An impressive sight

The impressive D.F. Woudagemaal, with its plain and functional architecture, is constructed of brick. It comprises an engine room and a boiler house. The engine room measures over 60 x 15 metres and is topped by an elongated saddle roof with three lower-lying diagonal roofs on either side. Standing with your back towards the IJsselmeer, the boiler house is set at right angles to the left of the engine room; a 60-metre high chimney stack stands next to it. The boiler room measures over 33 x 15 metres and is topped by a saddle roof with a skylight. The pumping station was built at the end of a watercourse that flows into the IJsselmeer. There are jetties along the walls on the side of the present-day IJsselmeer with four outflow openings in between and four times two floodgates. These are reminiscent of the days prior to 1932, when the IJsselmeer was still the Zuyder Zee.