kwak, and in an attempt to save him Alfred also falls down. Dolf breaks his wing and both are stuck down there, until Krabnagel de Kater tries to fish them out.[4][17] In an alternate telling of this story it is Henk de Mol who finds them, instead.[18]

History

Middle ages

Polderstad depicted as it was 800 years ago.

It is thought Polderstad was founded in the 6th century[note 2] and turned into a thriving independent city. 800 years ago in the 13th century the city was surrouned by high brick walls marking the edges between the city and the outside country. During this period the church that would ultimately include Ollie de Ooievaar's house had started construction.

Back then the market square was a place of social gathering; women, priests and soldiers coming back from far battlefields, minstrels singing songs about heroic deeds and merchants selling potatoes[note 3], spices, fruit, eggs, carrots, cabbage, wool, yarn and the like.[4][19]

During this time it was frowned upon to behave slightly differently than the norm. These animals would be pelted with stones and rotten fruit. Judges would even decide to banish those people or sentence them to death. Especially women weren't allowed to break from social norms, lest they be called a witch and burnt at the stake. The burnt remains of these witches would be deposited into the well nearby the city. Animals banished from Polderstad would also congregate there to be able to drink something outside of the city.[4][20]

Inhabitants

Appearances

TV Series

Audio

Books

Production background

The well is likely based on many old stories about being stuck down a well, as well as being stuck in down well in the game of the goose.

Emergency services take Dolf de Kraai away to treat his broken arm.

Notes

  1. ↑ Can be inferred from the fact that Alfred is banished in his imagination in episode 5 as being on the other side of the drawbridge that is later replaced by a stand-alone drawbridge. If we assume that Alfred's imagination is correct, and that according to De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak the road goes from in the direction of the city center past the old well, then the path must cross the bridge.
  2. ↑ The book De Droom van Alfred Jodocous Kwak makes this the 5th century, 1600 years ago.
  3. ↑ The book De Droom van Alfred Jodocous Kwak specifically addresses potatoes not being available to be sold in Groot Waterland during the 13th century as potatoes hadn't come overseas from Het Verre Westen (lit. "The Far East"). In the real world the potato was brought to Europe in 16th century.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "チェスの女王夢冒険 (Chesu no joō yume bōken)" [Queen of chess dream adventure]. Alfred J. Kwak. Season 1. Episode 12. 1989-06-19. TV Tokyo.
  2. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 33 and 168
  3. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 54, 74
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Op school" [In school]. Alfred J. Kwak. Season 1. Episode 4. 1990-07-01. VARA.
  5. ↑ "De olympiade" [The olympiad]. Alfred J. Kwak. Season 1. Episode 6. 1990-01-21. VARA.
  6. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Page 44
  7. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 167 and 168
  8. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 172-181
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Page 56
  10. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Page 47
  11. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 161-163
  12. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 159, 160 and 161
  13. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 156 - 160
  14. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 32 and 74
  15. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. On page 218 Krabnagel de Kater reveals that it's not just a girlfriend, but Anton Snorman's fiancée.
  16. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 16, 19, 26 and 73
  17. ↑ "De kater" [The tomcat]. Alfred J. Kwak. Season 1. Episode 5. 1990-01-14. VARA.
  18. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Page 75
  19. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 36-38
  20. ↑ van Veen, Herman; Holzhaus, Hanneke (1991). De Droom van Alfred Jodocus Kwak [Alfred Jodocus Kwak's Dream] (in Nederlands). Soest, the Netherlands: Harlekijn, Westbroek. ISBN 9063860862. Pages 45-47
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