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Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. [1] [2] [3] The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of painting and other artistic objects from the last six centuries. [2]
The end of Dordrecht as a first rate sea harbor came about when the Nieuwe Waterweg became fully usable in 1883. [18] Compared to Dordrecht, Rotterdam sent about four times as much cargo up the Rhine to Germany in 1875. In 1895 this was 30 times as much and in 1910 about 200 times. In absolute numbers cargo from Dordrecht declined by more than ...
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Old City Hall of Dordrecht on the Stadhuisplein. The City Hall in Dordrecht is a renaissance building decorated in neoclassic style on the Stadhuisplein and over one of the city harbors; the Voorstraathaven. It is the seat of the city's government, which first received city rights in 1220, and today it is still the place where residents often ...
A chapel in Dordrecht is mentioned in a chapter of 1122, although the exact date of when the church was established is unknown. [2] [3] In 1986, excavations in the church uncovered the remains of a thirteenth-century Romanesque apse belonging to the previous building, with the interior being 9 meters in width.
The relief above the doorway facing the river was designed by Gillis Huppe in 1618 and shows the Dordrecht maiden sitting in the "Garden of Holland", holding a palm branch in her left hand and the city shield in her right hand, based on an earlier design by the Dordrecht painter Gerrit Gerritsz Cuyp. She is surrounded by 16 city shields of ...
Dordrecht is a railway station in Dordrecht, Netherlands located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the Elst–Dordrecht railway.The station was opened on 1 January 1872, when the railway line between Rotterdam and Antwerp was opened.