Squatting in the Netherlands
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File:ACU_outside.jpg in Utrecht, squatted 1976 and bought 1994]]
Squatting in the Netherlands (Dutch: kraken) is the occupation of unused or derelict buildings or land without the permission of the owner. The modern squatters movement (Dutch: kraakbeweging) began in the 1960s in the Netherlands. By the 1980s, it had become a powerful anarchist social movement which regularly came into conflict with the state, particularly in Amsterdam with the Vondelstraat and coronation riots.
Some squats in cities have successfully legalised into still extant social centres and housing cooperatives such as ACU in Utrecht, the Grote Broek in Nijmegen, the Landbouwbelang in Maastricht, ORKZ in Groningen, the Poortgebouw in Rotterdam and Vrankrijk in Amsterdam. There have also been squats in the countryside such as Fort Pannerden and the Ruigoord village.
Squatting was criminalised in October 2010. Between then and November 2014, 529 people were arrested. Some recent high-profile evictions have included ADM, the Tabakspanden and De Vloek. The social movement continues in diminished form, with squatting still being used by certain groups, for example the migrant collective We Are Here.
Beginnings
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many workers lost their jobs and were unable to pay rent. This resulted in people occupying houses in order to force a rental agreement, although they did not see themselves as a housing movement. Their legal justification was based on a 1914 decision by the Supreme Court which ruled that in order to show residential use in a property, all that was needed was a chair, a table and a bed.{{cite book |last1=Owens |first1=Lynn |title=Cracking under pressure : narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters' movement |date=2009 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park, PA |isbn=9780271034638 |pages=46–48}}
Squatting in the Netherlands in its modern form has its origins in the 1960s, when the country was suffering a housing shortage whilst at the same time many properties stood derelict. Property owners kept buildings empty in order to speculate and drive the market price upwards.{{cite web |url=http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/555-squatting-in-amsterdam |title=Squatting in Amsterdam |publisher=DutchAmsterdam.nl |date=19 January 2009 |access-date=2014-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427185043/http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/555-squatting-in-amsterdam |archive-date=27 April 2014 |url-status=live }} As youth protest movements burgeoned, in particular Provo movement, squatting became seen as a political, anti-speculation protest. Marking the emergence of a squatters movement (Dutch: kraakbeweging) which focused upon collective action rather than individual initiatives, the term for squatting changed from "secret occupation" (Dutch: clandestien bezetten) to "cracking" (Dutch: kraken) and squatters became known as krakers.{{cite journal |url=http://repub.eur.nl/pub/25656 |last=Pruijt |first=Hans |title=Logic of Urban Squatting |journal=International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |pages=1–8 |date=2011 |access-date=2019-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305025411/http://repub.eur.nl/pub/25656 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=live }}
As well as mobilising the 1914 decision, squatters employed a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that the concept of domestic peace (Dutch: huisvrede) required permission from the current occupant for anybody else to enter a property. This meant that property owners were required to evict squatters by taking them to court, instead of forcing entry.{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39463891 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003171656/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39463891 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |title=Violent protests after Dutch outlaw squatting – Once-respected tradition of living in unused buildings is now a crime |publisher=NBC News |date=1 October 2010 |access-date=2014-04-27 }} This came about after squatters in Nijmegen were evicted from a property and prosecuted by the owner, who claimed that since the house was for sale it was in use. The squatters were convicted of an offence but appealed the decision and ultimately the Supreme Court ruled that a "on the basis of normal language use, 'a house in use' can only mean 'a house in use as a house'".{{cite book |last1=Owens |first1=Lynn |title=Cracking under pressure : narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters' movement |date=2009 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park, PA |isbn=9780271034638 |pages=50}}
Consolidation
File:Poortgebouw - Rotterdam, Holland - panoramio.jpg in Rotterdam.]]
