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to Rotterdam. BERGEN OP ZOOM 36. Route. 299
Zuid-Be veland and Walcheren. — 12'/, M. "S Heer-Arendskerke.
ar Goes is the Wilhelmina Polder, upwards of 4000 acres in
, reclaimed from the sea in 1809.
, M. Goes (Hétel de Korenbveurs, ue Zoutkeet, both in the
e Markt, R. & B. from 13/4, D. 14/) fi.), or ter Goes, the capital
b.) of the island of Zuid peenae with the insignificant
hateau of Ostende (in the courtyard of the inn of that
ly ST to Countess Jacqueline of Bavaria. The
consecrated in 1423, has a small tower over the
y is a handsome Gothic house. The Court Room in
as fitted up about 1760 in the Louis XV. style, and
s in grisaille by M. Jos. Geeraerts. Interesting
may be witnessed during the Kermesse, held at Goes
eptember, and at the weekly fair (Tues. ).
contains
local costam
in the beginning of
19 M. Kapelle-Biezelinge. Kapelle has an interesting church. —
At (24 M.) Vlake the Zuid-Beveland Canal (p. 206) is crossed.
21/5 M. Kruiningen- Yerseke (p. 206); 27 M. Krabbendyke ; 28'/5 M.
Rilland-Bath. To theright rises Fort Bath (p. 206). The train now
quits the province of Zeeland (p. 206), and crosses the Kreekerak,
an arm of the Scheldt now filled up. 341/, M. Woensdrecht
38!/y M. Bergen op Zoom (Hof van Holland, 15 R. from 14/5,
Jo, D. 44/2 fl., good; Gouden Leeuw ; Prins van Luik), with
,000 inhab., belonging originally to the margraviate of Stryen
5 ince the 12th cent. to Brabant, was in the 15th cent.,
g to its fisheries and cloth-trade, one of the most flourishing
towns in the Netherlands. The town was captured by the ‘Water
ars’ in 1576, but was fruitlessly besieged by the Spaniards in
1597, 1605, and 1622. Bergen, which came into the pos-
sion of the Elector Palatine by marriage in 1722, was captured
by the French in 1747 in spite of the strong fortifications con-
structed by Coehoorn (1641-1704), the famous Dutch general of
engineers. The Gnelith t failed in an attempt to take it by storm in
{514, Large quantities of oysters (‘Zeeland oysters’) are raised here.
The Stadhuis contains several portraits of Margraves of the pro-
vince and a fine late-Gothic chimney-piece of about 1492, formerly
preserved in the margraves’ palace (built in 1475), which is now
used as barracks. — The Gothic Groote Kerk, of the 13th cent.,
with double aisles and rows of chapels at both sides, was enlarged
in the 15th cent. by a second but never completed transept. The
building, which was injured by fire in 1584 and 1747, contains
several tombs of the 16-48th centuries. — The fine Gevangen-Poort,
one of the town-gates dating from the 15th cent., and a Lunette
near the former Wouw-Poort, are the only relics of the fortifications
now left. — Bands play several times weekly in summer in the
Volks-Park and the Coehoorn Park, The Spinolaberg, ox Heiberg,
commands an attractive view.
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