A428 Route 50. DEVENTER. From Amsterdam

Apeldoorn is the junction of railways from Dieren (p. 429) to Hatem
(p. 493) via Het Loo, and to Zutphen (p.480) vid Voorst. Voorst, with an
early-Gothic church (13ih cent.) and numerous villus is prettily situated
in the vicinity of the chateau of Wyenbeek (13th cent.).

The railway to Deventer diverges to the left from the Zutphen
line. Stations Teuge, Twelloo. The train crosses the Yssel, which
here forms the boundary between the provinces of Guelderland and
Over-Yssel.

66 M. Deventer. — Hotels. Hérer pz EncEL, Groote Kerkhof 31,
20 R. at 1/2, B. 3/4, D. 13/, l.; De Keizerskroon, Stroomarkt, R. & B. from
48/;f1.; De Weretp, Korte Bisschop-Straat, R. & B. 411/s-2fl.; De Keizer,
at the station, R. & B. 11/23 fl. The three last have cafés-restaurants.

Deventer, situated in the province of Oyver-Yssel (i.e. ‘beyond
the Yssel’), is a clean and prosperous town with 28,000 inhab. and
thriving iron-foundries and carpet-manufactories. It is famous for
its honey-cakes (Deventer koek), a kind of gingerbread. Deventer
at one time was subject to the bishop of Utrecht; it joined the
Hanseatic League; and in 1591 was captured by Maurice of Orange.
It was the birthplace of the celebrated philologist Jacob Gronoyvius
(1645-1716), and of the theologian Gerrit Groote (1340-84), founder
of the ‘Brotherhood of the Common Life’.

The large Gothic *Groote Kerk, or church of St. Lebuinus, has
a Romanesque crypt of the end of the 11th cent. and a Gothic tower
of the 15th cent. ; the other tower is unfinished. A little to the W.
is the dilapidated Gothic Church of Our Lady(45th cent.). The Berg
Kerk has two late-Romanesque towers. — The Stadhuis contains a
good painting of the council-room with the burgomasters and coun-
cillors, by Terburg, who was Burgomaster of Deventer in his later
years and died here in 1681. The neighbouring Police Office is
a Renaissance edifice of 1632. — In the ‘Brink’, the finest square
in the town, are the late-Gothic Weigh House of 1528 (now a gym-
nasium), with a large outside staircase of 1643-44, and several
elegant private houses (‘Three Golden Herrings’, etc.).

From DEvVENTER To ZWoLLe, 18'/2 M., railway in !/2-4!/, hr. — 3 M.
Diepenveen; 6 M. Olst, with 4500 inhab. and extensive brick-fields. — 10 M.
Wyhe (H6t. Kroes), a straggling village with 4000 inhab., in a beautifully-
wooded district with numerous villas (‘Buitenplaatsen’). — 14 M. Windes-
heim. — 4181/2 M. Zwolle, see p. 424.

From Deventer To ZuTPHEN, 10 M., railway in 16-35 min., via (5 M.)

Gorssel. — Stram Tramway from Deventer, vid Laren and Lochem (p. 430),
to Borculo (p. 429).

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The next stations are unimportant. In the church of Bathmen
frescoes, supposed to date from 1379, were discovered in 1870.
Then Dykerhoek, Holten, Ryssen, and Wierden (also a station on
the line from Zwolle to Gronau).

87 M. Almelo (Hét.- Restaurant Centraal), a small town of 4000
inhab., with a chateau of Count Rechteren-Limpurg, where the

line from Zwolle to Gronau joins ours. — At (991/, M.) Hengeloo
our line joins the line from Arnhem via Zutphen (p. 430). —