The squatting movement took on an increasingly anarchist tone during the 1980s. In the Vondelstraat Riots, police moved to evict residents from a squatted building on the corner of Vondelstraat in Amsterdam, but it was immediately reoccupied and barricades erected. Street fights ensued between riot police and the squatters, with the building only being cleared when a military tank demolished the street barricades. Queen Beatrix's coronation later that year saw more riots when squatters chanted "No home, no coronation" (Dutch: Geen woning, geen kroning). In Groningen the eviction of the WNC (Wolters-Noordhoff Complex) squat in 1990 led to 137 arrests and the mayor called it war.{{cite news |last1=Vermeulen |first1=Frank |title=Groningen en de nasleep van de krakersrellen; Het einde vaneen vrijstaat |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/1990/06/30/groningen-en-de-nasleep-van-de-krakersrellen-het-einde-6934231-a286135 |access-date=21 April 2019 |quote='Het is oorlog', zei burgemeester Staatsen destijds. |work=NRC |date=30 June 1990 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421114252/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/1990/06/30/groningen-en-de-nasleep-van-de-krakersrellen-het-einde-6934231-a286135 |archive-date=21 April 2019 |url-status=live }}
Some squats have gone through a process of legalisation, in which the building becomes owned or rented by the former squatters. In Amsterdam, the city council bought 200 buildings in the early 1980s, handing them over to housing associations which then made contracts with individual tenants. The Poortgebouw in Rotterdam was squatted in 1980 and two years later the inhabitants agreed to pay rent to the city council, forming a housing cooperative of 30 people with a bar and alternative venue on the ground floor.{{cite book |last=Dee |first=E.T.C. |date=2018 |title=Squatting the Grey City |location=Rotterdam |publisher=Cobble Books |isbn=9780244385804}} In Amsterdam, OCCII, OT301 and Vrankrijk are all examples of legalised social centres. In the 2010s, Vrankrijk hosts mainly punk and queer parties.{{cite journal |last1=Eleftheriadis |first1=K |s2cid=143589966 |title=Organizational Practices and Prefigurative Spaces in European Queer Festivals |journal=Social Movement Studies |date=2015 |volume=14 |issue=6 |pages=651–667 |doi=10.1080/14742837.2015.1029045}} The NDSM former shipyard zone was recognised as a cultural hotspot and breeding place, successfully institutionalising in the early 2000s.{{cite book |last1=Draaisma |first1=Jaap|year= 2015|chapter=Cultural Incubators: The squats of the 21st century?|editor1-last=Mamadouh |editor1-first=Virginie |editor2-last= van Wageningen|editor2-first= Anne |title= Urban Europe: Fifty Tales of the City|language= en |publisher= Amsterdam University Press |isbn=9789462984905}} The Grote Broek in Nijmegen was squatted in 1984 and legalised in the 2000s. The ACU in Utrecht was squatted in 1976 and bought by the squatters in 1994. It provides a venue space for benefit concerts, an anarchist library, a bar and a vegan restaurant.{{Citation |last=Poldervaart |first=Saskia |chapter=The connection between the squatter, queer and alterglobalization movement. The many diversities of multiculturalism |title=New Social Movements and Sexuality |editor1-first=M |editor1-last=Chateauvert |location=Sofia|publisher=Bilitis Resource Center |year=2006 }} ORKZ, or the Old Roman Catholic Hospital (Dutch: Oude Rooms-Katholieke Ziekenhuis), is located in Groningen on the Verlengde Hereweg. The hospital was squatted in August 1979 and legalised in 1986. As of 2004, 250 people lived there in 235 apartments. Another 150 people made use of the ateliers.{{cite news |last1=Riemersma |first1=Greta |title=Lage huren en de droom kunnen blijven dromen |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/lage-huren-en-de-droom-kunnen-blijven-dromen~b7e0d9c2/ |access-date=21 April 2019 |work=Volkskrant |date=10 September 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421172503/https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/lage-huren-en-de-droom-kunnen-blijven-dromen~b7e0d9c2/ |archive-date=21 April 2019 |url-status=live }} A derelict parking lot was taken over and made into a guerilla garden. Herbs and vegetables were grown in raised beds, fruit bushes were planted and an apiary was set up. The garden was legalised by the city council in 2012.{{cite journal |last1=Spijker |first1=S. N. |last2=Parra |first2=C. |s2cid=157515533 |title=Knitting green spaces with the threads of social innovation in Groningen and London |journal=Journal of Environmental Planning and Management |date=2017 |volume=61 |issue=5–6 |pages=1011–1032 |doi=10.1080/09640568.2017.1382338 }}
