r/ArchitecturalRevival

It's really big.

Yesterday I took these pictures of the fortified town of Elburg.

Elburg is a fairly small town, but what makes it special by Dutch standards is that it has one of the highest percentage of its historic city walls still intact, a rare sight in the Netherlands, where only a handful of other towns have remnants left, such as Harderwijk, Zwolle, and Maastricht. You can see this in the distinctive muurhuizen (wall houses) that are plentiful in Elburg. Most of these towns, Elburg, Harderwijk, and Zwolle are also Hanseatic cities, but they don't feature the typical Hanseatic style, because they are located in the Netherlands, they have the distinctly Dutch architectural style.

I blurred out some faces in Photoshop for privacy reasons.

Overall, it's a very charming small town that really showcases the old Dutch fortifications that most towns used to have.

I grew up in the rural cottage in the Yorkshire dales and still live in an old house like image 2. Whenever I'm around newer buildings or developments, I feel sense of strangeness and like I shouldn't be there. They also just look horrible imo.