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6 Harderwijk
Road Map C3. * 38,500. £ @
n Academiestraat 5 (085-2733575).
( Sat am.
The eel-smoking frames may
have disappeared from the
streets, but the Zuiderzee town
of Harderwijk is still a pleasant
place to wander around. The
town has an interesting history.
In the 13th century it had
become so important through
fishing and the trade in dyes that
in 1221 Count Otto II of Gelre
granted it a town charter and
ordered fortifications to be built.
Remnants of the old fortifications
are still intact in places, including
the Vischpoort gate. Between
1647 and 1811 Harderwijk even Boats moored at the harbour of Harderwijk
had a university, from which
the Swedish scholar Linnaeus 1944 were taken from the 9 Wageningen
graduated in 1735. Harderwijk’s village to the Neuengamme Road Map C4. * 33,000. @
main attraction is the concentration camp, ( Wed am, Sat.
Dolfinarium (see p426), from where only 50
Europe’s largest zoo for returned alive. Wageningen, at the southwestern
marine animals. The edge of the Veluwe, is a
Veluws Museum P Stoomgemaal pleasant town that is home to
of local history in Ray Hertog Reijnout the local Landbouwuniversiteit
the Donkerstraat Zeedijk 6. Tel 065-3225997. (agricultural university). The
is also worth visiting. Open Apr–Sep: 10am–4pm Tue–Fri, university’s botanical gardens
10am–1pm Sat, 11am–4pm Sun. are open to the public. The
Closed Mon. & 8 town played an important
7 Nijkerk role at the end of World
War II; the Germans signed
Road Map C3. * 27,000. £ @ 8 Barneveld
n Verlaat 13 (055-5260200). ( Fri pm. the official surrender in the
Road Map D4. * 47,000. £ @ Hotel de Wereld.
Nijkerk is a pleasant old town n Langestraat 85a (0342-420555).
with many shops, restaurants ( Thu, Sat am. P Hotel De Wereld
and open-air cafés. The tobacco 5 Mei Plein 1. Tel 0317-460444.
industry made the town rich in Barneveld owes its place in Open Call ahead to book.
the 18th century. The Grote Kerk history books to one individual:
features the tomb of Kiliaen van Jan van Schaffelaar,
Renselaer, one of the founders commander-in-chief of the
of New York. Just outside armed forces, who on 16 July
Nijkerk, on the Arkemheem 1482 chose suicide rather than
polder, is the Hertog Reijnout surrender and leapt from the
stoomgemaal, a paddle- tower of today’s Nederlands
wheeled steam pumping- Hervormde kerk (Reformed
station, the last functioning one church). The Nairac museum
of its kind in Europe. Even today of local history devotes
it is used to pump water out considerable attention to
at times of flooding. this event. Today Barneveld
is known as a poultry centre.
Environs The local Pluimveemuseum
On the road to Putten is the (poultry museum) shows
Oldenaller estate with a castle how this industry has
from 1655. The cycling and developed here.
walking area is open to the
public. In Putten itself you can E Pluimveemuseum
visit De Gedachenisruimte (hall Hessenweg 2a. Tel 0342-400073.
of remembrance) in honour of Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm Tue–Sat.
the 600 men who in October & 7 The leap of Jan van Schaffelaar

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