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2 unusual facts about Grote Markt, Haarlem


Hendrik Lorentz

Unique 1928 film footage of the funeral procession with a lead carriage followed by ten mourners, followed by a carriage with the coffin, followed in turn by at least four more carriages, passing by a crowd at the Grote Markt, Haarlem from the Zijlstraat to the Smedesstraat, and then back again through the Grote Houtstraat towards the Barteljorisstraat, on the way to the "Algemene Begraafplaats" at the Kleverlaan (northern Haarlem cemetery) has been digitized on Youtube.

Marching and Cycling Band HHK

The first performance of this nowadays well known band took place at the Grote Markt (central market square) during the March of Musicians of 1973.


2002 Haarlem Baseball Week

The 2002 Haarlem Baseball Week was an international baseball competition held at the Pim Mulier Stadium in Haarlem, the Netherlands from July 19–28, 2002.

Adelbrecht

Adelbrecht was a speaking, interactive robot in the form of a ball, designed by Martin Spanjaard (born 1952 in Haarlem, Netherlands).

Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway

It contains the oldest railway line in the Netherlands, and follows the old trekschuit canal route from Leiden via Haarlem to Amsterdam-Sloterdijk.

Anglo-Hollandia

Hollandia was based in the city of Haarlem and was the only Dutch producer of significant scale during the era.

The company produced films featuring Anglo-Dutch casts with the Haarlem studios or the Dutch countryside standing in for British settings.

Barteljorisstraat

It runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side of the Grote Markt linking Heemstede to Schoten, and is one of the oldest streets in Haarlem.

Bernard van Orley

The Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem, Holland, also has a set of stained-glass windows designed by van Orley, depicting the donor Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht and his patron saint Martin.

Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral

In Autumn 2006, the choir undertook a choral exchange project with the Choir of St Bavo's in Haarlem (The Netherlands).

Christian Ulrich

In 1879 Christian Ulrich designed a new facade and lobby for the Teyler's Museum in Haarlem (The Netherlands).

Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel

On his return to Holland he founded a college for young men at Hageveld, near Haarlem.

Damstraat, Haarlem

The Damstraat is a street in Haarlem, connecting the Spaarne river to the "Lange Veerstraat", "Klokhuisplein" and the "Oude Groenmarkt" behind the St. Bavochurch.

The new Haarlem court of Justice is also in this street, located in a modern building called the Appelaar, which is constructed on the spot where the Joh. Enschedé printing company resided for three centuries.

Eva Bendien

However her family was forced to go underground and Eva spent time at diverse underground addresses in Amsterdam, Bergen, Haarlem, Sneek, Boekelo, and Bornebroek, with the last few months spent in the "Verscholen dorp" a colony of earthen huts housing 86 people in the woods between Nunspeet and Vierhouten.

Frans Hals

However, as biographer Seymour Slive has pointed out, the Frans Hals in question was not the artist, but another Haarlem resident of the same name.

Grote Houtstraat

The street runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side of the Grote Markt linking Heemstede to Schoten, and is one of the oldest streets in Haarlem.

Gudula

251, Haarlem Gradual of 1494, depiction of Saint Gudula bearing a lantern which the demon endeavors to extinguish

Haarlem railway station

The scenes in the 2004 film Ocean's Twelve that are meant to portray Amsterdam Centraal station were actually shot on platform 3a at Haarlem station.

Haarlem schutterij

De Stadsdoelen,publication by the Vereniging Haarlem in 1974 on the opening of the new wing of the central library, ediited by C. van der Haar and with a preface by J.J. Temminck, city archivist

Helena Sá e Costa

She was among the virtuoso performers at famous festivals, such as at Strasbourg, Wiesbaden, Haarlem, Prades, Gulbenkian, Majorca, Costa del Sol, Sintra, Espinho, Costa Verde, etc.

History of rail transport in the Netherlands

On September 20 a train pulled by the locomotives De Arend (and De Snelheid as a backup) left Amsterdam, arriving in a (then) recordbreaking 30 minutes later in Haarlem.

Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij

This company grew so fast, that in 1891, the HSM, aided by the social activist Daniel de Clercq, began the Haarlem society called De Ambachtsschool to unify various city efforts to start a vocational school in Haarlem, in order to satisfy their need for workers in the booming train business.

