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Wiki Commons (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Dutch_Empire35.PNG/800px-Dutch_Empire35.PNG) - The Dutch colonial empire 1598-1975.

Light green: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) / Dutch East India Company
Dark green: Vereenigde Westindische Compagnie (WIC) / Dutch West India Company
Yellow: Territories occupied during the 19th century



Statistics:

In 1935, the Dutch colonial empire was stripped of it's former colonies South-Africa, Ceylon, Goldcoast and Guyana, but the Dutch East Indies + Suriname + the 6 Netherlands Antilles islands still comprised an area of 2.080.000 sq/km and with a population of 69 million (1940: 80 million), it was after the British and French, the third most populous colonial empire in the world.

The Dutch East India Company eclipsed all of its rivals in the Asia trade. Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans to work in the Asia trade on 4,785 ships, and netted for their efforts more than 2.5 million tons of Asian trade goods. By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882,412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English (later British) East India Company, the VOC’s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2,690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC. The VOC enjoyed huge profits from its spice monopoly through most of the 17th century.



Duration of the most imporant (fmr) overseas possessions:

Dutch East Indies/Indonesia - (1598-1948) 350 years - (1942: area. 1.919.440 km² - population of 72 million) * Dutch New-Guinea (till 1969).
Suriname - (1600-1975) 375 years - (1975: area. 163,821 km2 - population of 361.000)
Coldcoast/Ghana - (1637-1872) 235 years
Ceylon/SriLanka - (1600-1805) 205 years
Guyana - (1600-1814) 214 years
Malacca/Malaysia - (1641-1824) 183 years
Kaapkolonie/South Africa - (1652-1805) 153 years - (1800: area. 145.000 km² - population of 18.000)
Mauritius - (1638-1710) 72 years
New Netherlands/New York (USA) - (1626-1667) 41 years
Dutch Formosa/Taiwan - (1624-1662) 38 years
Dutch Brazil - (1624-1654) 30 years
Japan (Hirado/Nagasaki) - (1641-1857) 216 years - trade monopoly



Important cities founded by the Dutch:

New Amsterdam/New York City (1614) - 8,5 million inh. (2010)
Batavia/Jakarta (1619) - on the remains of Jayacatra - 9,6 million inh. (2010)
Kaapstad/Cape Town (1652) - 3,5 million inh. (2007)
Mauritsstad/Recife (1630) - next to the Portuguese settlement - 1.5 million inh. (2010)



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Dutch explorers chronologically (1580-1750)

Olivier Brunel (http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/brunel.html) - 1584?: attempt to sail to Asia via a Northern Route. Earlier, in service of the Russian Stroganov's, Brunel reached the river Ob.
Willem Barentsz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Barentsz) - 1594: Sails along the western coast of Nova Zembla (and gave the island its name).
Cornelis Nay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Nay) - 1594: sails along Nova Zembla into the Kara Sea.
Willem Barentsz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Barentsz) - 1595: Failed attempt to sail beyond Nova Zembla.
Cornelis Houtman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_de_Houtman) - 1596-1597: first Dutch voyage to the East Indies.
Willem Barentsz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Barentsz) - 1596-1597: discovers Spitsbergen/Svalbard and Bear island/Bjørnøya. Rounds Nova Zembla, crew stranded and forced to spend winter in a wooden house.
Jacques Mahu (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Mahu) - 1598-1600: attempt to reach the East Indies via the Strait of Magellan. One of his ships land in Japan.
Olivier van Noort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_van_Noort) - 1598-1601: sails through the Strait of Magellan and around the world.
Pieter de Marees (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_de_Marees) - 1600-1602: leads an expedition to the Goldcoast of African Guinea.
Joris van Spilbergen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris_van_Spilbergen) - 1602: first Dutch captain to visit Ceylon and sails around the world in 1614-1617.
Willem Jansz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Janszoon) - 1605-1606: sails along the southcoast of New-Guinea and discovers New Holland/Australia.
Henry Hudson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hudson) (Englishman in service of the Dutch EIC) - 1609: discovers the river Hudson and sails it up to Fort Oranje (Albany).
Abraham Blauvelt (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Blauvelt) - (16??): city of Bluefields and Bluefield river (Nicaragua), Blewfields Bay (Jamaica).
Hendrik Brouwer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Brouwer) - 1611: discovers a faster route to the East Indies via the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
Adriaen Block (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Block) - 1613-1614: sails along the coast of New England and discovers the Connecticut river or "Versche rivier". Named Block island near Rhode (Dutch: Rode) island.
Jan Jacobsz. May van Schellinkhout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Jacobszoon_May_van_Schellinkhout) - 1614: Discovers and names the island of Jan Mayen.
Dirck Hartog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Hartog) - 1616: lands on the shores of the western coast of New-Holland/Australia.
Jacob Le Maire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Le_Maire) and Willem Cornelisz Schouten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Schouten)- 1615-1617: named kaap Hoorn (Cape Horn), Vuurland (Tierra del Fuego), Staten eiland (Isla de los Estados) and the Le Maire Strait was named in his honor. Searching for a new route to the East Indies. Discovered the Tonga islands the Hoorn islands/Wallis&Fortuna and the Schouten islands.
Jan Carstensz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Carstenszoon) - 1623: sails along the south coast of New Guinea and New Holland/Australia. Named Gulf of Carpentaria and discovers Arnhemland.
François Thijssen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Thijssen) - 1626-1627: explored the southern coast of New Holland/Australia, mapping more than 1500 kilometres.
François Pelsaert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pelsaert) - 1628-1629: famous as the commander of the ship Batavia, which ran aground in the Houtman Abrolhos off the coast of Western Australia.
Matthijs Quast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthijs_Quast) - 1639: discovers the Bonin Islands and mapped the coasts of Japan in more detail than before.
Abel Janszoon Tasman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman) - 1642-1643: discovers Tasmania, New-Zealand, the Fiji islands and visits the Tonga islands.
Maarten Gerritsz. de Vries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Gerritsz_Vries) - 1643: first European to sail on Hokkaido, the island of Sakhalin and the southern Kurilles (Staten island, Company island, De Vries Strait).
Abel Janszoon Tasman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman) - 1644: reconnaisance of the northcoast of New Holland/Australia.
Abraham Cabeliau (http://www.guyana.org/features/guyanastory/chapter8.html) - 1560-1645: maps Venezuela, the three Guyana's and parts of Brazil.
Hendrick Hamel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Hamel) - 1653-1666: shipwrecked on Quelpaert eiland (Cheju-do), captured, after thirteen years, Hamel he managed to escape to Japan.
Simon van der Stel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_van_der_Stel) - 1685: leads an expedition going north from Cape of Good Hope.
Willem de Vlamingh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Vlamingh) - 1696-1697: explored the southwest coast of New Holland/Australia.
Jacob Weyland (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Weyland) - 1705: reconnaissance of the nothern coasts of New-Guinea.
Jacob Roggeveen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Roggeveen) - 1721-1724: sails the Pacific in search of Terra Australis and discovers the Samoa islands and Paaseiland/Easter Island.
Samuel van der Putte (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_van_der_Putte) - 1721-1745: travels over land to India, Tibet and China.