File:20090624 Verlengde Hereweg 92 (ORKZ) Groningen NL.jpg
There are also squats which refused or were unable to legalise such as De Blauwe Aanslag in The Hague, Het Slaakhuis in Rotterdam, ADM in Amsterdam and the Landbouwbelang in Maastricht. The Landbouwbelang is a former grain silo beside the Meuse ({{langx|nl|Maas}}) river which houses 15 people and provides space for art exhibitions, music events and various festivals.{{cite news |last1=Freriks |first1=Cleo |title=We are a rainbow-like community |url=https://www.observantonline.nl/English/Home/Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10290/We-are-a-rainbow-like-community |access-date=7 June 2020 |work=Observant |date=13 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607151045/https://www.observantonline.nl/English/Home/Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10290/We-are-a-rainbow-like-community |archive-date=7 June 2020 |url-status=live }} Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg in Leiden was occupied in 1968 and eventually evicted in 2010. The complex, which included a bar, a freeshop, a library meeting rooms and offices for a group supporting illegal migrants, had been negotiating with the city council in order to legalise its activities until the talks stalled in 2008.{{cite news |last1=Reijn |first1=Gerard |last2=Sahadat |first2=Ianthe |title=Voor anarchisten en een enkele bal (Dutch) |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/voor-anarchisten-en-een-enkele-bal~bba6d894/ |access-date=11 October 2020 |work=Volkskrant |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415204739/https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/voor-anarchisten-en-een-enkele-bal~bba6d894/ |archive-date=15 April 2019 |url-status=live }}{{subscription required}}
There are also some squats in the countryside such as a squatted village called Ruigoord near Amsterdam. Fort Pannerden (a military fort built in 1869 near to Nijmegen) was occupied in 2000 by people concerned about the state of the building. It was evicted on November 8, 2006, by a massive police operation which used military machinery and cost one million euros.{{cite web |url=http://www.nu.nl/news/878312/10/Politie_hervat_ontruiming_Fort_Pannerden.html |title=Politie hervat ontruiming Fort Pannerden |publisher=Nu.nl |date=2006-11-08 |access-date=2012-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226181626/http://www.nu.nl/news/878312/10/Politie_hervat_ontruiming_Fort_Pannerden.html |archive-date=2008-02-26 |url-status=live }} The fort was then re-squatted and the occupiers discussed a settlement with the local council and Staatsbosbeheer, the owner.{{cite web |url=http://www.nu.nl/news/900535/10/Fort_Pannerden_voorlopig_niet_ontruimd.html |title=Fort Pannerden voorlopig niet ontruimd |publisher=Nu.nl |date=2006-11-27 |access-date=2012-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227070050/http://www.nu.nl/news/900535/10/Fort_Pannerden_voorlopig_niet_ontruimd.html |archive-date=2008-02-27 |url-status=live }}
Developments
File:Giveaway shop utrecht front.jpg in Utrecht, 2004]]
In 1987, the law was changed so that an owner could take anonymous squatters to court, rather than being required to know their names.{{cite news |last1=Beale |first1=Sam |title=WHAT'S THE KRAAK? As in the UK, squatting in Holland entails knowing the law and exploring the loopholes. |url=http://squallmagazine.com/f/f10-42-whats-the-kraak.html |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=SQUALL |issue=10 |date=1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830103249/http://squallmagazine.com/f/f10-42-whats-the-kraak.html |archive-date=30 August 2019}} A law was passed in 1994 which made it illegal to squat a building which had been empty for less than one year.