Walking tour: saturday through EUROPe IN GRONINGEN Open Monument day European eyes 8 On Saturday 8 September 2018 Groningen september Groningen is an increasingly international city. That’s clear not celebrates the 23rd edition of the national Open just from architectural styles and the global cuisine to be found; Monument Day. The theme of the day this year 2018 it’s evident from the many international residents. But how is ‘In Europe’. Groningen employs this theme to do these Europeans actually see and experience the city? Two spotlight European influences on (and elements guides, one from Croatia and one from Switzerland, both living of) the cultural heritage of the city. In addition, in Groningen, will give personal tours in which they show us you’ll get the chance to view the city in a their Groningen. Which places remind them of home, which are different way, namely through European eyes their favorite buildings and why?

Groningen reveals itself to be very much situated in Europe; Time: 16.00 and 19.30 European influences can be found everywhere in our cultural Duration: 2 hours heritage. Start: entrance to the Groninger Museum, Museum Island 1 Mandatory registration: online via platformgras.nl/OMD18 (max. The population is also international: many foreign students and 20 pers.) expats have found their way to this bustling little city. For Open

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1 CITY HALL 9 Grote Markt 1 3 MARTINI CHURCH 6 PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT 10.00 - 17.00 Martinikerkhof 3 BUILDING OF GRONINGEN In 1775, a contest was drawn up for a new 10.00 - 17.00 built. The tower consists of three parts: Martinikerkhof 12 design of the Stadhuis (City Hall), because The current Martinikerk is the fourth a steel structure, a masonry shaft, and 10.00 - 17.00 its medieval style no longer fitted the church to be located at the Martini above it a large steel water reservoir. The Provinciehuis (provincial government city’s image. Jacob Otten Husly submitted churchyard. The construction of this The tower is just over 45 meters high and building) is made up of various buildings enormously. The current Korenbeurs, 9 PELSTERGASTHUIS the winning design, in a Neoclassical style. Romanesque style church in honour of can hold up to a million liters of water. from different periods. Its main building constructed between 1862-1865, was HEILIGEN GEEST GASTHUIS Its construction started in 1793 but due to St. Martin was started around 1220 AD. The steel substructure was new to the on the Martini churchyard dates back to designed by City Architect J.G. van Pelsterstraat 43 external circumstances - such as budge- For Groningen, the 15th century was an , but was more commonly the early 1900s. The building behind this, Busekom. It is the third structure built 10.00 - 17.00 tary problems, political tensions and the economic golden age, causing the church used in Germany and Scandinavia. Perhaps housing the historical Council Chamber, on the same spot. Whereas the front DThe Pelstergasthuis is the largest and French occupation – it took a staggering to expand grow into the hall church it because of this, The NV Groninger Water- used to be a grammar school and dates building was designed in a classicist oldest guesthouse (or almshouse) in 36 years to complete. It even took until is today. Eventually, the iconic Martini leiding commissioned the German firm back to the late Middle Ages. The school style, the trade hall was very modern for the city. In 1267, the guesthouse was 1872 before the west side of the building Tower was built. It is still one of the A. Wilke & Co. Dampfkessel und Gasometer also housed the Board of City and Land its time, due to its cutting-edge glass mentioned for the first time when Pope was fully finished, when expansion was highest towers in the Netherlands! The Fabrik from Braunschweig to built it. The until 1871. That year, a new government and cast iron structures. Clement IV gave permission to have the necessary. In the end, the open courtard 17th century south portal, including the design was probably done by a well-known building was built in front of the old cemetery of the guesthouse be blessed. was able to be realized just as Husley had Bread and Butter House (almshouse), industrial engineer, Carl Francke from school building. Its extension,, added in The oldest parts of the guesthouse imagined it almost a century earlier. was rebuilt in a simplified form. The poor Bremen. 