Geographical remains

New Zealand
Tasmania
Mauritius
Ile Amsterdam
Kaap Hoorn/Cape Horn
Paaseiland/Easter island (Chile)
Barentsz Sea
Tasman Sea
Delft island (Ceylon)
Goree (Goeree) island (Senegal)
Oranje river (South-Africa)
Robben island (South-Africa)
Mossel Bay (South-Africa)
Drakensbergen (South-Africa)
Van Diemen Strait (Japan)
Îles de Horne/Hoornse eilanden, Wallis/Fortuna (Pacific)
Cape Maria van Diemen (New Zealand)
Groote Eylant (Australia)
Arnhem land (Australia)
Cape Duyfken (Australia)
Van Diemen Sea (Australia)
Houtman rocks (Australia)
Cape Leeuwin (Australia) Wiki: Australian places with Dutch names list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_places_with_Dutch_names)
Van Rees mountains (New-Guinea)
Schouten islands (New-Guinea)
Vogelkop/Cendrawaish mountain (New-Guinea)
Kaap Vals/Tanjung Vals (New-Guinea)
Muller/Schwaner mountains (Borneo)
New Amsterdam (Guyana)
Jost van Dyke island (British Virgin Islands)
Wilhelmina mountains (Suriname)
Juliana Top mountain (Suriname)
Van Asch-van Wijk mountains (Suriname)
Oranje mountains (Suriname)
Jan Mayen (Norway)
Bear island (Norway)
Spitsbergen/Svalbard (Norway)
Barentsburg - (Spitsbergen/Svalbard - Norway)
Verlegenhuken - (Spitsbergen/Svalbard - Norway)
Heerland - (Spitsbergen/Svalbard - Norway)
Ny Frislant (Spitsbergen/Svalbard - Norway)
Hinlopenstretet - (Spitsbergen/Svalbard - Norway)
City of Bluefields and Bluefield river (Nicaragua)
Blewfields Bay (Jamaica)
Vuurland/Terra del Fuego (Argentina)
Staten eiland/Isla de Los Estdos (Argentina)
Le Maire Strait (Argentina)
Bahia Nassau (Chile)
Isla Barnevelt (Chile)
Wall Street/Wal of Waalstraat (New York City)
Kromme Zee/Gramercy (New York City)
Breukelen/Brooklyn (New York City)
Vlissingen/Flushing (New York City)
Haarlem/Harlem (New YorkCity )
Nieuw Utrecht/New Utrecht (New York City)
Lange Eylant/Long Island (New York City)
Adriaen Blocks Eylant/Block Island (New York)
't Greenwyck/'t Greenwijck - Greenwich (NY State)
Gravesant/Gravesend (NY State)
Boswyck/Bushwick (NY State)
Haverstroo/Haverstraw (NY State)
Heemstede/Hempstead (NY State)
Rood Eylant - Rhode Island
Schuylkill river - (Philadelphia) Wiki: Toponymy of the New Netherlands list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy_of_New_Netherlands)
NB: And the non-geographical but famous word: 'Yankee' derived from Jan-Kees. :)



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Read about: The Raid on Chatham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway)




List of colonies, factories and forts


>x< North-America

(Dutch West India Co. operating area)