{{cite journal |url=http://repub.eur.nl/pub/466/ |last=Pruijt |first=Hans |year=2003 |title=Is the institutionalization of urban movements inevitable? A comparison of the opportunities for sustained squatting in New York City and Amsterdam |journal=International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=133–57 |doi=10.1111/1468-2427.00436 |hdl=1765/19213 |hdl-access=free |access-date=2019-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828235245/https://repub.eur.nl/pub/466/ |archive-date=2019-08-28 |url-status=live }} After this, it became conventional for squatters to call the police after occupying a building and if the police were satisfied that the building had been empty for more than a year and that the squatters were living there (as evidenced by having a chair, a table and a bed) then the owner would need to make a court case to regain possession. Thus, squatting became a tactic to provide housing and also to fight speculation, conserve monumental buildings, provide groups with spaces and so on. An example of conservational squatting is Huize Ivicke in Wassenaar, a building which the owner refuses to repair. The villa was placed on a list of the most endangered monuments in Europe and it was squatted in 2018 by people wanting to prevent further dilapidation.{{cite news |last1=Robroek |first1=Roman |title=Photographing Huize Ivicke in Wassenaar |url=https://romanrobroek.nl/photographing-huize-ivicke-in-wassenaar/ |access-date=30 June 2020 |work=Urban Photography by Roman Robroek |date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610134210/https://romanrobroek.nl/photographing-huize-ivicke-in-wassenaar/ |archive-date=10 June 2020 |url-status=live }}
Squatting in the Netherlands, particularly in Amsterdam, became a rather institutionalised process, although the squatters movement continued to evolve with one development being the occupation of large office buildings by refugee collectives.{{cite journal |last1=Uitermark |first1=Justus |title=The co-optation of squatters in Amsterdam and the emergence of a movement meritocracy: a critical reply to Pruijt |journal=International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |date=September 2004 |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=687–698 |doi=10.1111/j.0309-1317.2004.00543.x}}{{cite news |last1=Boer |first1=René |title=Squatting: historical movement or contemporary tactic? |url=https://www.archined.nl/2017/08/squatting-historical-movement-or-contemporary-tactic/ |access-date=28 September 2019 |work=Archined |date=7 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902160839/https://www.archined.nl/2017/08/squatting-historical-movement-or-contemporary-tactic/ |archive-date=2 September 2019 |language=en}} One such group, We Are Here was established in 2012 and the collective had squatted over 30 buildings and parks by the end of 2017.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2FTCwAAQBAJ&q=ontruiming+%22wij+zijn+hier%22+amsterdam&pg=PT82 |title = EU@Amsterdam: Een stedelijke raad|isbn = 9789048531448|last1 = Mamadouh|first1 = Virginie|last2 = Wageningen|first2 = Anne van|date = 2016-01-05| publisher=Amsterdam University Press }}{{cite news |last1=Wolthuizen |first1=Josien |last2=Koops |first2=Ruben |title=We Are Here: Vijf jaar later nog geen stap verder |url=https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/we-are-here-vijf-jaar-later-nog-geen-stap-verder~bdbdf167/ |access-date=10 May 2019 |work=Parool |date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510200206/https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/we-are-here-vijf-jaar-later-nog-geen-stap-verder~bdbdf167/ |archive-date=10 May 2019 |url-status=live }} In a different development, squatting was used as a tool to contest the construction of the Betuweroute, a freight railway route from Rotterdam to Germany. {{ill|GroenFront!|nl|GroenFront!}} and other environmental protestors occupied several houses due to be demolished. This included a failed attempt to squat a building in Angeren.{{cite news |last1=Dinther |first1=Mac van |title=Weer is Betuwelijn dag vertraagd |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/mensen/weer-is-betuwelijn-dag-vertraagd~b694d939/ |access-date=28 September 2019 |work=de Volkskrant |date=5 April 2000 |language=nl-NL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928152926/https://www.volkskrant.nl/mensen/weer-is-betuwelijn-dag-vertraagd~b694d939/ |archive-date=28 September 2019 |url-status=live }}
