See-through panel Sluitgat

See-through panels are corten steel frames with a transparent plate. On that plate, a drawing visualises an object/activity that is not (or no longer) visible in the landscape. Through the correct perspective of the drawing and the correct positioning of the frame, the drawing is as it were projected into the current landscape. In this way, a special event or a former structure that stood at a specific location can come back to life for a while. Via the vista panels, we make the special history and unique story of Northeast Polder more visible.

The Doorkijkpaneel Sluitgat stands at the marker of the closing of the dike near present-day Espel. The panel shows the mayors of Lemmer and Urk shaking hands on a gangplank laid across the closure hole on the dike between the two places, after the last heap of soil was dumped into the IJsselmeer there.

You can also see crowds watching and cheering from the dike and from a ship in the water a little further away. This part of the outline of the new polder is thus laid. When the dike between Urk and Vollenhove is also completed over a year later, the reclamation of the new polder can begin.

Today, if you look through this see-through panel and stand in exactly the right spot, you can see the ship with the cheering crowd in the water and the mayors and the other public standing on today's dike. At the same time, you can see what the dike looks like today, complete with modern wind turbines and all. The vista panel stands high and dry on the dike, 7 metres 30 above sea level.