1996, was of an unprecedented scale 8 WAREHOUSE LIBAU were the chapel, the infirmary and the and homeless were welcomed there for in this part of the city. The structure Hoge der A 5 lodgings at Pelsterstraat. Here the poor a simple meal. The church houses the was built on a comb-like ground plan, 10.00 - 14.00 and also travellers were also taken 2 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY world-renowned Arp Schitger organ, 5 CENTRAL STATION designed by architect Mels Crouwel. This residence and warehouse dates care of. The infirmary was demolished Broerstraat 4 partially dating back to the Middle Stationsplein 4 A glass air bridge ties together the new from the 14th or 15th century. It was around 1860. Now it’s the the building 10.00 - 17.00 Ages. It’s probably the most visited monument and the old parts of the building. Since converted into a warehouse in the 19th of a former school RHBS, which was The University Library Groningen has in Groningen: the central train station. 1602, the Provincial Council States have century. Until the 1870s, Libau and the built on the same spot in 1862. Around existed since 1615 and is one of the oldest Amsterdam native Isaac Gosschalk been gathering in the Council Chamber. neighbor at number 6 formed a complex that time the chapel was decorated in libraries in the Netherlands. The library 4 WATER TOWER NORTH designed the building, which was built This fact is completely unique in the of grain warehouses. The building the neoclassical style which it still has, was housed in a wing of the former Fran- Noorderbinnensingel 14 in 1895-96 in a masterful merging of Netherlands; no other province has the has three floors with a top facade after a design by J. Maris. In the chapel, ciscan monastery opposite the academy 10.00 - 17.00 neo-gothic and neo-renaissance style. same long-standing tradition of gathering under a so-called saddle roof. The four that is used together with the Walloon on the Broerstraat. In 1864 a new building When Groningen was hit by a cholera The demolition of the city’s bulwarks in the same conference room. semi-circle closed hatches are flanked church, the oldest piece of furniture is was taken into use, built according to a epidemic in 1866, the municipality decided from 1874 onwards enabled the station to by narrow, semi-circular windows. The the pulpit which dates from the first design by architect J. W. Schaap. This too to build a water supply network. Water be built at this location. Its tall entrance wooden house is still visible in the top half of the 17th century. You will also soon became too small and was replaced towers were built at three different hall and elongated side wings with open 7 CORN EXCHANGE façade. The name Libau, the old German find a beautiful van Hinsz organ from in 1919 by the new building by J.A. Vrijman. locations to guarantee the required water arcades made the station a new and Akerkhof 1 name for Liepāja, a port city on the 1774. Of special note is the stucco on the However, after the explosive growth of pressure: the Sterrebos (1880), at the appealing entryway to the city. The jewel 8.00 - 21.45 Baltic Sea, is a reference to the trade north wall in English neo-Gothic style. Groningen University after the Second Noorderbinnensingel (1908) and on in the station’s crown is the central hall For a long time, Groningen was the with Latvia, as well as the other Baltic The weighing room and guardroom World War, this building was again out- Hofstede de Grootkade (1911). The with its vibrant Jugendstil tile tableaus regional and later national capital of grain countries. In the 18th and especially the with beautiful rococo-mantelpiece grown. In 1987, a completely new library northern water tower on the Noorder- and its richly painted ceiling embellished trade. This originates in the medieval 19th century there was a lot of export, are worth seeing, as well as the three was built on the site of the binnensingel is the most special of these with ‘papier-collé‘: a very unusual and ‘stack right’, which meant that all the especially of grain, from Groningen to courtyards with the house wings dating according to the design by P.H Tauber. The three. It was the first Dutch water tower labour-intensive technique. The former provincial grain had to be sold at the city these countries. The warehouse has from different construction periods. University Museum is now housed in the with a steel substructure construction, third class waiting room features a map market. During the second half of the been restored and is now used as an The guesthouse is still managed by old building at the Zwanestraat. and only three of these type were ever of the Dutch railroads. 19th century, the grain trade expanded office. independent trustees.