Aside from this line, the HSM constructed a number of other rail- and tramways in the Netherlands, mainly in the relatively densely populated Holland, such as the Staatslijn K (1860–1865), a line northwards from Haarlem to Uitgeest in 1867, and the line to Zandvoort (1881).

The Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij ˈhɔlɑntsə ˈɛizərə(n) ˈspʊːrʋɛxmaːtsxɑˌpɛi or HSM (Hollands Iron Railway-Company) was the first railway company in the Netherlands founded on 8 August 1837 as a private company, starting operation in 1839 with a line between Amsterdam and Haarlem.

Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique

Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique is a famous popular scientific treatise and self-help book published in London in 1926 by Dutch gynecologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, retired director of the Gynecological Clinic in Haarlem, and "one of the major writers on human sexuality during the early twentieth century" (Frayser & Whitby, p. 300).

IJsbrand

The name is at least as old as the 12th century, where it was a distinguishing name for lords of Haarlem, but it is today in common use in the Netherlands.

Jan Mostaert

In 1500 Mostaert was commissioned to paint the shutters for a receptacle housing the relics of Saint Bavo in the Groote Kerk, Haarlem.

Johan Enschedé Hof

It was designed and built in 2007 by Joost Swarte and Henk Döll who also collaborated on the Haarlem theater, the Toneelschuur, located around the corner.

Johannes Enschedé

Johannes Enschedé III (1785–1866), Haarlem newspaper editor and printer

Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans

Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans (Wilp, 31 October 1812 - Haarlem, 16 February 1875) was a Dutch organist, composer and music theorist.

In 1840 he became organist at the Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam, and between 1858-1878 he was cityorganist at the Grote Kerk in Haarlem.

John Bagford

Originally a shoemaker by trade, he was active on the book-trading market from 1680 in and around Holborn, travelling to Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam on this business and aiding such collectors as John Moore, Robert and Edward Harley, Sir Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys and John Woodward.

Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet

Lescrauwaet resigned as auxiliary bishop of Haarlem on 22 March 1995.

Laak, The Hague

The Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway was constructed in this polder, together with the railway station Hollands Spoor.

Matthias Scheits

According to Houbraken he was in Hamburg while Johannes Voorhout was there and though he had initially trained in Haarlem under Philips Wouwerman, he later painted farm & village scenes in the manner of David Teniers.

Nicolaes Boddingius

In the Brouwerskapel of the "Grote Kerk", also named St. Bavochurch, in Haarlem, hangs a plaque with inscriptions of names of ministers who served the church since the Reformation.

Pieter van Kouwenhoorn

Pieter van Kouwenhoorn aka Pieter Kouwenhoorn (1599 Haarlem - c21 May 1654 Leiden) (fl.1620s-1630s) was a Dutch botanical illustrator.

Kouwenhoorn was a glass painter working in Haarlem and Leiden in the Netherlands, and was one of the teachers of the painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675) and Hendrick Jansz.

Richard Culmer

This would appear to be based on a record in the International Genealogical Index, listing a Richard Culmer, 1612-1669, who married a "Mrs Bechor" of Haarlem, born 1638.

Richard Nicolls

He made 74th Street, beginning at the East River, the southern border patent line (which was called the "Harlem Line") of the village of Nieuw Haarlem (later, the village of Harlem); the British also renamed the village "Lancaster".

Samuel Sotheby

After a visit to Holland in 1824 to examine specimens at Haarlem for his friend William Young Ottley, his attention was first specially directed to block books.

Schalkwijk

Schalkwijk, Haarlem, a neighbourhood in the city of Haarlem, the Netherlands

Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands

However, the reason to settle in Amsterdam was not merely voluntary; many crypto-Jews, or Marranos, had been refused admission in trading centers like Middelburg and Haarlem, and because of that ended up in Amsterdam.

Simon Gaon

In 1964, he studied in Academia 63 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and furthered his European education with the Art Students League Merit Scholarship (1965) and the Edward G. McDowell traveling scholarship

Teylers Hofje

This hofje was built by the popular contemporary architect Leendert Viervant, who designed several other neo-classical objects in the 1780s in Haarlem.

Thomas Trotter

Trotter has also been invited to perform on major historic instruments such as those at St. Ouen in Rouen, St. Bavo’s in Haarlem (Netherlands), Weingarten Abbey in Germany and Woolsey Hall at Yale University and he appears at the festivals of Salzburg, Berlin, Vienna, Edinburgh and London’s BBC Proms.

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.


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