Canada
* Jemseq - Nieuw-Brunswijk (Aug. 1674 - Sep. 1674)
* Dutch Arcadia

United States of America
colony Nieuw-Nederland/New Netherlands
* Capital: Nieuw-Amsterdam/New York City (1626-1664/1665-1667)
New York State:
* Fort Nassau (Castle Island)
* Fort Nassau and Fort Oranje (present day Albany) (1615-1661/1673-1674)
* Beverswijck, Beverwijck (Albany): Fort Beverwijck
* Nieuw Amsterdam, Manhattos (New York): Fort Amsterdam
* Rensselaerswijck (Rensselaer)
* Colen Donck, Donck's heer land, Djoncksheerland/The Yonkers
* Nieuw-Utrecht
* Staten eiland/Staten island
* Hastings, Newtown, Misput, Middelburg (Maspeth)
* Wiltwyck, Sopus, Esopus (Kingston)
* Rustdorp/Jamaica
* Heemstede/Hempstead
* Muscoota, Haarlem, Nieuw Haarlem/Harlem
* Gravesand/Gravesend
* Oostdorp, Westchester, Vreedland/Freedland
* Vlissingen/Flushing
* Nieuw-Amersfoort/Flatlands
* Midwout/Flatbush
* Boswijck/Bushwick
* Breukelen/Brooklyn
* Nieuw Dorp/Hurley
Pennsylvania:
* Fort Beversreede (Philadelpia)
* Fort Nya Korsholm
Connecticut:
* Fort Goede Hoop (Hartford): Fort Goede Hoop, Fort Huis ter Hope
Delaware:
* Prinseneiland, Moordenaarseiland (Murderer's Island, Prince's Island): Fort Wilhelmus.
* Altona, Altena (Wilmington): Fort Christina, Fort Altena.
* Blommaerts Kil, Horekil, Whorekill, Hoerenkill: Compagniesfort, Compagniesfort Whorekill.
* Swaenendael/Lewes
Maine:
* Pentagouet: 1674 - Sep. 1674.
New Jersey:
* Fort Nassau (Gloucester)
* Pavonia, Hoboken, Pavonia, Bergen (Jersey City)
* Bommelerweert, Schoon Eylandt, Carrs Island, Juniosa Island, Hooge Eiland (Burlington Island)

Link: Dutch Settlements in New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland_settlements)
New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province on the East Coast of North America of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The capital New Amsterdam (New York), was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on upper New York Bay.The surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British control in 1664 was formalized in 1667, contributing to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. In 1673 the Dutch re-took the area, but later ceded it (in return for Suriname) under the 1674 Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
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>x< Caribbean - Central America

(Dutch West India Co. operating area)

Puerto Rico
* San Juan de Puerto Rico (1625- 2 Nov. 1625 to Spain)

The Dutch occupied only the town and the fort of Canuela in the bay entrance. The fort of Canuela is retaken by the Spanish after three weeks. The Morro Fortress remain in the Spanish hands.

American and British Virgin Islands
* Sint Kruis (Saint Croix) Dutch east part- English west part (1625-1650)
* Thortolleneiland (Tortola): WIC post - sugar (1648-1672)
* Anegada: WIC post (16..-1680)
* Saint Thomas (1657-1666-1672) Dutch capital: Taphuus (Charlotte-Amalie)
* Virgin Gorda (1628-1680): WIC post.
* Anguilla

Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (Dutch West Indies)
* Aruba (1634-1805/1815 >>)
* Curaçao (1634-1805/1815 >>)
* Bonaire (1633-1805/1815 >>)
* Sint Maarten (Ned.)/St. Martin (Fr.) (1620-1633/ 1644-1648 - treaty with the French to split the island - 1816 >>)
* Sint Eustatius (1636 >>)
* Saba (1620s/1640-1816 >>)

The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen, Papiamentu: Antia Hulandes), also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire (ABC Islands), in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten (SSS Islands), in the Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands. Aruba seceded in 1986 as a separate country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the rest of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, with the other islands (BES-islands) joining the Netherlands as "special municipalities", officially public bodies. The name 'Netherlands Antilles' is still sometimes used to indicate the islands which are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Trinidad en Tobago
colony Nieuw-Walcheren/Tobago (1628-1637/1654-1666/1667-1672/1676-1677)

* Fort Nieuw-Vlissingen
* Fort Lampsinsberg
* Fort Beveren
* Fort Fort Bellavista
* Fort Sterreschans

In 1628 a Dutch ship with 68 colonists landed in the island (called by them Nieuw Walcheren). They founded a fort called Fort Flushing near today’s Plymouth. In 1629 and 1632 more ships arrived from Zeeland to strengthen the small Dutch settlement. The history of this first colony had a tragic conclusion on 1 January 1637 when a Spanish expedition destroyed the settlement and massacred the colonists. In September 1654, a Zeelandian expedition under Pieter Becquart founded a settlement at Lampsins Bay on the opposite side of the island. This new settlement was named Nieuw Flushing. The island was divided between the Dutch and the Courlanders. By 1658, 1.200 men peopled the Dutch colony. On 6 December 1677, a new French fleet totaling 21 ships under D’Estrées landed in Tobago. This marked the end of the Dutch attempts to make Tobago a permanent Dutch colony.

