Paardenmarkt - Voorschoten, The Netherlands. - Agricultural Fairgrounds on Waymarking.com

About:
The Voorschotense horse market is originally an annual fair, a so-called free market that is more than 800 years old. The official market rights were granted in 1282 by the Dutch Count Floris V.
In the late Middle Ages, the Voorschoten annual fair was already an important livestock market for many types of livestock and poultry, but also a market where products such as salt and medicinal herbs were traded. The market owed its importance partly to the geographical location of Voorschoten on the then tidal river Rhine. There was a wading place in the river, the name Ter Wadding still refers to this. Trade developed naturally among those waiting, because people could only cross at low tide.

The Voorschoten market is already mentioned in a chronicle of the abbey of Egmond in the context of the succession struggle between Countess Ada of Holland and Zeeland (1188-1223) and her uncle Willem, in what is called the Loon War. According to the medieval historian and secretary of Count Floris V, Melis Stoke, the Voorschoten annual fair during that war supplied products and horses to the army of Louis II, Count van Loon

Since 1812, the market has been held on July 28. It is no coincidence that a horse market is held at the end of the hay month of July. The hay harvest was in and so a second horse was no longer necessary. This horse could be sold to arable farmers who still had to harvest in the autumn. Traveling gypsies and other fairgoers also liked to buy surplus horses. Later in the 19th century, many of these horses were also sold as mining horses.

In 2017, the organizer abandoned the 28th of July and decided to hold the horse market on the Saturday of the last weekend in July. The horse market has therefore become part of the Voorschotense Horse Days.
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When's the Fair?: Last weekend of july Who's at the Fair?: Horse Farmers from across the region state. Community members who enjoy the trading atmosphere and a wide range of activities from a broader community. Website of the fair: [Web Link]

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