Idle words and the Netherlands

Posted on December 22, 2003 by Arthur

Blogger Maciej recently visited The Netherlands and has some interesting notes on the cities he visited: Utrecht, Haarlem and Rotterdam. Plenty of pictures, too, sobering though: the pictures reveal typical Dutch Fall weather to me.

Weird feelings when seeing the Haarlem pictures: the city just looks like my (old) hometown, Deventer. Which is no surprise: back in the days both cities were fairly competitive trade centers and if I’m not wrong, both cities got their ‘city’ rights around the same time (1245).

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2 Responses to Idle words and the Netherlands

  1. Ruben says:
    December 23, 2003 at 2:13 am AST

    I do think you’re wrong. As far as I know Deventer received its city rights, or stadsrechten in Dutch, a little before the year 1000 AD.

    But I agree that the two cities, now fairly unimportant, are very much alike.

  2. Arthur says:
    December 23, 2003 at 7:07 am AST

    As far as I know Deventer received its city rights, or stadsrechten in Dutch, a little before the year 1000 AD.

    There are confusing stories about the Deventer stadsrechten. Some say the city received the rights in 1200 (Stads en Athenaeum Bieb), whereas others say Deventer became a city around 956.

    …now fairly unimportant…

    Deventer’s Go Ahead Eagles Basketball club is widely known here ;-)

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