Honduras
* Trujillo (15 Jul. 1633-20/21 Jul. 1633 to Spain)
* Baai-eilanden




>x< South-America

(Dutch West India Co. operating area)

Venezuela
* Caracas
* Punta de Araya
* Isla Tortuga (Dutch fort, 1668)
* Unare
* Aves island (Dutch claimed possession as part of the Netherlands Antilles)

Colombia
* Santa Marta (16 Feb. 1630-21/22 Feb. 1630 to Spain)

Dutch Guyana

colony Suriname (1667-1975)
* Capital - Paramaribo
* Fort Zeelandia
* Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam
* Fort Sommelsdijk
* Fort Piet Hein
* Fort Para

First colonization around 1650 by the English. Disputes arose between the Dutch and the English. In 1667, the Dutch decided to keep the nascent plantation colony of Suriname conquered from the English, resulting from the Treaty of Breda. The English were left with New Amsterdam, which later became New York City. Slavery was abolished by the Netherlands in Suriname in 1863, but the slaves in Suriname were not fully released until 1873, after a mandatory 10 year transition period during which time they were required to work on the plantations for minimal pay and without state sanctioned torture. As soon as they became truly free, the slaves largely abandoned the plantations where they had suffered for several generations, in favor of the city, Paramaribo. In 1973, the local government, led by the NPK (a largely Creole, meaning ethnically African or mixed African-European, party) started negotiations with the Dutch government leading towards full independence, which was granted on 25 November 1975.

colony Dutch Guyana(1616-1814)
* Essequibo (1616-1814)
* Berbice (1627-1814)
* Demerara (1752-1814)
* Pomeroon
* Stabroeck (Georgetown - now capital of Guyana):
* Ft. Ter Hooge, Huijs Ter Hooge (Essequibo)
* Ft. Kijkoveral (Essequibo)
* Fort Zeelandia (Essequibo)
* Borsselen Eiland/Borslem Island)
* Ephraim Post (Epira)
* Forteiland, Vlaggeneiland/Flag Island)
* Nieuw Amsterdam 1 (Fort Nassau)
* Nieuw Amsterdam 2, Krabbeneiland/New Amsterdam)
* Aquewayse Post
* Arinda
* Kartabo/Cartabo)
* Cayouni Post
* Concordia Post
* Stevenburg Post, Concordia Post aan Canje River (Concordia Post)
* Hardenbroek Post (Wikkie Kreek Post):
* Huis Nabij
* Post aan Moruka Kreek
* Fort Nassau (Berbice)
* Nieuw Middelburg
* Fort Nova Zelandia
* Redoute Samson (Brandwacht)
* Savonette
* Fort St. Andries
* Post aan de Wironje Kreek (Post aan de Wiruni Creek)
* Redoute bij Wironje Kreek

Although Christopher Columbus sighted Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498), the Dutch were the first to establish colonies: Essequibo (1616), Berbice (1627), and Demerara (1752). The British assumed control in the late 18th century, and the Dutch formally ceded the area in 1814.

Guyana (French-Guyana) (1660-1664 en 1676)
* Fort Ceperou, S. Louis, Fort Cayenne (Cayenne)
* Post at the Aprowaco, Post at the Aprouak
* Post at the Wacogenive rivier
* Mecoria Island
* Post at the Wiapoco, Post at the Oyapoc, Post at the Oiapoque (Wiapoco)

Brazil
colony Dutch Brazil (1624-1654)
* capital: Mauritsstad: (Fort Ernestus, Fort Ernest, Fort Altena, Fort Waerdenburgh, Fort Driehoek)
* Recife: (Fort Bruyn/Fort do Brun, Fort Buraco, Fort S. Antonio do Buraco)
* Frederiksstad
* Boavista (Forte Cinco Pontas, Fort Vijfhoek, Fort Frederik Hendrik)
* Fort Ghijsselingh
* Itamaracà island, Tamaraca, Tamarica (Itamaracà): Fort Oranje
* Schoppestad, Van Schoppe stad, Nossa Senhora da Conceicao (Vila Velha)
* Fortaleza: Fort Schoonenburg, Fort Siara
* Fort Waerdemburgh
* Fort Ceulen/Reis Magos
* Sao Salvador da Bahia (10 May 1624-30 Apr. 1625 to Portugal)

Amazonas settlements (Amazone Delta):
* Fort Nassau
* Fort Oranje

Half of the Portuguese capitanias were taken. Bad policy and lack of vision by the Dutch West India Company after 40 years of Dutch rule eventually led to reinstatement of Portuguese rule.

Chile
* Castro
* Valdivia
* Chiloë - 1643: Attempt to conquer the island and take it from the Spanish failed.





>x< Africa

(Dutch East and West India Co. operating area)

Mauritania
* Arguin (1633-1678/1724-1728)

Sierra Leone
* Tasso island (1664)

Liberia
* Kaap Mount
* Senegambia

Senegal
* Portudal
* Rufisque
* Joal
* colony Goree/Goeree island (Goede Reede) (1617-1663 / 1664-1677)

