IJsbaan Nooitgedagt (Numansdorp)

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Friends at a Numansdorp bar founded Nooitgedagt in 1927, and a spelling change won it free skates

Public skating at IJsbaan Nooitgedagt (Numansdorp): the next 7 days

Currently out of season This is a natural-ice rink: the club's home page says it comes to life only when the temperature drops below zero. When there is ice it is open the hours on the contact page. Official schedule update

Address
Meestooflaan 3, Numansdorp, 3281 LR
Website
nooitgedagtnumansdorp.nl
Skaters and families on the snow-dusted natural ice at Numansdorp in February 2012, with a sledge in the foreground and trees and houses along the far side. — IJsbaan Nooitgedagt (Numansdorp)
Skaters and families on the snow-dusted natural ice at Numansdorp in February 2012, with a sledge in the foreground and trees and houses along the far side. Photo: IJsvereniging Nooitgedagt (club website photo page) · Source

An ice club founded over a pint in 1927

IJsvereniging Nooitgedagt has existed since 19 December 1927, when friends at the bar of a café in Middelsluis decided to found an ice club. The fee was set at one guilder per family per year. They had never thought an ice club would come to Middelsluis, so they called it Nooitgedacht Middelsluis; when the famous skate factory in IJlst turned out to be Nooitgedagt with a g, the club changed its spelling, and from then until the factory stopped making skates in 1965 a pair arrived from IJlst every year.

By 1928 the club had about 200 members. In 1935 the race track moved towards the village, lighting was laid and a koek-en-zopie tent sold aniseed milk, punch and oliebollen. The war years and the flood of 1953 left little room for skating, and the club only got back on its feet in the winter of 1955-56.

After the winter of 1962-63, when the inner harbour was busy and the lights burned in the evening, the members agreed that Nooitgedagt must have a rink of its own.

Before you head out.

Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.

Admission

Skating is for members, who can use the rink all winter once there is ice: a family card (children included) costs €5, a junior card from age 12 €2.50 and a senior card from age 16 €4.

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Amenities

The upkeep of the rink, its lighting and the koek-en-zopie stall are paid for by membership fees and run by volunteers.

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A source check records what the rink published on that date. Session-specific booking details take precedence.