Criminalisation
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Squatting in the Netherlands became a criminal offence on 1 October 2010. In 2016, a report was published by the Dutch Government which stated that between October 2010 and November 2014, 529 people had been arrested for the new crime of squatting, in 213 separate incidents. Of these arrested, 210 received convictions and 42 were found not guilty.{{cite web |last1=Dee |first1=E.T.C. |title=The vacancy crunch: The current housing crisis in the Netherlands and the repression of squatting |url=http://www.cnsjournal.org/the-vacancy-crunch-the-current-housing-crisis-in-the-netherlands-and-the-repression-of-squatting/ |website=CNS Journal |access-date=10 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629160016/http://www.cnsjournal.org/the-vacancy-crunch-the-current-housing-crisis-in-the-netherlands-and-the-repression-of-squatting/ |archive-date=29 June 2019 |language=en|date=2016-05-14 }}
Following criminalisation, in Amsterdam an estimated 330 squats were evicted in two years.{{cite news |title=Amsterdam ontruimt 330 panden sinds kraakwet |url=https://www.rd.nl/amsterdam-ontruimt-330-panden-sinds-kraakwet-1.259316 |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=Reformatorisch Dagblad |agency=ANP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830180133/https://www.rd.nl/amsterdam-ontruimt-330-panden-sinds-kraakwet-1.259316 |archive-date=30 August 2019 |language=nl |quote=In totaal zijn in Amsterdam sinds de invoering van de nieuwe wet Kraken en Leegstand in oktober 2010, 330 kraakpanden ontruimd.}} Contested evictions included ADM, the Tabakspanden on Spuistraat, the Valreep and Villa Friekens.{{cite news |last1=Beentjes |first1=Jesse |title=Op het ADM-terrein kleur je buiten de lijntjes |url=https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/op-het-adm-terrein-kleur-je-buiten-de-lijntjes~b01802fe/ |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=Parool |date=14 August 2016 |language=nl |quote=De afgelopen jaren is Amsterdam een aantal van zijn vrijplaatsen binnen de stad kwijtgeraakt: het Slangenpand aan de Spuistraat werd ontruimd, de Valreep in Oost moest plaatsmaken voor woningbouw en Villa Friekens in Noord werd verlaten voordat de ME eraan te pas kwam. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830142330/https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/op-het-adm-terrein-kleur-je-buiten-de-lijntjes~b01802fe/ |archive-date=30 August 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Laatste Circus in Vrijhaven ADM |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/08/13/laatste-circus-in-vrijhaven-adm-12515681-a1569833 |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=NRC |date=13 August 2017 |language=nl}} ADM was a former shipyard squatted for 21 years before its eventual eviction in 2019. Around 130 people lived there in buildings, boats and temporary structures.{{cite news |last1=Derks |first1=Sanne |title=Squatters in Amsterdam lose free haven |url=https://www.dw.com/en/squatters-in-amsterdam-lose-free-haven/g-47004213 |access-date=7 June 2020 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=9 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203005955/https://www.dw.com/en/squatters-in-amsterdam-lose-free-haven/g-47004213 |archive-date=3 February 2019 |url-status=live }} De Vloek social centre in The Hague was evicted in September 2015 after long political struggle. There were seven arrests.