X-Nico

7 unusual facts about Enschede


2000 in the Netherlands

May 13 – Fireworks disaster in Enschede killing 23 and destroying an entire neighbourhood

Amsterdam Zuid railway station

These routes from Schiphol therefore bypass the congested lines serving Central Amsterdam, allowing faster connections between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and cities in the north and east of the country (Leeuwarden and Enschede, among others).

Enschede fireworks disaster

The Enschede fireworks disaster (known in the Netherlands as the Vuurwerkramp meaning "fireworks disaster") was a catastrophic fireworks explosion occurring at the SE Fireworks depot on 13 May 2000, in the eastern Dutch city of Enschede.

Gert-Jan Dröge

Gerardus Johannes Henri (Gert-Jan) Dröge (23 April 1943, in Enschede – 5 June 2007, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch television presenter, producer, actor, journalist and writer who mainly became known from his society programme Glamourland on AVRO television.

Hubo Netherlands

In July 2007 HDB-group fused with Serboucom from Enschede, the franchise organisation behind Multimate, Oxxo en Hout-drive.

Impossible Project

In October 2008, Impossible bought the production machinery from Polaroid and leased a building, called Building Noord, which was formerly part of the Polaroid plant in Enschede, Netherlands.

Polaroid Corporation

He - teamed with André Bosman, a former head of film production in the large Polaroid film factory at Enschede - designed a plan to redesign the SX-70/600 film system in collaboration with Ilford Photo, and convinced the Polaroid owners to participate.


De Grolsch Veste

It is located in Enschede, Netherlands, at the Business & Science Park, near the University of Twente.

Julian H. Scaff

His landscape art/design projects have included "Water, Trees, Path, Cranes" in Enschede, Netherlands, and "Dazzled Windscape," a proposal for making the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts more environmentally and culturally friendly.

Manuel Sánchez Torres

On 17 September 1978, aged 18, Torres made his league debut for Twente, in a home game against Sparta Rotterdam, scoring his first goal a few weeks later at HFC Haarlem, and ending his first season with three goals in 23 matches as the Enschede club finished in 11th position and reached the final of the Dutch Cup, lost to league champions AFC Ajax.

Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

One hour into the transmission of the contest, Dutch broadcaster NOS took the decision to take the programme off the air in order to bring viewers live news updates from Enschede, where some hours earlier a huge explosion in a fireworks factory had devastated a section of the city and resulted in multiple fatalities and serious injuries.

Norma Fisher

She is regularly invited on the jury of many leading international piano competitions including Young Musicians (Enschede, Holland), Gina Bachauer (USA), Horowitz (Kiev, Ukraine), Joanna Hodges (USA), Newport (Wales), Sydney (Australia) and Virginia Waring (USA).


see also