Beautiful South Limburg (NL) in the 1920s in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized]

Описание к видео Beautiful South Limburg (NL) in the 1920s in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized]

This film contains wonderful footage of the Dutch province of Limburg over a century ago between approximately 1919 and 1921.
Limburg is the most hilly southern part of The Netherlands with the Vaalserberg being the highest in the country at 322 meters above sea level.
Many tourist flock to Limburg for its great landscapes consiting of meandering small rivers, hillsides, meadows, cloisters, churches and abbeys, and other great vistas. The Margraten American WW-II cemetary is another well-visited location.
The film ends with footage of the 'mergel' (limestone) quaries at the 171 meters high Sint Pietersberg that until very recent still was being used to produced cement. In this film many parts of this scenery were still in tact whereas nowadays only about [30%*] remains. After years of protest the ENCI company stopped in 2018 with exploiting these natural resources.

For more information, see the time line below.

The original B&W footage has been motion-stabilized, speed-corrected, restored, enhanced and colorized with modern A.I. video software.

Source: Beeld En Geluid (online Dutch historic video archive).
Music: Howard Harper Barnes, Trevor Kowalski a.o.
Meer informatie: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Pi...

*) To be confirmed

Timeline (draft):
00:01 Town of Oud Elsloo near Meers
00:08 The road left leads down to the Juliana Kanaal
00:15 Beautiful Zuid Limburg in The Netherlands between 1919 and 1920
00:35 Railway tunnel from Moorveld to Geulle
00:52 Volderstraat and Beekstraat in Meerssen
01:06 Kluis op de Schaesberg in Schin op Geul,
01:12 Home of a hermit (still exists)
01:29 Castle Schaloen at Oud Valkenburg
02:22 Sint Gerlachus kerk at Houthem St. Gerlach, near Valkenburg aan de Geul
02:38 Waterfall in Houthem
03:02 Girl with donkey and cart
03:35 Farmer working his land
03:41 Gerendal, between Valkenburg and Schin op Geul
04:35 Townhall of Maastricht
04:50 Lime stone quarries
05:57 Basilica and Sint-Jans church on The Vrijthof in Maastricht
06:05 Maria Theresia bridge at Roermond
06:28 Castle in Horn
06:40 Sint Christoffel cathedral in Roermond (Munsterkerk in the background)
06:55 Entrance to castle Schöndeln (Roermond)
07:00 Basilica Sint Odiliënberg
07:10 Farmer with ox and cart
07:24 Farmyard with chickens
07:40 Church at Montfoort
07:46 Another farmer with ox and cart
07:59 Artificial mound, location?
08:05 The ox close-up
08:19 "Plats" square in the town of Echt with the St Landricuskerk (destroyed during WWII)
08:42 Castle Limbricht
08:52 Road in front of Castle Limbricht
08:57 Skyline of Sittard as seen from the Kollenberg
09:19 Ophovenermolen Sittard
10:04 Lage Kanaaldijk Maastricht
10:09 Limestone quarries at the St.Pietersberg
11:27 Gemeentegrot in Valkenburg near Grendelplein
12:08 Lime stone masons at work
13:29 The End

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