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Enkhuizen, like Hoorn and Amsterdam, was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1355. On June 24, 1572 during the Eighty Years' War, in Enkhuizen five Franciscans from Alkmaar were hanged: known as the martyrs of Alkmaar.
Three crowned herrings in the shield of Enkhuizen carried by the city virgin. Enkhuizen is called 'Haringstad' (Herring Town) and was an important fishing port for centuries until the Zuiderzee was closed off in 1932 by the construction of the Afsluitdijk.
In 1816 Enkhuizen received a new coat of arms, acknowledged by the High Council of Nobility. [1] The herrings on the seal have never been crowned. In the atlas made by Willem Blaeu they do wear crowns. The coat of arms is shown in azure and argent. The coat of arms is also shown in the canton of the flag of Enkhuizen.
Jan Verbruggen worked in the city bell foundry on the present-day Donkerelaantje at Emmaplein in Enkhuizen, where the burial cellars of the cemetery are now located. Later he worked as a gunman for the English king in England. There is a small cannon in the collection of the Zuiderzee Museum which he made for the VOC room in Enkhuizen.
A community could not be sustained after the war's end, and in 1948, the Jewish community in Hoorn merged with that of Enkhuizen. [5] Discussions with the municipality did not lead to municipal funding for the neglected cemetery. [9] In 1953, the building that had housed the synagogue was sold to the city, and then torn down. [4]
Between 1590 and 1593 Enkhuizen was extended toward the west. A new city wall was built with a moat and seven bastions. At the Koepoort's current location, a wooden gate and a drawbridge were built. Half a century later plans were made for a stone gate building. The Koepoort's architect is probably Jacob van Campen. In 1649 the foundation stone ...
Cooltuyn's was the larger congregation, but his orthodoxy was questioned and in 1557 he was forced to leave Enkhuizen for Alkmaar. [ 2 ] Plans for a reorganization of part of the church were presented in 2012, [ 3 ] and in 2014 the expansion was done; it included the reorganization of the space by the Chapel of the Cross, on the north side of ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church on the Breedstraat 40, Enkhuizen, is a former church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.The congregation was founded in 1623 by the family of a Danish Lutheran merchant, Frederik Dirxen van Tatinghof, who had come to Enkhuizen for the trade in oxen, and was severely suppressed until 1641, when the congregation was allowed to ...