Genemuiden

Genemuiden is a city placed inside the north western a part of the Province of Overijssel. It acquired metropolis rights in 1275 which is likewise the first time Genemuiden gets referred to in records. It stayed independent up till 2001 when, despite fierce competition of its inhabitants, it became pressured to merge with the smaller, neighboring villages of Zwartsluis and Hasselt to shape the municipality of Zwartewaterland. The town itself would not have any buildings over one hundred fifty years vintage as two fires destroyed the city completely in 1866. These fires couldn't be managed because of the notable wide variety of hay stacks in a single avenue, 'de Achterweg' or 'Nachtweg'. This street still holds a non smoking signal, that is precise for a road in Europe.

Since the 18th century, the humans from Genemuiden had been generating floor mats made from the bulrush that grows at the shorelines of the Zuiderzee. When the pleasant of the bulrush deteriorated inside the twentieth century, because of the alternate from salt water to fresh water see Zuiderzee, the enterprise switched over to the use of coir imported from India to produce mats and carpets. In the sixties the first tufting machines have been imported and presently Genemuiden is certainly one of Europe's major manufacturing centres of tufted carpet and synthetic grass.