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79 unusual facts about Rotterdam


1967–68 Bundesliga

It needed Italian club AC Milan to prevent a title hat-trick for Bundesliga sides, knocking out title holders Bayern Munich 2–0 on aggregate before beating Hamburger SV, who were the fourth West German team in the final in four consecutive years, at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadion by the same score.

2001 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The 2001 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at Ahoy Rotterdam in the Netherlands and was part of the International Series Gold of the 2001 ATP Tour.

2007 Kingdom Games

After Rotterdam in 2001 Den Haag was the second Dutch city since 1995 to host the Games.

2009 Rafael Nadal tennis season

At the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Nadal lost in the final to second-seeded Andy Murray in three sets.

2011 World Port Tournament

The 2011 World Port Tournament was an international baseball competition held at the Neptunus Family Stadium in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from June 23 to July 3, 2011.

Alexander Mitenev

In September 2007, Alexander Mitenev enters CODARTS Conservatory in Rotterdam to study with maestros Victor Hugo Villena, Leo Vervelde, and Gustavo Beytelmann.

Alonso III Fonseca

Fonseca was an extremely erudite man, a Renaissance man and patron of numerous artists of the time, who was in touch with important thinkers such as Erasmus of Rotterdam.

André Gingras

Gingras' joining the company, Dance Works Rotterdam in 2010 led to a new phase in the artistic direction of that enterprise .

Aroldis Chapman

Chapman successfully defected from Cuba while in Rotterdam, Netherlands where the Cuban national team was participating in the World Port Tournament on July 1, 2009; Chapman walked out the front door of the team hotel and entered into an automobile driven by an acquaintance.

Arti Sacrum

Arti sacrum (Latin for: sacred art), a Dutch artists' society located in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Balanced-arm lamp

The biggest pivoting arm lamps in the world are in Rotterdam.

Bastien Salabanzi

He won the WSR05 skateboarding contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2005 and Mystic Skate Cup in Prague - the famous contest from the World Cup series held traditionally in Prague.

Cecil Aylmer Cameron

Under the codename EVELYN he was responsible for running spies in German-occupied France and Belgium from stations at Folkestone in England, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and Montreuil in France.

Communist Party of Holland – Central Committee

The group was able to gather strong support within the Rotterdam branch of the party, which was van Ravestyen's home turf.

Das Oath

After two rehearsals the band recorded their 7" eight song debut in Rotterdam. It was not until a year later when Das Oath started to play shows. With only one 7" released the band hit the road and played all over Europe during the fall of 2000.

Delano Hill

Hill is a defender who was born in Rotterdam and made his debut in professional football, being part of the FC Den Bosch squad in the 1995–96 season.

Dock landing ship

The Dutch and Spanish collaborated on the "Enforce" design which entered service as the Rotterdam-class amphibious transport dock and Galicia-class landing platform dock.

Economy of Hong Kong

By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput.

Flood control in the Netherlands

However, closing off this river mouth would be very detrimental for the Dutch economy, as the Port of Rotterdam - one of the biggest sea ports in the world - uses this river mouth.

These dams however blocked shipping and the economic activity caused by the necessity to transship goods caused villages grow up near the dam, some famous examples are Amsterdam (dam in the river Amstel) and Rotterdam (dam in the Rotte).

Francis Lathom

Francis Lathom was born on the 14 July 1774, either in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in Norwich and may have been the illegitimate son of an English peer.

Garry Mendes Rodrigues

Garry Mendes Rodrigues (born 27 November 1990 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Cape Verdean international footballer who plays for Elche CF in La Liga as a winger.

Georgia national rugby league team

Georgia played its first international match on April 29, 2005 against Netherlands in Rotterdam.

German auxiliary cruiser Hansa

In the winter of 1942/43, she was sent to the Wilton shipyard in Rotterdam, and later to Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, where she was converted into an auxiliary cruiser.

German auxiliary cruiser Stier

After this operation was canceled, the now renamed Stier was modified into an auxiliary cruiser in April 1941, first at the Wilton shipyard Rotterdam and later at Oderwerke, Stettin, and Kriegsmarinewerft, in Gotenhafen (Gdynia).

Haudaudine

She had arrived earlier from Yokohama, Japan, in ballast and was loaded for her homeward voyage with 3,042 tons of nickel ore from the Katavite mines bound for Rotterdam, Germany.

Ion Timofte

Timofte would be injured for most part of the season but he still managed to score a goal in the 1–1 drawn against Feyenoord in Rotterdam.

Jacques Mahu

The expedition left from Rotterdam on 27 June 1598, but suffered from misfortune from the start.