Goldcoast

colony Dutch Goldcoast/Ghana (1598-1871)
* capital: Elmina (1635-1871)
* Fort Amsterdam (Ghana) (near Cormantin) (1665–1721/1785-1867 treaty with Engeland)
* Fort Apollonia (16..-1768 / 1868-1872) (Cape Apollonia (Benyin))
* Fort Batenstein (near Butri)(1656-1665/166..-1872)
* Cape Coast Castle
* Cabo Corço or Oguaa (Swedish name: Carolusborg of Carlsborg) (16 april 1659- May 1659/22 Apr. 1663 - 3 May 1664
* Fort Conraadsburg, Fort de Veer (1810/1811), **Fort Naglas (1828), Fort Java (1828), Fort Scomarus (1828), Fort **Batenstein (1828). (28/9 Aug. 1637 - 6 april 1872)
* Fort Crêvecoeur (Ussher Town (Accra)) (1649-1782/1786-1868)
* Fort Elise Carthago (1650)
* Fort Goede Hoop, (1667 or 1705/06 fort–1782/1785-1867/68)
* Fort Hollandia(Poquefoe/Pokesu (Princess Town)) 1725 fort-1814/1818. 1687* - 1698/1711–1712/1732-1804 abandoned.
* Fort bij Kpone: (1697 - Apr. 1700 / 1706-..)
* Fort Leydsaamheyd (Fort Patience, near Apam) (1697/1698–1782/1785-1868)
* Fort Metaal Kruis, near Dixcove (1868-1872)
* Fort Nassau, near Mouri (16240 (1598 of 1611/12 – 1664/1665 – 1782/1785 - 1867 by treaty with Engeland)
* Fort Oranje, near Sekondi (1640 of 1670/75-1872)
* Fort Ruychaver (Jul./Aug. 1654-1659)
* Fort Santo Antonio de Axim (Feb. 1642–1664/1665–1872)
* Fort Elmina (capital)
* Fort San Sebastian, near Shama (1637-1664/1664–1872)
* Fort Singelenburgh, near Keta (..-1737)
* Fort Vredenburgh, near Komenda (1688 fort–1782/1785–1872)
* Fort Witsenn, near Takoradi
* Sekondi (1782–1785)
* Fort Komenda (1868-1872)
* Cong/Cong-hights: -1659.
* Anomabu (1640-1652)
* Egya: (1647-../1663-1664)
* Kumase (1837-1842/1848-1853/1859-1869)
* Petit Popo of Popo (Anecho/Aneho) (1731-1760)

Togo
* Klein-Popo (1731-1760)

Benin
* Groot Popo (1680-..)
* Ouidah (1670s. or 1687/1702-1724 or 1726)
* Jaquim of Jakri (Godomey) Fort Zeelandia (1726–1734)
* Offra (1675-1691)
* Appa or Ardra (1732-1736)
* Save (1660-..)
* Allada (1660-..)

Nigeria
* Benin (1705-1736)
* Badagri (1737-1748)
* Epe (1732-1755)

Annobon (1641-../..-1778 Portuguese, 1778-1968 Spanish)

Sint Helena (1645-1659)

Sao Tomé and Principe
* Sao Tomé (1641-1648)
* Principe (island) (1589)

Equatorial-Guinea
*Corisco island (mandj): Factory (1642-1648 and 1680)

Congo
* Loango (Boary) WIC trading post in ivory and copper (1648-1686 and 1721-1726)
* Ngoyo or G'oy

Gabon
* Mayumba (Majombo - Nyanga provice): factory

Angola
* São Paulo de Luanda (Luanda) - Fort Aardenburgh (26 Aug. 1641-21/24 Aug. 1648)
* Sao Felipe de Benguela: (Sept. 1641-1648)
* Pinda of Mpinda (Soyo): factory (1641-1648)
* Cambamba (Ensandeira island) - Fort Mols (1643-1648)
* Malemba (Malembo) (1641-1648)
* Cabinda (1641-1648)


colony Kaapkolonie/South-Africa (1652-1802)
* Kaapstad (Cape Town) - capital established in 1652.
* Fort de Goede Hoop (built in 1633)
* Stellenbosch
* Swellendam
* Graaf-Reynet
* Paarl
In 1647, a Dutch vessel was wrecked in the present-day Table Bay at Cape Town. The marooned crew, the first Europeans to attempt settlement in the area, built a fort and stayed for a year until they were rescued. Shortly thereafter, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) decided to establish a permanent settlement. The VOC, had no intention of colonising the area, instead wanting only to establish a secure base camp where passing ships could shelter, and where hungry sailors could stock up on fresh supplies of meat, fruit, and vegetables. To this end, a small VOC expedition under the command of Jan van Riebeeck reached Table Bay on 6 April 1652. The British seized the Cape in 1795 to prevent it from falling into the hands of Napoleonic France, then briefly relinquished it back to the Dutch (1803), before definitively conquering it in 1806. British sovereignty of the area was recognised at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Around 1800, the Dutch colony was 145.000 km2 and had 18.000 inhabitants.

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Namibia
* Walvisbaai and other areas (1793)

Mozambique
*Delagoa Bay: Fort Lydsaamheid (1721-1730)

Madagascar
* Antongilbaai
* Fort Dauphin

Réunion

colony Mauritius (1638-1658 /1664-1710)
* Fort Frederik Hendrik

Portuguese sailors first visited it in 1507 and established a visiting base leaving the island uninhabited. Five ships of the Dutch Second Fleet were blown off course during a cyclone while on their way to the Spice Islands and landed on the island in 1598, naming it in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Stadtholder of the Netherlands. In 1638, the Dutch established the first permanent settlement. Because of tough climatic conditions including cyclones and the deterioration of the settlement, the Dutch abandoned the island after nearly a century in 1710. When it was discovered, the island of Mauritius was the home of a previously unknown species of bird, which the Portuguese named the dodo, as they appeared to be not too bright. By 1681, all dodos had been killed by the settlers or by their domesticated animals. An alternate theory suggests that the imported wild boars that were set free destroyed the slow-breeding dodo population.

