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Barneveld (municipality)
Barneveld () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Gelderland in the center of the Netherlands. It is known for its poultry farming, poultry industry and large Protestant community. The municipality had a population of in , out of which 33,800 (2018) lived in the Barneveld (town), town itself. Barneveld is estimated to be over 800 years old. This estimation is based on a text from 1174 in which a Wolfram van Barneveld is named. Population centres *Barneveld (town) *De Glind *Garderen *Kootwijk *Kootwijkerbroek *Stroe, Gelderland, Stroe *Terschuur *Voorthuizen *Zwartebroek Notable people * Jan van Schaffelaar (ca.1445–1482) a cavalry officer in the duchy of Guelders * Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt (ca.1520–ca.1594) a weaver, a Christian mystic and author * Jan Everts Bout (1601/1602 – 1671) an early Dutch settler in the New Netherland * Jacobus Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (1851–1922) a Dutch astronomer * Eduard Daniël van Oort (1876–1933 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Municipalities Of The Netherlands
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, sing. ) and three Caribbean Netherlands, special municipalities ( ) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public body (Netherlands), public bodies (), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces of the Netherlands, provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the Cabinet of the Netherlands, central government and they are ruled by a municipal council (Netherlands), municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal merger (politics), mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Glind
De Glind is a village near Barneveld in the middle of Netherlands, in the province Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Nethe .... History It was first mentioned in 1321 as Ghelinde, and means "fenced off terrain". The '' havezate'' Glinthorst was mentioned for the first time in 1325. It was demolished around 1780. In 1840, it was home to 498 people. In 1916, a church was built in De Glind. In 1911, Foundation De Glindhorst was established by and a village for disadvantaged youth was built. Farmers could rent a piece of land, but were obliged to take care of children. The youth village still exists, and is nowadays operated by the Rudolph Foundation. Gallery File:De Glind Schoonderbekerweg 11.jpg, House in De Glind File:De Glind-helweg-207845.jpg, Cows with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Kapteyn
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomy, astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferential directions: the two star streams. This discovery was later reinterpreted as evidence for Galaxy rotation curve, galactic rotation. Kapteyn also suggested that these stellar velocities could be used to find the amount of non-luminous matter in the galaxy, which his student, Jan Oort, measured in 1932, referring to it as "invisible matter". Biography Kapteyn was born in Barneveld (town), Barneveld to Gerrit J. and Elisabeth C. (née Koomans) Kapteyn, and went to the Utrecht University, University of Utrecht to study mathematics and physics in 1868. In 1875, after having finished his thesis, he worked for three years at the Leiden Observatory, before becoming the first Professor of Astronomy and Theoretical Mechanics at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Netherland
New Netherland () was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were established in what became the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The colony was originally conceived by the Dutch West India Company (GWC) in 1621 to capitalize on the North American fur trade. Settlement initially stalled because of policy mismanagement by the GWC and conflicts with Native Americans. The settlement of New Sweden by the Swedish South Company encroached on its southern flank, while its eastern border was redrawn to accommodate the English colonies of an expanding New England Confederation. The colony experienced dramatic growth during the 1650s and became a major center for trade across the North Atlantic. The Dutch conquered New Sweden in 1655 but, during the Second Anglo-Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Everts Bout
Jan Evertsz Bout (March 1601 or 1602, Barneveld, Gelderland – 1671 Gowanus), was an early and prominent Dutch settler in the 17th century colonial province of New Netherland. In 1634 one of the first ''" bouweries"'', or homesteads, in the colony of New Netherland was built at Communipaw on the west bank of the North River as part of Pavonia, a patroonship of Amsterdam businessman Michiel Reyniersz Pauw. Bout was the second of three superintendents for the patroonship. The spit of land on which the house was built (near contemporary Liberty State Park in Jersey City) was called ''Jan de Lacher's Hoeck''. or ''Jan the Laugher's Point'', apparently in reference to his boisterous character. It was at Bout's homestead that the Tappan and Wecquaesgeek had taken refuge, and was where they were attacked in 1643, in the incident known as the Pavonia Massacre which led to Kieft's War. Bout was member of the Council of Eight Men, a citizens advisory board for the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Jansen Van Barrefelt
Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt (c. 1520 – c. 1594) was a weaver, a Christian mystic and the author of several spiritual works using the pseudonym Hiël. Life Hendrik Jansen van Barrefelt was born c. 1520 in Barneveld, Netherlands and died in or after 1594 in Cologne. He married around 1550 and had several children. A former adherent of Menno Simons, the Anabaptist religious leader, Van Barrefelt became a follower of Hendrik Niclaes and joined the Family of Love. However, in 1573 Hendrik van Barrefelt had a vision and from this moment on he called himself "Hiël" (the uniform life of God). Shortly after this vision he broke with Niclaes and began to write his own works. His followers called themselves Hiëlists (lovers of the truth). Christophe Plantin, a well-known humanist, book printer and publisher in Antwerp and Leiden, also broke with Niclaes and became a follower and the central figure around Hiël. Works The emphasis of Hiël’s works was on the search for Christ in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guelders