Jan Baptist Verrijt

Jan Baptist Verrijt (Rotterdam c.1600-1650) was a Dutch composer and organist of the St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.

John Hotaling

After a year of employment, Hotaling traveled to Europe; visiting Antwerp, Rotterdam, and other European cities, possibly while doing genealogy research.

John-Laffnie de Jager

The duo had an even year 2000 nevertheless winning back-to-back in February, in Rotterdam and London, in Munich in May, and reaching the semi-finals of Wimbledon.

Karl-Lothar Schulz

During the campaign in the West, Schulz and his men dropped into Holland to seize the airport at Waalhaven near Rotterdam, in order to allow the rapid landing of more German air-landing troops.

Kermit Erasmus

His surname Erasmus is the same name of Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch humanist who up and until this day is highly respected in Rotterdam, the city of his new club Feyenoord.

Lightvessel No. 11

She was later sold to Gus van der Loodt in 1995, who towed her to Rotterdam to convert her to a floating restaurant, opening as Breeveertien in 1999.

She has been moored in the Wijnhaven, Rotterdam ever since, except for a brief period in April/May 2009 where she underwent a refit and restoration under new owners.

Lola Cueto

The work received recognition at exhibitions in Paris, Barcelona and Rotterdam .

Longwood Gardens

The gardens attracted nearly 900,000 visitors during 2009 and plans for the growth and expansion of Longwood Gardens for the next four decades began in 2010 with the hiring of West 8, a Dutch landscape architecture and urban planning firm with headquarters in Rotterdam and an office in New York City.

Marpessa

Marpessa had been on its maiden voyage from Europort, Rotterdam, when an explosion ripped through the hull and it foundered 50 miles off the west coast of Africa.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Monaco aan de Maas

Monaco aan de Maas (Monaco at the Maas) is a Formula One demonstration and a parade of international racecars and racing drivers, held on the streets of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

MV C.O. Stillman

She underwent repairs at Rotterdam and then on 24 March 1937 her new owner transferred her registration from Britain to the Panamanian flag of convenience.

Native Esperanto speakers

Esperanto is not the primary language of any geographic region, outside of temporary gatherings (such as conventions like the World Congress of Esperanto) and isolated offices (such as the World Esperanto Association's central office in Rotterdam).

Netherlands Marine Corps

The Seabased Support Group (SSG) fields 98 men and coordinates maritime operational logistic support for Marine units embarked on one the Rotterdam-class amphibious transport docks.

Netherlands Missionary Society

Netherlands Missionary Society (Dutch: Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap) was a Dutch Protestant missionary society founded in 1797 in Rotterdam that was involved in sending workers to countries such as Indonesia during the Dutch occupation and China during the Qing Dynasty.

Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals

His father Hendrik van Gilse van der Pals, from a merchant family of Rotterdam, was a rubbermanufacturer and honorary consul for the Netherlands in St Petersburg until he (temporarily) settled on his estates in Finland because of the Russian revolution.

No. 1 Deansgate

The apartments are above a retail level, 16 metres high, and are supported by raking steel tubular columns in a manner reminiscent of Rotterdam's De Brug building.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Polymeal

The Polymeal is a diet-based approach to combatting heart disease, proposed in December 2004 by Oscar Franco, a Colombian public health scientist at the University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Redemptioner

The Rotterdam ships always stopped first in the U.K. (often at Cowes) to clear British customs, before proceeding to the Colonies.

To fill empty holds, poor Europeans were recruited onto ships in Rotterdam by “Neulaender” (singular = Neulander) or “new worlders” who had worked out their time as indentured servants in the colonies.

Regillio Nooitmeer

Regillio "Regi" Nooitmeer (born 16 July 1983 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch footballer of Haitian descent who plays for Finnish Veikkausliiga side FC Haka as a defender.

Reykjavík-Rotterdam

The original film's lead actor, Baltasar Kormákur—a successful director in his home country of Iceland—took on the role of director.

Roger Chapelet

He would then make a series of paintings in various ports: Le Havre, Antwerp, and Rotterdam.

Roparun

The Roparun (Rotterdam Paris run) is a non-stop relay run between Rotterdam and Paris.

Rotterdam Delftsche Poort railway station

Rotterdam Delftsche Poort was a railway station of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij in Rotterdam, The Netherlands located on the Oude Lijn from Amsterdam Willemspoort station to Rotterdam.

The first station Delftsche Poort opened in 1847 completing the railway line between Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

Rotterdam Lombardijen railway station

Several Rotterdam tram and bus lines call at the Rotterdam Lombardijen station.

Rotterdam Noord railway station

It sits at the border between the two Rotterdam municipalities Noord and Hillegersberg-Schiebroek.

