And the reason that there are high visitors in Utrecht today is all because of a dike breach on January 1, 1624, says dike warden Jeroen Haan of De Stichtse Rijnlanden Water Board. The Lekdijk broke through before, but this time the water reached all the way to Amsterdam. “The dike had to be repaired, and that required money,” Haan explains.
New Yorkers in Utrecht to collect interest on four-hundred-year-old loan