Comoren
* Nzwani

Nieuw-Amsterdam island/Île Amsterdam

This island was discovered by the Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano on March 18, 1522, along his first world circumnavigation. Elcano did not name the island, however. Having found the island unnamed, the Dutch captain Anthonie van Diemen named it Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch for New Amsterdam) after his ship in 1633.

Île St. Paul
The first detailed description of it (and possibly the first landing) was by Willem de Vlamingh in 1696.



>x< Asia

(Dutch East India Co. operating area)

Yemen
* Mokka (1620-1757)
* Aden (1614-1620)
* Sihiri

Oman
* Muskate (1674)

Iraq
* Basra (1645-1646 / 1651-..)

Iran (Persia)
* Isfahan (of Ispahan): trading post (1623-1747)
* Bandar Abbas (of Gamron): trading post (1623-1766)
* Kharg: Fort Mosselstein (1750-1766)
* Band-e Kong (1665-1753)
* Boesjir
* Lar (caravan-stop between Isfahan and Bandar Abbas)
* Kismus
* Kerman (trading post)
* Sjiraas (trading post)

Pakistan
* Sindi (1652-1660)

India

Dutch India 1605–1825

colony * Suratte 1616-1795
* Agra. (1621-1720)
* Burhanpur
* Ahmadabad (1617-1744)
* Bharuch
* Vengurla (1637-1685)

Malabar (Southwest coast of India)
* Cranganore of Cranganor (Kodungallor) (1662)
* Cochin de Cima (Pallipuram) (1661)
* Cochin, Cochin de Baixo or Santa Cruz (1663)
* Quilon (Coylan) (1661)
* Cannanore (1663-1790)
* Kundapura (1667-1682)
* Kayankulam (ca. 1645)
* Ponnani (ca. 1663)

Coromandel (Eastcoast of India)
* Golkonda (1662-1733)
colony * Bimilipatnam, (1687-1795/ 1818-1825)
colony * Jaggernaikpoeram (now Kakinada) (1734 –1795/1818-1825)
* Daatzeram (now Drakshawarama) (1633-1730)
* Nagelwanze (1669-1687)
colony * Palikol (1613-1781/ 1785-1795/1818-1825)
* Masulipatnam (1605-1756)
* Petapoeli (Nizampatnam) (1606-1668)
colony * Paliacatta (now Pulicat) (1610-1781/1785-1795/1805-1825)
colony * Sadras (1654-1757/1785-1795/1818-1825)
* Tierepopelier (now Thiruppapuliyur) (1608-1625)
* Tegenapatnam, Kudalur (now Cuddalore) (1647-1758)
colony * Porto Novo (now Parangippettai) (1608-1825)
* Negapatnam (1658-1781)
* Malediven - Tuticorin of Tutucorim (1658)
* Travancore

colony * Hougli/Chinsura (1656-1814)

In 1656 the Dutch East India Company erected a factory on the site of the town, on a healthy spot of ground, much preferable to that on which Kolkata (Calcutta) is situated. At that point Kolkata was the principal Dutch settlement in Bengal (although not known by the name) used as a base for the Dutch intra-asian opium trade. In 1795, during the Napoleonic wars, the settlement was occupied by a British garrison. At the peace of 1814 it was restored to the Dutch. It was among the cessions in India made by the king of the Netherlands in 1825 in exchange for the British possessions in Sumatra.
** Map of Dutch India ** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_India)
Bangladesh (Bengalen)
* Pipely (1635-..)
* Baleshwar/Bellasoor, (1676-..)
* Murshidabad
* Dhaka

Maldives (1645-1796)

In the mid-seventeenth century, the Dutch, who had replaced the Portuguese as the dominant power in Ceylon, established hegemony over Maldivian affairs without involving themselves directly in local matters, which were governed according to centuries-old Islamic customs.
colony Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (1658-1796)

The king of Kandy Rajasinghe II made a treaty with the Dutch in 1638 to get rid of the Portuguese who ruled most of the coastal area of the island. In 1638 the Dutch attacked in earnest but ended with an agreement (which was disrespected by both parties), and not until 1656 that Colombo fell. By 1660 the Dutch controlled the whole island except the kingdom of Kandy. A mixed Dutch-Sinhalese people known as Burgher peoples are the legacy of Dutch rule. During the Napoleonic Wars Great Britain, fearing that French control of The Netherlands might deliver Sri Lanka to the French, occupied the coastal areas of the island (which they called Ceylon) with little difficulty in 1796. In 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens the Dutch part of the island was formally ceded to Britain, and became a crown colony.
* Fort Galle (Barstions: Zon, Maan, Ster, Zwart) - Before the Dutch took Colombo from the Portuguese, Galle was their headquarters.
* Fort Batticaloa (1638)
* Fort Frederik
* Fort Ostenburg
* Fort Matara - Redoute Van Eck (built from 1763-1765)
* Fort Tangalle
* Fort Hammenhiel
* Fort Pooneryn (1770)
Link: Dutch forts in SriLanka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forts_of_Sri_Lanka)
Link: Dutch street names Colombo (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/road.html)
Birma
* Baungdwet, Baung Dwet (Bandel) Arakan (Mrauk-U): trading office ca.1608-1631 1634- ?.
* Arakan (Mandalay): 1625-1665
* Siriam, Siriangh (Syriam): trading office 1635-1679
* Ava: trading office (ca. 1635-1679)
* Pegu: trading office.
* Martavaan/Martaban:trading office 1660-..)
* Arakan: trading office 1625-1665)

Thailand (Siam)
* Ayutthaya: factory (1613-1767)
* Patani/Pattani (1602-1623)
* Singora/Songkhla (1607-1623)
* Ligor/Ligoor- Nakhon Si Thammarat (..-1756)
* Oedjang Salang/Phuket
* Bangkok: factory - warehouse 'Amsterdam'.