Russell Metty

Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers, "Russell Metty page", Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007.

Saïd Boutahar

Boutahar is a midfielder who was born in Rotterdam and made his debut in professional football, being part of the Feyenoord Rotterdam squad in the 2001–02 season.

Sas van Bosch baronets

It was created on 22 October 1680 for Gelebrand Sas van Bosch, secretary to the Admiralty at Rotterdam.

Schalmont High School

Schalmont High School is a public high school located in the Town of Rotterdam, New York State.

Severo Antonelli

Antonelli's photographs received top awards at major shows in Paris, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Brussels, Rome, and Tokyo.

Silent lotus

From the Mediterranean he traveled overland through Europe and settled in the city of Rotterdam.

SV Beuel 06

They were known briefly as the Rapiditas or Rapidas after a Rotterdam side that was in the city to play a match against Bonn FV.

Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

Before going to Rotterdam Frida had hopes built to score as high as her elder sister but only managed to get 8th place with 83 points.

Swedish Pro Tennis Championships

The Swedish Pro Tennis Championships were created in Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of the 1972 WCT circuit, as one of the four non-American events of the tour, with the Canada International of Essen, Germany, and the Rotterdam Indoors of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

TAQA

In addition, in 2006 TAQA acquired BP Nederland Energie B.V. Through this acquisition, TAQA get onshore and off-shore production assets, including the Piek Gas Installatie facility in Alkmaar, the project of the largest offshore LNG Regas facilities utilizing the depleted field P15/P18 just off the port of Rotterdam, and partnership in the Bergermeer gas storage project.

Terra Nova FPSO

In June 2006, production on the Terra Nova was halted as the platform was sent to Rotterdam for a refit.

The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall

The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey of a man named Hans Pfaall.

Thomas Cogan

In 1759 he was in the Netherlands, where he found that the Rev. Benjamin Sowden, the English minister of the presbyterian church at Rotterdam, supported by the English and Dutch governments with two pastors, required a substitute; Cogan applied for and obtained the place.

Transport in Leeds

Leeds has good connections by road, rail and coach to Hull, only an hour away, from where it is possible to travel to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge by ferry services run by P&O Ferries.

Urban Connection

Urban Connection have been touring under the auspices of the Moldejazz, where they visited several of the major festivals in Europe, like the Montreaux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, and the Istanbul Jazz Festival amongst others, as well as being Norway's contribution EBU Festival in the Czech and Norwegian jazz forums envoys to the jazz festival in the Faroe Islands.

V2 Institute for the Unstable Media

In 1994, V2 moved to its current location in the center of Rotterdam, and since then concentrated on art in electronic networks and communications media, like the World Wide Web.

V2 , Institute for the Unstable Media, or simply V2 , is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Vlaardingse Vaart Bridge

Vlaardingen is a city in the Netherlands in the western outskirts of Rotterdam, on the north bank of the Maas River, and the Vlaardingse Vaart Bridge is located in the outskirts of Vlaardingen.

Worried About You

Like some songs for Black and Blue, "Worried About You" was recorded in Rotterdam, Netherlands, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.

WSA World Tour 2011

The most important tournament in the series is the World Open held in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Zapfendorf

On the Main itself, log drivers floated wood from the Frankenwald (forest) down to the Rhine and even as far as Rotterdam.


2009 World Port Tournament

The 2009 World Port Tournament is an international baseball competition held at the DOOR Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from July 2–12, 2009.

Ans Timmermans

Anna Petronella "Ans" Timmermans (10 April 1919, Rotterdam – 21 August 1958, Parkdale, Victoria, Australia) was a Dutch swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

C-AKv coupler

Beginning in late 2009, eighteen DBAG Class 189 electric locomotives owned by DB Schenker were converted to C-AKv couplers, in order to handle 6,000 tonne iron ore trains from Rotterdam to the steel works at Dillingen in the Saarland, replacing the previous German class 151 double units and Dutch class 6400 triple units commonly used on these workings previously.

Christophe Rochus

He reached the semi-finals of the Hamburg Masters in 2005 and was runner-up in two ATP tournaments, Valencia and Rotterdam.

De Droomfabriek

De Droomfabriek (The Dream Factory) is a 2007 Dutch documentary produced and directed by Netty van Hoorn about the students at the Havo voor Muziek en Dans (High School for Music and Dance) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Den Haan Rotterdam B.V.

The part of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute that approved and certified the nautical lights, compasses and instruments in Rotterdam closed in 1988.

Economy of Belgium

The postwar boom years, enhanced by the establishment of the European Union and NATO headquarters in Brussels, contributed to the rapid expansion of light industry throughout most of Flanders, particularly along a corridor stretching between Brussels and Antwerp, which is the second largest port in Europe after Rotterdam.

