Hoorn.  (20 km) 

In a visit in Hoorn, one senses it immediately: Hoorn maintains its past, arranged the view however also on the 21st century.

Blooming trade city.

Hoorn received 1357 the city rights and developed itself quickly to an important harbor city. In the so named golden age, the united Ostindienkompanie left became itself among other things also here down and Hoorn a blooming trade city.

Hundreds from ships Hoorn went over the world oceans and turned pass load with trade ware home.

Spice as well as pepper, nutmeg, carnations became with high profit sold.

The trade and the ship trip made the enterprising citizens of Hoorn far over the country boundary out famously.

Storms heavy the discovery trip Willem Cornelisz Schouten trotzte and umrundete in the year 1616 the most southern point of South America.

Fisherman village.

 Wealth, power and prosperity went in the 18th century to end.

Hoorn became a verschlafenes fisherman village at the Zuiderzee.

After the French predominance, a time broke on, in which the city turned away itself gradually of the sea, and to a market center of the agriculture zone west frieze country developed.

Market sales people and store proprietor specialized themselves on the trade with dairy products and agricultural seeds.

With the building of railroad lines and streets end the 19th century.

The city became century a well attainable center in the network of the cities and villages in Noord-Holland.

Gardening cultivation.

After the second world war again a growth period inserted.

Middle in a blooming gardening cultivation, a center city with a mixed economy emerged.

In the Sechzigerjahren, Hoorn became of the government the relief zone for the overfull Randstad, that concentration room in the west of the Netherlands explains.

Harmonious entire.

 Hoorn passed through an enormous growth process in the last half century and counts in the mean time more than 66.000 inhabitant.

Also today and in the next years be yet constructed.

Not only at the outskirts, new residential zones emerge, also directly in the inner cities and on that adjacent new dwellings are constructed.

The Apartments round around the Karperkuil prove that through new construction in a historic zone a surprising and harmonious entire can emerge.

Hoorn offers not only its characteristic inhabitants, but rather a complete and change empire offer at bildings-, healthness-, cultivation and leisure time arrangements to the total region. Student out of the villages and cities of west frieze country, but also of outside of the region visit a continuing in Hoorn or berufsbildende waiter training.

The sand mountain institute, that arrangement for postgraduale courses of the Amsterdammer Rietveldakademie, is in the art and cultivation city Hoorn exact at the correct place.

Art and cultivati on.

The jahrhundertealten monuments form a magnificent wing for the contemporary art and cultivation.

Hoorn has 365 monuments to show and is therewith after Amsterdam and Haarlem the third monument city of Noord-Holland.

To the most famous monuments, building, that stand at both oldest places of the city, the Roode Steen and the Kerkplein belong.

In the scales erected by Hendrick de Keyser 1609 at the Roode Steen to start of the last century, cheese gewogen became.

Vis-á-vis the gable decorated, colorful with lions and city crest of the from the year 1632 coming Statencollege, the former seat de regional administration is located.

The building harbors today the Westfriesische museum in which the cultivation heir of the golden age be issued.

Brown fleet.

The city makes available more and more Baudenkmäler for displays and organizations.

That in the year 1563 erected St. Jansgasthuis at the Kerkplein was original a hospital.

Later became here with butter acted and baptized one it therefore around in Boterhal (butter hall). Now it be used as a display room for works from artists the entire country.

The Pakhuis in the street Onder de Boompjes, that served in the times of the united Ostindienkompanie as a spice storage, is today an important platform for the amateur theater. The monuments of Hoorn are confessed far over the country boundary out.

In the Japanese Nagasaki Holland Village, 16 monument remote control switches building became out of Hoorn nachgebaut, among other things the Hoofdtoren (head tower) from the year 1632, one of the most characteristic monuments of the city.

The Verteidigungsbollwerk offers a lovely outlook over the harbor with the brown fleet.

There also the going monuments, the historic Dutch fisherman boats are located Schouw and Botter.

International Flair.

Also the tourism creates work places and became an important receipt source.

The landscape and the kulturhistorische heir are the trumps of the city.

Annually come later about a half million day visitor Hoorn.

In the summer, the harbor and the lake Markermeer dress numerous water athletes and recovery that which is sought.

The harbor developed itself to a water sport center with international Flair and be supposed to be completed the number of the couch places in the future further.

The environment of Hoorn offers many bicycles and to footpath that pass diagonally through the far Polderlandschaft.

They lead the visitor over little Binnendeiche and at old villages past or over the Omringdijk, that dike, that protected once the country against the sea.

In Beemster Polder, that was explained by the Unesco to the world cultivation heir, one finds yet the summer houses of the Hoorner sales people out of the 17th century.

But in spite of the entire scenic and kulturhistorischen splendor it yet in the end the inhabitants of Hoorn itself, who lend the city its cultural and dynamic radiation and who provide for renewal, are.

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