{"id":199809,"date":"1995-07-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1995-07-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/?p=199809"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:44:23","slug":"blowing-up-landbouw-silo-aalten-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/blowing-up-landbouw-silo-aalten-1995\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing up the Landbouw silo (1995)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In 1995, a large crowd gathered around the former Landbouw site in Aalten. The 35-metre concrete silo was due to disappear. Dynamite was used in an attempt to bring the structure down, but the silo did not give way immediately.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A landmark of the Landbouw<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The silo formed part of the complex of the Co-operative Agricultural Association, founded in Aalten in 1898. Around 1964, the old manager\u2019s house on Landbouwstraat was demolished to make way for the concrete silo. At about 35 metres high, it became a prominent feature of the area around the railway station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agricultural co-operative changed during the twentieth century through mergers and increasing scale. Eventually the Aalten complex lost its original function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dynamite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demolition phase began in 1995. Because houses stood nearby, the explosive charge had to be calculated carefully. The event attracted considerable attention: it was not every day that such a large concrete structure was brought down with explosives in Aalten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first attempt did not go entirely to plan. Part of the complex remained standing and had to be demolished further with machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The end of an era<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the disappearance of the silo, one of the last major landmarks of the Landbouw vanished from Aalten\u2019s streetscape. The Stationsplein site of Christelijk College Schaersvoorde was later built on the grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opblazen van het silocomplex in Aalten.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IRqAhDaABMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longer history of the organisation can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/organisation\/co-operative-agricultural-association\/\">Co-operative Agricultural Association<\/a> profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Old Aalten, Co-operative Agricultural Association<\/li>\n<li>Old Aalten, Landbouwstraat 1<\/li>\n<li>Film footage of the demolition of the Landbouw silo, 1995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, the 35-metre concrete silo of the Landbouw in Aalten was blown up with dynamite. The first blast, however, did not bring the structure down completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199812,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199809\/revisions\/199812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}