Erasmusbrug

In 2005, the bridge served as the backdrop for a performance by DJ Tiësto titled "Tiësto @ The Bridge, Rotterdam".

Erim

Erasmus Research Institute of Management, the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management and the Erasmus School of Economics, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Giovanni van Bronckhorst

Van Bronckhorst was born in Rotterdam to Victor van Bronckhorst, an Indonesian-Dutch and Fransien Sapulette, a Moluccan mother.

Goats Head Soup

The song 'Silver Train' actually was a leftover from 1970s recordings at Olympic Sound Studios, and 'Hide Your Love' was recorded during rehearsals at De Doelen in Rotterdam.

Hamburg Airlines

Hamburg Airlines was founded in April 1988 and commenced operations with a Dornier Do 228 with services between its home base of Hamburg and Rotterdam and Westerland.

Hansweert

For a long time, Hansweert was an important stop on the shortest shipping route between the busy ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, but all that changed when the Scheldt–Rhine Canal opened up and became the quicker route.

Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders

Major projects of the firm in the period up to the mid-1920s included the district of Heijplaat in the harbour of Rotterdam (1912-1921) — originally built as a garden city (tuindorp) to house the employees of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij shipping company — and the Amsterdam secondary school Amsterdams Lyceum (1917-1922).

Irvine Arditti

He has appeared with many distinguished orchestras and ensembles which include the Bayerische Rundfunk, BBC Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Paris, Het Residentie den Hague, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, London Sinfonietta, Nieuw Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, Oslo Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble.

Johannes van der Kemp

The second son of Cornelius van der Kemp, Rotterdam's leading reformed clergyman, and Anna Maria van Teylingen, he attended the Latin schools of Rotterdam and Dordrecht.

Johfra Bosschart

Johannes Franciscus Gijsbertus van den Berg (15 December 1919 in Rotterdam - 6 November 1998 in Fleurac) or just Johfra Bosschart was a Dutch modern artist.

Joost van Vollenhoven

Joost van Vollenhoven (21 July 1877, Rotterdam – 20 July 1918, Parcy-et-Tigny, Aisne) was a Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator.

Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond

The sport, famously dismissed as "unmanly and un-German" and "insufficiently violent" by Adolf Hitler himself, endured thanks in no small part to the dogged enthusiasm of local players, who shrugged off the requisitioning of grounds and restrictions on weekend travel – not to mention the presence of thousands of heavily armed Nazis and the bombing of the main sports dealers in Rotterdam – to organise as many as 300 matches a year.

Liberal State Party

The party performed particularly well in the major trading cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the rich municipalities around Hilversum and the Hague and in northern rural provinces, like Groningen and Drenthe.

Navarth

We first encounter him on Earth, old and forgotten, living in reduced circumstances on a canal-boat in the ancient (but fictitious) city of Rollingshaven: apparently a Vanceian conflation of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg.

Neurotic Deathfest

Formerly known as the Rotterdam Deathfest, it was created by Neurotic Records and has since been relocated to Tilburg.

Oscar van Dillen

After studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium), he studied classical composition with, among others, Dick Raaymakers and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990/1991 and with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002.

Petr Zelenka

1997 – Buttoners (Knoflíkáři, screenplay and direction), winner of a Tiger award at the Rotterdam IFF

Polsteam

80-90% per that shipping involved tramping services and although the ship operator had three lines since 1951 namely: Szczecin - Stockholm, Szczecin - London - Rouen and Szczecin - Hamburg - Rotterdam - Antwerp.

Prinsenbeek

The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (Rotterdam - Antwerp) and the TGV-line Amsterdam - Paris.

Răzvan Ion

He has held conferences and lectures at different art institutions like Witte de With, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Vienna; Art in General, New York; rum46, Aarhus; Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; la Casa Encendida, Madrid; New Langton, San Francisco; CCA, Tbilisi; Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj; University of Art, Cluj; etc.

Roparun

In 2008 253 teams made it to the finish at the Rotterdam Coolsingel.

Stadsdriehoek

The name Stadsdriehoek ("City Triangle") refers to the historical triangular form of the city of Rotterdam, which was bordered by the Coolsingel and the Schiedamsevest to the west, the Goudsevest to the northeast, and by the Nieuwe Maas to the south.

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi

His concert performances have taken him around the world with the most important orchestras (ORTF, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Rotterdam, London, Chicago, Indianapolis, Toronto and Vancouver philharmonic orchestras, etc.) and has participated in numerous festivals like the Algoma Fall, Banff, Guelph Spring, Ontario Place, Stratford and Ravinia.