Rossum (City)

Overview
Rossum is a city on the North-West side of the map. Its only station is Rossum, though it has a general goods and refrigerated goods stop at the harbour.

Harbour
Rossum's harbour allows ships to dock and deliver various goods and food. These products then get transported by goods trains through-out the region.

Railway services
The N.S. exploits a passenger service and some goods services at Rossum.

Vier Noorder Koggen
The 'Four Northern Cogs' is a steam pumping station on Rossum's West side. Besides being a common sight for trains passing between Zand op 't Zee and Rossum, its function is to keep the water levels in Rossum's polder low enough to prevent flooding Rossum.

Notable landmarks

 * Harbour
 * Industries
 * Old City wall
 * Rossum Tower (Onze Lieve Vrouwetoren, Amersfoort)
 * Rossum (station)

Additional landmarks

 * Church
 * Courtyard (Hof de Vriendschap, Dordrecht)
 * Lighthouse
 * Tilted houses

Trivia

 * The Hof de Vriendschap courtyard is also used in Hazeldrecht.

General
Rossum is an old city which started out as a town next to a lake. It stands in a polder which is kept dry by the Vier Noorder Koggen steam pumping station. This, however, has made the ground below Rossum a typically Dutch, swampy and muddy soil. As this soil isn't very strong, several facades are leaning forward as the houses are slowly sinking into the ground.

History
Rossum started out as a lake-side town and earned its city rights in the medieval era. This allowed them to protect themselves with a wall. As the city developed over many years, large parts of the wall had to be torn down so streets could be extended. Of what remained, some parts didn't survive WWII.

To combat the muddy soil below Rossum, especially after long rainstorms, a steam pumping station was build in 1869 to keep Rossum's surrounding.

As the city keeps on growing, partially due to its industry, more houses were required. To keep these save from the soil troubles, they were build on the other side of a railway dyke as ground stable enough to carry railway traffic is stable enough to carry houses.

Trivia

 * Rossum is one of three locations with a light house.
 * The others being Zand op 't Zee and Dokmuiden