{{cite news |last1=Klaassen |first1=Nils |title=Einde van een tijdperk: laatste uren De Vloek |url=https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/einde-van-een-tijdperk-laatste-uren-de-vloek~a9f65e76/ |access-date=25 April 2020 |work=AD |date=7 September 2015 |quote="Het is een beloning voor slecht gedrag," vindt VVD-fractieleider Martin Wörsdörfer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225162901/https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/einde-van-een-tijdperk-laatste-uren-de-vloek~a9f65e76/ |archive-date=25 February 2020 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Mulders |first1=Angelique |title=Zeven arrestaties bij ontruiming kraakpand De Vloek |url=https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/zeven-arrestaties-bij-ontruiming-kraakpand-de-vloek~aca98842/ |access-date=7 June 2020 |work=Algemeen Dagblad |date=9 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607154503/https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/zeven-arrestaties-bij-ontruiming-kraakpand-de-vloek~aca98842/ |archive-date=7 June 2020 |url-status=live }} In Utrecht, the disused Amsterdamsestraatweg Water Tower was occupied repeatedly in protest at the criminalisation of squatting. In 2019, a resquat was unsuccessful.{{cite news |title=Kraakpoging bij watertoren Amsterdamsestraatweg mislukt |url=https://www.nu.nl/utrecht/5980299/kraakpoging-bij-watertoren-amsterdamsestraatweg-mislukt.html |access-date=30 August 2019 |work=NU |agency=DUIC |date=19 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830143010/https://www.nu.nl/utrecht/5980299/kraakpoging-bij-watertoren-amsterdamsestraatweg-mislukt.html |archive-date=30 August 2019 |language=nl |quote=Een poging om de watertoren aan de Amsterdamsestraatweg te kraken is zondagmiddag mislukt.}}
Table of notable squats
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|+{{sronly|Squatting in the Netherlands}} |
| scope="col" |Name
! scope="col" |Location ! scope="col" |History (green=ongoing, pink=closed) ! scope="col" |Reference |
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| scope=row| ACU
| Utrecht | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1976, legalized 1994 |
| scope=row| ADM
| Amsterdam | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1997, evicted 2019 | {{cite news | last = Kallenberg | first = Freek | date = 1997-11-14 | title = Oude Tijden Herleven op De Adm / The old times relive, at the ADM | url = http://www.ravagedigitaal.org/1997/246/Oude_tijden_her246.htm | url-status = live | work = Ravage 246 | location = Amsterdam | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200717145853/http://www.ravagedigitaal.org/1997/246/Oude_tijden_her246.htm | archive-date = July 17, 2020 | access-date = 2019-02-21 }} [https://adm.amsterdam/content/1997-11-14-oude-tijden-herleven-op-de-adm-old-times-relive-adm Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602020057/https://adm.amsterdam/content/1997-11-14-oude-tijden-herleven-op-de-adm-old-times-relive-adm |date=2019-06-02 }} |
| scope=row| Amsterdamsestraatweg Water Tower
| Utrecht | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1980s, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 | {{cite web |title=De Watertoren Utrecht – Amsterdamsestraatweg |url=http://www.watertoren.nu/ |website=De Watertoren |access-date=10 May 2020 |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304230429/http://www.watertoren.nu/ |archive-date=4 March 2020 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Redactie |title=Krakers veroordeeld voor actie bij Utrechtse watertoren op de Amsterdamsestraatweg |url=https://www.duic.nl/algemeen/krakers-veroordeel-voor-actie-bij-utrechtse-watertoren/ |access-date=10 May 2020 |work=De Utrechtse Internet Courant |date=19 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200304232459/https://www.duic.nl/algemeen/krakers-veroordeel-voor-actie-bij-utrechtse-watertoren/ |archive-date=4 March 2020}} |
| scope=row| ASCII
| Amsterdam | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|various squats 1999–2006 |
| scope=row| Blauwe Aanslag
| The Hague | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1980, evicted 2003 |
| scope=row| Effenaar
| Eindhoven | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1970, legalized 1971 |
| scope=row| Fort Pannerden
| Near Nijmegen | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 2000, evicted 2006, resquatted 2006, legalized 2006, renovated 2009 |
| scope=row| Grote Broek
| Nijmegen | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1984, legalized 2000s |
| scope=row| Huize Ivicke
| Wassenaar | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 2018 |
| scope=row| Landbouwbelang
