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So experience the Middle Ages during our visit to Wageningen from Sunday, June 6th to Sunday, July 25th, 2021, daily between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Our location: across from Grebbedijk 6A 6702DG Wageningen
CORONA info:
School classes and groups please book in advance by email or tel. 06-21111245.
When visiting, please show via the CoronaCheck App that you are Corona-free or have a Certificate of Vaccination or Recovery. In other cases 1,5 meters is required.
And if you have a cold or a fever, please come another time just to be sure when you are better.
History of Wageningen
Roof tiles with the stamp of a Roman legion were found on the floor of the Wageningse Berg. However, there is no evidence of a Roman position on this north side of the Rhine. The Roman Vada probably meant a settlement near the North Brabant village of Kessel aan de Maas and not Wageningen, as was long assumed.
The oldest known settlement in Wageningen, the predecessor of the city, was probably at the foot of the Holleweg. At the beginning of the High Middle Ages, the settlement moved higher; The remains of a tuff chapel and wooden farmhouses have been found on the Wageningse Berg near the Holleweg. In the twelfth century a new settlement was built at the foot of the mountain. After the construction of a quay that connects the flank of Wageningse Berg and the higher ground west of today's city, today's Hoogstraat, the oldest part of the city was built south of it around the Heerenstraat (formerly Achterstraat) and the church. Later the regular side street pattern (Beuningstraat, Junusstraat, Rouwenhofstraat, Riemsdijkstraat) was laid out on the north side of the Hoogstraat.of Gelre the city rights.
After the fortifications were dismantled in the 19th century, part of the former city walls was built on, including the buildings east of the Schoolstraat and Molenstraat and the buildings at Emmapark. A synagogue and a Baptist church were built on the former west wall at the beginning of the 20th century. Both were destroyed in 1940 and not rebuilt in the same place. After the Second World War, the wall was excavated here for the construction of the Walstraat and student apartments were built on a remaining part of the wall. These are still there today. Finally, in 2000, on the site of the former wall next to the street, a memorial was unveiled to commemorate the many Jewish victims of the Second World War from Wageningen.
Andere Teile der ehemaligen Festung erhielten eine parkähnliche Struktur, wie zum Beispiel das ehemalige Noorderplantsoen. Beim Bau einer Verkehrsstraße (Plantsoen) wurde ein Teil dieser Struktur geopfert. Die Straße, die das östliche Bergpoort und das westliche Nudepoort verband, die Hoogstraat, ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten die Straße, in der sich Ladenbesitzer niederließen. Seit 1975 ist diese Straße als Fußgängerzone konzipiert. Auch in vielen Seitenstraßen der Hoogstraat, wie Kapelstraat, Nieuwstraat und Junusstraat, gibt es bedeutende Konzentrationen der Mittelschicht. Die Gastronomie konzentriert sich hauptsächlich auf den Markt, die Heerenstraat und die Molenstraat.
The grave field at the corner of Geertjesweg and Diedenweg was used between approx. 350 and approx. 900. Presumably the burials came from the different parts of the city of Wageningen, which lay on the border of the moraine flank and the inland field. The districts De Peppeld (near Wildekamp) and Leeuwen (around the restaurant Het Gesprek, formerly De Keijzer) can be recognized; the characteristic drinking basin or the channel is also present in both quarters. The hamlet of Dolder was at the intersection of Van Uvenweg / Churchillweg / Dolderstraat. Dolder of Thulere was mentioned as early as 838, as was Brakel (Bracola) on the corner of Julianastraat and Van Uvenweg.
The different quarters were built according to the same principle: farms around a common agricultural area (Brink), to the east the arable land (on the then much larger Wageningen narrow) and west the hamlets the meadows in the Binnenveld, very regularly laid out. This inland field was cultivated from the thirteenth century.
Important courtyards were the Stenen Kamer in Dolder (built in 1597, demolished in 1954) and the Tarthorst on Tarthorsterweg, today Haverlanden (demolished in 1969). The village squares were connected to the meadows in the Binnenveld by shaft drives. The shaft drive of the Droevendaalsesteeg has remained relatively intact. Old alders can still be found along the way.
For the counts and dukes of Gelre, Wageningen was not only a trading port but also a fortress against the bishops of Utrecht and later the dukes of Burgundy. The old canal (narrower than before) and parts of the (renovated) city wall can still be admired. The last Duke, Karel van Egmond, therefore had Wageningen Castle built within the fortress in 1526-1527. The foundations of three towers and part of the outer wall can still be seen. At the end of the 19th century, the residential area Bowlespark, which was built on with villas, was built on the former castle park, which largely still exists and is protected as a municipal monument.
Wageningen Castle was sold in 1702 by the States of Gelderland to Anna Maria Ripperda, widow of Drost Assueer Torck, mother of the last Drost Lubbert Adolph Torck. The Torck family converted the palace into a small city palace with a baroque garden. Lubbert Adolph Torck was married to the wealthy widow Petronella van Hoorn, daughter of a governor general of the East Indies. Later he inherited the castle in Rozendaal near Arnhem from his aunt Rosendael. Torck was politically active in The Hague and, as mayor of Wageningen, commissioned various public works. He invested in the city by building villas for retirees from the Dutch East India Company. That would become important later, because Wageningen provided such a complex - the so-called "Bassecour".to bring the national agricultural school to the city in 1873.
Wageningen, windmill
Wageningen had several windmills in the past. As early as the Middle Ages, there were two mills on the former Molenweg, today's Generaal Foulkesweg. The last of these mills was demolished around 1996, the Eendracht. The De Vlijt mill, built at the end of the 19th century, is located on Harnjesweg, formerly surrounded by farmland. This mill is one of the few that is still in professional operation, in particular there is a large amount of organically ground grain products available.
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