The Duchy of Guelders (; ; ) is a historical duchy, previously county, of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries. Geography The duchy was named after the town of Geldern (''Gelder'') in present-day Germany. Though the present province of Gelderland (English also ''Guelders'') in the Netherlands occupies most of the area, the former duchy also comprised parts of the present Dutch province of Limburg as well as those territories in the present-day German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that were acquired by Prussia in 1713, which included the duchy's capital Geldern. Four parts of the duchy had their own centres, as rivers separated them: * the quarter of Roermond, also called Upper Quarter or Upper Guelders – upstream on both sides of the Maas, comprising the town of Geldern as well as Erkelenz, Goch, Nieuwstadt, Venlo and Straelen; spatially separated from the Lower Quarters (Gelderland): * the quarter of the county Zutphen, also called the Achterhoek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Van Schaffelaar
Jan van Schaffelaar ( 1445 – 1482) was a cavalry officer in the duchy of Guelders (or Gelre), the Netherlands. Born in the region of Barneveld in the Veluwe Quarter about 1445, he was in the military service of David of Burgundy, the Bishop of Utrecht during the region's factional war known as the Hook and Cod Wars. He famously jumped to his death to spare his besieged troops. Historical significance The oldest still existing historical record of Van Schaffelaar's actions can be found in the Utrecht Chronicle ("Utrechse Kroniek") titled "Annales Rerum in Hollandia et Dioceso Ultratrajectina gestarum Ann.MCCCCLXXXI et duobus seqq. auctore incerto sed accurato et aequali eorum temporum" ("Almanac of Holland-Utrecht Occurrences 1481-83, from the pen of an anonymous but trustworthy and contemporary author"), first published by the 17th-century Utrecht historian Antonius Matthaeus III in his series "Veteris aevi analecta" in 1698. According to this chronicle, on July 16, 1482, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zwartebroek
Zwartebroek is a village in the municipality of Barneveld in the Dutch province of Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Nethe ....Zwartebroek Plaatselijk Belang Zwartebroek Terschuur, retrieved: 27 February 2019 The village is situated on the Veluwe. It lies north of Terschuur and east of Hoevelaken. Like its neighbour [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voorthuizen
Voorthuizen ( Dutch Low Saxon: ''Voorthuzen'') is a village in the municipality of Barneveld, in the Dutch province of Gelderland. Tourism Voorthuizen is a tourist village, located on the edge of the Veluwe. East of the village is a high concentration of campsites. To the southeast, on the A1, lies the Zeumeren recreation area, which attracts around 400,000 visitors per year. The tourist season has been opened since 2014 with a one-day event, "Voorthuizen Straalt!". History Voorthuizen was founded, according to legend, near a crossing of a ford ('Voorde') of the Ganzenbeek, a brook that no longer exists, on the road from Amsterdam to Deventer. This road was called a "Hessenweg" ('Hessian road') because seasonal workers from Westphalia would travel along this road into the Netherlands. Another important road that lead through this place was the trade route from Harderwijk to Wageningen. This made Voorthuizen an important stop along these two routes. A new high road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terschuur
Terschuur is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Barneveld. History It was first mentioned around 1400 as "den teende ther schuren", and means "at the barn". Terschuur used to part of Zwartebroek Zwartebroek is a village in the municipality of Barneveld in the Dutch province of Gelderland Gelderland ( , ), also known as Guelders ( ) in English, is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands, located in the centre-east .... The village developed on the road from Amsterdam to Amersfoort. There used to be a toll house at the village. In 1421, the toll house was burnt down by angry citizens. The estate Terschuur which was built around 1830. The windmill is from 1881, but a predecessor used to be at the location before 1635. From 1888 until 1931 there was a railway stop at Terschuur. In 1930, it became a separate village. Notable people * Johan Jansen (born 1989), professional footballer Gallery File: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stroe, Gelderland
Stroe is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Barneveld, between the towns of Barneveld and Apeldoorn Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. The municipality of Apeldoorn, including the villages of Beekbergen, Loenen (Apeldoorn), Loenen, Ugchelen and Hoenderloo ....''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. Stroe is located on the railway line between these two towns, but the railway station closed in 1944. History It was first mentioned in 1296 as "Wlfumdus de Struode", and means "swamp with overgrowth". In 1840, it was home to 122 people. In 1966, a village house was opened in Stroe. In 1951, the army base Wittenberg was constructed near Stroe. In 1978, it was renamed Major-General Koot Barracks after . Gallery File:RM8625 Hooimansgoed.JPG, Farm in Stroe File:Station Stroe.jpg, Former railway station Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
