Essen card

The large open field complexes of the Pleistocene sandy soils, which arose from the Middle Ages and were used for a long time partly jointly, partly individually by the inhabitants of adjacent farms, were called ‘essen’ in a large part of the Dutch sandy soils (other names are ‘enken’, ‘engen’ and ‘akkers’). Essen are characteristic and identity-determining elements in the historical cultural landscape.
The ‘ash map’ gives an overview of the ash present in the Netherlands, NOT of the spread of sod beds.