| Maastricht | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 2002 | {{cite book |last1=Janssen |first1=Bert|date=29 September 2013|title=Cultural Freezone Landbouwbelang |url=http://www.bertjanssen.eu/essays/2014/02/cultural-freezone-landbouwbelang/|language=nl |location=Maastricht |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225011033/http://www.bertjanssen.eu/essays/2014/02/cultural-freezone-landbouwbelang/ |archive-date=25 February 2019|publisher=Organic Press |isbn= 978-90-75924-12-1}} |
| scope=row| Moira
| Utrecht | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1983, later legalized |
| scope=row| NDSM
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1990s, legalized 2000s |
| scope=row| OCCII
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1984, legalized 1989 |
| scope=row| OT301
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1999, legalized 2006 |
| scope=row| Poortgebouw
| Rotterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1980, legalized 1982 |
| scope=row| Ruigoord
| Near Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1972 |
| scope=row| Slaakhuis
| Rotterdam | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 2003, evicted 2011 |
| scope=row| Tabakspanden
| Amsterdam | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|variously squatted 1983 onwards, all evicted 2015 |
| scope=row| Tetterode
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 1981, legalized 1986 |
| scope=row| Ubica
| Utrecht | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1992, evicted 2013 |
| scope=row| Vloek
| The Hague | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"|squatted 2002, evicted 2015 |
| scope=row| Vossiustraat 16 (squat)
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 2022 |
| scope=row| Vrankrijk
| Amsterdam | style="background:#CEF2E0; border:1px solid #A3BFB1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1982, legalized 1991 |
| scope=row| Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg
| Leiden | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1968, evicted 2010 |
| scope=row| WNC
| Groningen | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1985, evicted 1990 |
| scope=row| Wyers
| Amsterdam | style="background:#FEE7E6; border:1px solid #BFA3B1; padding:1em; margin:auto;"| squatted 1981, evicted 1984 |
See also
References
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Further reading
- ADILKNO (1994) Cracking The Movement {{ISBN|9780936756752}} Also available [http://thing.desk.nl/bilwet/Cracking/contents.html online]
- Bouwknecht et al. (2005) Witboek Kraken {{ISBN|9789067282284}}
- Breek et al. (2001) Laat 1000 Vrijplaatsen Bloien – Onderzoek naar vrijplaatsen in Amsterdam {{ISBN|9080455636}}
- Buchholz, T. (2016) [https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/34229014/Complete_thesis.pdf Struggling for recognition and affordable housing in Amsterdam and Hamburg: resignation, resistance, relocation](PhD)
- Dee, E.T.C. (2015) [https://medium.com/urban-design-and-planning/flowers-shed-petals-squatted-social-centres-in-amsterdam-36524ab6312e Flowers shed petals: Squatted social centres in Amsterdam]
- Duivenvoorden, E. (2000) Een voet tussen de deur {{ISBN|9789029513654}}
- Jenkins, David (2014) [https://www.dvhn.nl/archief/Het-Oude-RKZ-door-de-ogen-van-de-buurman-20822929.html Het Oude RKZ door de ogen van de buurman]
- Owens, L. (2016) Amsterdam Squatters on the Road: A Case Study in Territorial and Relational Urban Politics in (eds) Knud Andresen & Bart van der Steen A European Youth Revolt European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s {{ISBN|978-1-137-56570-9}}
- SPOK (1994) De heren zijn toch geen inbrekers? {{ISBN|9072768361}}
- Truijen, K. (2019) Architecture of Appropriation – On Squatting as Spatial Practice {{ISBN|9789083015200}}
External links
- [https://maps.squat.net/en/cities/amsterdam/squats Map of squatting in Amsterdam]
- [https://maps.squat.net/en/cities/rotterdam/squats Map of squatting in Rotterdam]
- [http://www.krakeninleiden.nl/ Squatting in Leiden]
- [https://wageningsebarricaden.wordpress.com/ Squatting in Wageningen]
- [http://www.iisg.nl/staatsarchief/ Staatsarchief] (in Dutch)
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