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Ottho Gerhard Heldring
Ottho Gerhard Heldring (17 May 1804 – 11 July 1876) was a Dutch preacher and philanthropist who believed in justification through faith but also in social work. He was one of the early leaders of the Dutch temperance movement. He is known for establishing homes and schools for prostitutes wishing to start a new life and for vulnerable girls and young women. Early years Ottho Gerhard Heldring was born on 17 May 1804 at Zevenaar, the third son of Reverend Ottho Gerhard Heldring (1762–1841) and Louisa Geertruida Janssen (1764–1840). Heldring grew up in a pietist family environment. He went to Utrecht to study theology when he was sixteen, but was deeply disturbed by the humanistic and rationalistic theology he was exposed to there, and abandoned his studies after a spiritual crisis. He worked on the land for a period, then at his father's request became a pastor. He was admitted to this profession by the Hemmen municipality and confirmed on 25 March 1827. He would remain in this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zetten
Zetten is a village in the Overbetuwe municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands. The village is located in the Betuwe. This is also the base of the (forensic) youth-clinic Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting, founded as the "Steenbeek" asylum for reforming prostitutes by Ottho Gerhard Heldring. History Archaeology, Archaeological finds indicate that the area around Zetten and the neighbouring village of Herveld was inhabited in the Roman Empire, Roman era. The area was located on the border of the Empire and the area inhabited by Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes. It is located between two rivers, on slightly higher ground, such that it was less often flooded in times when no dykes were present. The settlement of ''Sethone'' (Zetten) was mentioned in a deed of 1005, in which Heribert of Cologne gave the local church to the monastery in Cologne-Deutz, Deutz. Six inhabitants of Zetten lost their lives in floodings of the Betuwe in 1809. The area around Zetten and the nearby village of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zevenaar
Zevenaar () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in the Gelderland province, in the eastern Netherlands near the border with Germany. In January 2018 the neighbouring municipality of Rijnwaarden was merged with Zevenaar. Population centres *Angerlo *Babberich *Giesbeek *Lathum *Ooy *Oud-Zevenaar *Zevenaar History The earliest signs of human activity are remains of a 700 BC settlement found near present-day Zevenaar. In 1049, Emperor Hendrik III donated a large amount of land to five warlords the leader of whom was named Bartholomeus II of Sevenaer. They founded a castle to protect the old Roman settlements from the Germans. In 1355 Sevenaer passed from the control of the county/Duchy of Guelders (to which the modern Dutch province of Gelderland refers) to the Duchy of Cleves (Cleveland). In 1487, the duke of Cleves gave Sevenaer City rights in the Low Countries, city rights. Sevenaer was an important strategic point – the area between Gelderland a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoenderloo
Hoenderloo () is a Dutch village located south west of the city of Apeldoorn. Most of the village is part of the municipality of Apeldoorn, but a small part belongs to the municipality of Ede, among which the hamlet Hoog Baarlo. The village is located in the Southern part of the Veluwe and close to the national park Hoge Veluwe and the Deelerwoud. It is a very touristic village, with a large number of camping sites, recreation parks, restaurants, hotels and shops. History It was first mentioned in 1748 as "Hoender Lo Struycken", and means forest with galliformes. In 1813, the shephard Albert Brinkenberg becomes the first official resident. In 1840, there were 24 sod houses at the site. In 1841, during his travels the vicar Ottho Heldring stumbled upon the remote village and decided to invest in the village by building a well, a school in 1846 and a church in 1858. In 1848, a predecessor of the current Hoenderloo Group, at that time an institution for underprivileged boys, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrik Pierson
Hendrik Pierson (10 July 1834 – 7 August 1923) was a Dutch Lutheran minister and member of the Réveil religious revival movement. He was president of the Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting, an asylum for reformed prostitutes, from 1877 to 1914. He was one of the leaders of the campaign to abolish state regulation of prostitution, and in 1898 became president of the International Abolitionist Federation.. Early years Hendrik Pierson was born in Amsterdam on 10 July 1834, the fourth child of Jan Lodewijk Gregory Pierson (1806–1873) and Ida Oyens (1808–1860). He grew up in a genteel middle-class environment. He was influenced by the poetic piety of his mother and the prophetic spirit of Isaac da Costa. He studied theology in Utrecht, and in 1857 became a minister in Heinenoord, in South Holland. On 4 May 1857, he married Hermine Agnes Kolff (1833–1870). They would have six children. During the years that followed he was influenced by modernism, and later said he learned to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting
Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting ''(Dutch:'' Ottho Gerhard Heldring Foundation'')'' is a Dutch orthopaedic institution in Zetten, Netherlands. The facility is a private (non governmental) managed centre for youth with severe behaviour and often also psychiatric problems. The facility caters for youth from 12 – 18 years old (sometime max 24 at end of stay, normal intelligent and without very serious addiction problems. Youth living at the facility are sent via the (juvenile) court when the judge decides that juvenile needs treatment (for his (mis)behaviour / behaviour problems) in a closed setting. History The facility is named after Ottho Gerhard Heldring, in his time a famous Dutchman. As author and pastor he worried about and cared for the less fortunate and people with problems. In 1848 he founded the first society offering a place to young women who were pregnant against their will. The children of these women were raised by his society and received education. Also youngsters t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 August 1945. Following the Indonesian National Revolution, Indonesian War of Independence, Indonesia and the Netherlands Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference, made peace in 1949. In the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, the Dutch ceded the governorate of Dutch Malacca to Britain, leading to its eventual incorporation into Malacca, Malacca (state) of modern Malaysia. The Dutch East Indies was formed from the nationalised Factory (trading post), trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Batavian Republic, Dutch government in 1800. During the 19th century, the Dutch fought Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, many wars against indigenous rulers and peoples, which caused hundreds of thousands of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Paulownapolder
The Anna Paulownapolder () is a polder in the municipality of Hollands Kroon in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. The area of the polder is 50 square kilometres and it forms an important horticulture area, with among other things flower bulb cultivation. The Anna Paulownapolder was from the 7th century to the 12th centuries, the habitat of both the Frisian and Gelderlandish emigrants. The latter lived in the area where now the places Westeinde and Gelderse Buurt are. Afterwards the area became uninhabitable because of several storms and floods. After impoldering of the Zijpe in the 16th century, other areas were drained slowly. In 1846, the Anna Paulownapolder was drained at last, with private money. The polder is named after the wife of King Willem II, Anna Pavlovna of Russia. The new polder was then under the municipality of Zijpe Zijpe () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. In 2013, Zijpe and Harenkarspel merged i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betuwe
Betuwe (), also known in English as Batavia ( ), is a historical and geographical region in the Netherlands, forming large fertile islands in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, river delta formed by the waters of the Rhine (Dutch: ''Rijn'') and Meuse (Dutch: ''Maas'') rivers. During the Roman Empire, it was an important frontier region and source of imperial soldiers. Its name is possibly pre-Roman. Administratively, the modern version, Betuwe, is a part of the modern province of Gelderland and although the rivers and provinces have changed over history it is roughly the same. Today it has the Waal (river), Waal river on the south and the Lek (river), Lek and Nederrijn in the north (all rivers which start in the delta itself and are branches of the Rhine or Maas). Historically, the former municipality of Rijnwaarden belonged to Betuwe, now in Zevenaar, which was cut off by the building of the Pannerdens Kanaal. A major freight railroad, the Betuweroute, passes through the Betuwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réveil
The Réveil (French for "revival", "awakening") of 1814 was a revival movement within the Swiss Reformed Church of western Switzerland and some Reformed communities in southeastern France. Origins The supporters were also called pejoratively ''momiers''. The movement was initially prompted by small Moravian communities implanted by earlier Moravian missionary efforts and much helped by British Presbyterians such as Robert Haldane or Henry Drummond, or Methodists such as Charles Cook; several members of Free Church of Scotland moved over to the Continent after Napoleon's fall. Among the leading personalities of the Réveil are Henri-Louis Empaytaz, César Malan, Louis Gaussen, Ami Bost, Henri Pyt, Antoine Jean-Louis Galland and Adolphe Monod as well as the controversial Barbara von Krüdener. Having accused the Protestant state church of apostasy from true Christianity, most of the Geneva momiers walked out of the State church in 1831 and set up the Evangelical Society in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maatschappij Tot Nut Van 't Algemeen
The Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen (Nut for short; Society for Public Welfare) is a non-profit organization in the Netherlands founded in 1784 with the purpose of developing individuals and society, primarily through education. It had great influence in improving public education through better textbooks, model schools and teacher's training. The society continues to be involved in extracurricular education. Origins At the end of the 18th century, there were many freethinkers and believers in democracy in the Netherlands, who felt that better education would bring greater prosperity for all. A group of friends of the Baptist minister Jan Nieuwenhuijzen from Monnickendam and Edam in North Holland decided to found a society that would help underprivileged people gain education by providing them with books written in simple language. The minister's son, doctor Martinus Nieuwenhuijzen, took the lead in founding a society with the goal of "improving the school system and the edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Netherlands by land area, and second by total area. Gelderland shares borders with six other provinces (Flevoland, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, North Brabant, Overijssel, South Holland and Utrecht (province), Utrecht) and the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The capital is Arnhem (pop. 159,265); however, Nijmegen (pop. 176,731) and Apeldoorn (pop. 162,445) are both larger municipalities. Other major regional centres in Gelderland are Ede, Netherlands, Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Harderwijk, Tiel, Wageningen, Zevenaar, and Winterswijk. Gelderland had a population of about 2,134,000 as of January 2023. It contains the Netherlands's largest forest region (the Veluwe), the Rhine and other major rivers, and a significant amount of o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
