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Enkhuizen (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛŋkˈɦœyzə(n)] ⓘ) is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. History [ edit ]
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 ...
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.
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. The fishing grounds were now fresh-water and the fish changed from fish like herring and anchovy to eel , smelt and red perch .
Pages in category "Enkhuizen" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
A sicko from New Jersey allegedly took part in a neo-Nazi child-porn ring whose members groomed children online and extorted them to send self-produced, sexually-explicit videos, federal ...
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 ...