Schipluiden is older than Delft. The name 'Schipleda' already appears in a charter of Count Dirk V from 1083 — Delft would only get city rights in 1246. The village arose around a drawbridge over the Gaag, the canal connecting the Vlaardingervaart with Delft. The Gaag aqueduct that now stands there replaces that old bridge, but the village structure still lies around the same water.
Where there's a Gaag, there's a mill, and in Schipluiden that's De Korpershoek. A grain mill stood on this same spot as early as 1541 — the name comes from the carp that spawned there at the time. The mill has been destroyed and rebuilt many times: the current Korpershoek was moved here from Leimuiden in 1950 after its predecessor had burned in 1945. The photo above shows the mill in its current state, on the corner of Vlaardingervaart and Gaag.
For centuries Schipluiden was not really a village but a collection of manors — small communities with their own administration, jurisdiction and culture, only united into one municipality in the nineteenth century. In 2004 a new merger followed, this time with Maasland, into the present-day Midden-Delfland. The old polder structure between Delft, Maassluis and Naaldwijk has thus become one administrative unit, but the villages themselves remain idiosyncratic and small.
Small does not mean less laundry. We run set pickup days through Schipluiden, along the Gaag and through the newer neighbourhoods. Your bag goes along in the morning, and in the evening everything is back clean and ironed at your door — same driver, same time, every week. No long drives, no dry-cleaner trip in Delft or Maassluis — just pickup and delivery, the way you want it.
How Wastas works in Schipluiden
On the set pickup day our driver is at your door. Clean laundry comes back by appointment — folded or on hangers, however you like it.
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