Cambodia
* Ponomping (Phnom Penh)
* Laauweck/Lawek

Malaysia
* colony Malakka (Malay peninsula)
* Koela Linggi/Kuala Linggi: Fort Philippina.
* Salangoor/Kuala Selangor: Fort Altingburg, Fort Utrecht.

In 1641 the Dutch defeated the Portuguese to capture Malacca with the help of the Sultan of Johore. The Dutch ruled Malacca from 1641 to 1798 but they were not interested in developing it as a trading centre, placing greater importance to Batavia (Jakarta) in Indonesia as their administrative centre. However they still left impressive architectural heritage and one can still find many people from Dutch descendance. Malacca was ceded to the British in the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 in exchange for Bencoolen on Sumatra.

Singapore
The Dutch East India Co controlled the Sultan of Johor - who controlled the island of Singapore

Indonesia
colony Dutch East Indies (Nederlands Oost-Indië)/Indonesia. From 1602 - December 27, 1949* 1968*[/B]
* Capital: Batavia/Jakarta (1619-1963)
* Surabaya
* Bandung
* Yogjakarta
* Malang
* Semarang
* Tegal
* Cheribon
* Makassar (Celebes)
* Medan (Sumatra)
* Padang (Sumatra)
* Palembang (Sumatra)
* Pontianak (Borneo)
* Banjarmasin (Borneo)
The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, was the Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia. During the 19th century, Dutch possessions in the archipelago and its hegemony were expanded, reaching their greatest extent in the early 20th century. Traditional rulers who survived the colonial military conquests were installed as regents and indigenous aristocracy became an indigenous civil service. They were placed under a Dutch hierarchy of Dutch officials; the Residents, the Assistant Residents, and District Officers. This indirect rule did not disturb the peasantry and was cost-effective for the Dutch; in 1900, only 250 European and 1,500 indigenous civil servants, and 16,000 Dutch officers and men and 26,000 hired native troops, were required to rule 35 million colonial subjects. From 1910, the Dutch created the most centralised state power in Southeast Asian history with the capital in Batavia (modern-day Jakarta).

colony Netherlands New-Guinea (1882-1969)
* Capital: Hollandia, now Jayapura (1952-1963)

(Netherlands New Guinea refers to the West Papua region while it was an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1969. Until 1949 it was a part of the Netherlands Indies. It was commonly known as Dutch New Guinea. It is currently Indonesia's province Irian Jaya). The Netherlands retained New Guinea when Indonesia became independent in 1949. The arguments of the Dutch government for this changed repeatedly over time. Starting in 1962, under pressure from the international community and under threat of armed conflict with Indonesia, the Netherlands relinquished control and a series of events led to the eventual official annexation of New Guinea in 1969 to Indonesia.




>x< East-Asia

(Dutch East India Co. operating area)

Vietnam (Tonkin/Annam)
* Ke-cho (Hanoi): trading office (1636-1699)
* Faifo, Pheypho (Hoi An): 1636-1741.
China
* Kwantoeng, Canton (Guangzhou, Kanton): trading office (1749-1803)
* Whampoa (Huangpu): warehouse (ca. 1728-..)
* Hockzieuw, Hoksieu (Fuzhou): trading office (..-1681)
* Xiamen
* Hainan
* Macau
Pescadores islands (1620-1624)
After the attempt to conquer Macao in 1622, the Dutch settled in the Pescadores islands (building a fort in Makung) between Formosa and China. In 1624 a Chinese attack compelled them to move on nearby Formosa.
colony Formosa/Taiwan (1624-1662)
* Fort Zeelandia
* Saccam: Fort Provintia, Fort de Provintieën
In 1624, the Dutch established a commercial base on Taiwan and began to import workers from Fujian and Penghu (Pescadores) as laborers, many of whom settled. They made Taiwan a colony with its colonial capital at Tayoan City (present day Anping, Tainan). The military presence was concentrated at a stronghold called Castle Zeelandia. Chinese naval and troop forces of Southern Fujian defeated the Dutch in 1662, subsequently expelling the Dutch government and military from the island after they ruled for 38 years.
Japan:
* trade monopoly Deshima, Decima (Nagasaki): (1641-1857)
* trade monopoly Firando (Hirado): (trading office, 1609-1641)




>x< Oceania

(Dutch East India Co. operating area)

discovered in 1606 * Nieuw-Holland/Australia - Capt. Willem Janzoon on the Duyfken; First European to set foot on Australian soil.

discovered in 1616 * Tonga islands - Capt. Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire.
The Tongan people first encountered Europeans in 1616 when the Dutch vessel Eendracht made a short visit to the islands to trade - with Dutch explorers Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire (who called on the northern island of Niuatoputapu) and in 1643 with Abel Tasman (who visited Tongatapu and Ha'apai).
discovered in 1642 * Tasmanië/Tasmania - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman - named it 'Van Diemensland', later the English named it after him.

discovered in 1642 * Nieuw-Zeeland/New-Zealand - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman - no futher colonization but temporary settlement.

discovered in 1643 * Fiji - Capt. Abel Jansz. Tasman.

discovered in 1722 * Paaseiland/Easter Island - Capt. Jacob Roggeveen on 5 april (Easter sunday)

discovered in 1722 * Samoa - Capt. Jacob Roggeveen.




