Harderwijk

( Listen? / I ) Harderwijk is a town and comune of the province of Gelderland with 45,650 inhabitants. The municipality includes the village Hierden, which counts about 2500 inhabitants.

Location and economic

The city lies on the Veluwe, on the highway A28 Amersfoort - Zwolle and a railway line, about halfway between the two cities. In Harderwijk keep only local trains.

An aqueduct in the Veluwe crosses the road leading into the province of Flevoland ( Lelystad road ). Harderwijk has port facilities for tourists and for commercial shipping.

The main industries are tourism, industry (especially small businesses ), the military (several barracks ) and the service sector ( inter alia Hospital, District Court ( canton fair ), Tax Office). Agriculture and fisheries are important to 1932 still rather insignificant today. However, the city has been associated because of their fisheries business past to today strongly with the eel and smoked eel.

History

In the vicinity of Harderwijk was already in the Middle Ages is not insignificant farming village Selhorst. Harderwijk ( Herderewich ) was first mentioned in 1231, when Count Otto II of funds to the market town was named town.

It developed into a nationally significant fisheries and port city, joined the Hanseatic League in the 15th century, and had a relatively good connection overland to the Rhine ( Karweg, carts road to Arnhem).

In 1584 it was granted the right to mint the coins of the province of Gelderland. From 1647 to 1811, when Louis Napoleon disbanded, Harderwijk had a university. Some famous scholars, including Carl Linnaeus and Herman Boerhaave, a doctorate at that institution.

Harderwijk experienced a major economic decline in the 18th century. In 1814/15 there was a garrison town with the creation of Koloniaal Werfdepot. The Koloniaal Werfdepot was a training and decommissioning place for soldiers who were in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, serve. The adjacent forest and heath areas were later as a military training grounds for infantry as well as artillery in use. The military brought an improvement in Harderwijk economy. A new setback in 1932 the elimination of fishing, when the Zuiderzee was no longer with the North Sea in conjunction.

After the Second World War, the small industry and tourism were greatly encouraged. After 1980, Harderwijk was greatly enlarged with many new neighborhoods, and still every year, many homes built added.

Attractions

  • The Dolphinarium Dolphinarium Harderwijk
  • The coast of the Veluwemeer ( marina, beach)
  • The hinterland Veluwe with its forests and heathland
  • The city center with the late Gothic Church of Our Lady (15th century), the picturesque town gate Vischpoort ( Fischtor ), the small tower Linnaeustorentje (17th century) and several old houses from the 17th to 19th centuries
  • In the old farming village Hierden the old women wear now and still costumes.
  • The local museum Stadsmuseum Harderwijk in downtown
  • Several tourist events, including the annual fishing days, reminiscent of earlier times when Harderwijk was still an important fishing port.

Pictures

Mill: windkorenmolen de Hoop

Tower: het Lindaeustorentje

Ramparts, cannon and church tower

De Smeepoortenbrink

De Vischmarkt

Twinning

  • Czech Republic Znojmo, Czech Republic

Sons and daughters of the city

  • Roy Eefting (* 1989), cyclist
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