>x< Europe

Norway
discovered in 1596 * Spitsbergen/Svalbard - whaling colony with many settlements.

Willem Barentsz made the first indisputable discovery of Spitsbergen/Svalbard in 1596, in an attempt to find the Northern Sea Route. From 1611, Spitsbergen became a base for whaling. Smeerenburg was one of the first settlements, established by the Dutch in 1619. Smaller bases were also built by the English, Danish and French. At first the outposts were merely summer camps, but from the early 1630s, a few individuals started to overwinter. Whaling at Spitsbergen lasted until the 1820s, when the Dutch, British and Danish whalers moved elsewhere in the Arctic.
discovered in 1596 * Bear island/Bjørnøya - discovered by the Dutch explorers Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk on 10 June 1596.

discovered in 1607 * Jan Mayen
In January the Noordsche Compagnie (Northern Company), modelled on the Dutch East India Company, had been established to support Dutch whaling in the Arctic. Two of its ships reached Jan Mayen in July 1614. The captains of these ships—Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath (Golden Cat) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom (Orange Tree) —named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island. But later it was named after the captain. Jan Mayen first appeared on Willem Jansz Blaeu’s 1620 edition map of Europe, originally published by Cornelis Doedz in 1606. He named it Jan Mayen after captain Jan Jacobszoon May of the Amsterdam-financed Gouden Cath, perhaps because he[who?] was by that time based in Amsterdam.

Russia
explored in 1594 * Nova Zembla
Explorer Willem Barents reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya in 1594 (and gave it it's name) and in a subsequent expedition of 1596.
discovered in 1643 * Sachalin (Capt. Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries - first European to make an account)

discovered in 1643 * Koerillen/Kuriles (Capt. Maarten Gerritszoon de Vries - first European to make an account)
In the summer of 1643, the ship Castricum sailed by the southern Kuril Islands, visiting Kunashir, Iturup (named 'Staten Island', and Urup, which they named 'Company Island' and claimed it for the Dutch Republic. The ship passed between the islands of Iturup and Urup, the strait between the islands being later named 'De Vries Strait' after its discoverer, and entered the Sea of Okhotsk.

Belgium (1815-1830) - In this period Belgium was incorporated in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.





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Tropical Palaces



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Buitenzorg Palace (1744)

Buitenzorg/Bogor - Indonesia


The original palace was built in 1744 as a country retreat for the Dutch Governors. This building was substantially damaged by an earthquake in 1834, triggered by the volcanic eruption of Mount Salak. The palace was rebuilt into its present form in 1856 - this time with only one story instead of the original three, as a precaution against further earthquakes. Till 1942, Buitenzorg Palace served as the official residence of the Dutch Governors-General. After the Indonesian independence, the palace was used by President Sukarno, but then largely neglected by Suharto when he came to office. The grounds of the estate contain several buildings - the largest of which is the main palace and its two wings.

The Palace is surrounded by the largest and most famous botanical gardens of South-East Asia. An area of 284,000 square metres (28.4 hectares). The garden was built by Governor-General Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff. The extensive grounds of the presidential palace were later converted into a botanical garden by the German-born Dutch botanist, Professor Casper George Carl Reinwardt. The gardens officially opened in 1817 as 's Lands Plantentuin ('National Botanical Garden') and were used to research and develop plants and seeds from other parts of the Indonesian archipelago for cultivation during the 19th century. This is a tradition that continues today and contributes to the garden's reputation as a major center for botanical research.Today the garden contains more than 15,000 species of trees and plants located among streams and lotus ponds. There are 400 types of exceptional palms to be found along the extensive lawns and avenues, helping the gardens create a refuge for more than 50 different varieties of birds and for groups of bats roosting high in the trees.


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Weltevreden Palace (1796)

Batavia/Jakarta - Indonesia

Istana Merdeka is a palace complex in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. At first there was only one building in this complex, the Istana Negara. The Istana Negara was originally built as the residence for a Dutch businessman, J. A. van Braam. Rijswijk and Molenvliet (presently known as Harmonie), the location chosen as the time was the most exclusive neighborhood in Weltevreden area, the New Batavia. During its early years, only the State Palace stood in this complex. The State Palace was built in 1796 facing north toward Ciliwung river bank, during the era of Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, and completed in 1804.

The government used this building as the center of all administration and as the official residence of the Governor-General during a stay in Batavia, in occasion of events such as the Indies Council Meeting held every Wednesday. The Governor-Generals preferred to live in Bogor Palace in Bogor, due to the cooler and more adaptable temperatures in the hillsides of Bogor. The mansion of van Braam was bought due because of a need for the Dutch government to centralize power. However, Daendels Palace (currently Ministry of Finance) in Lapangan Banteng (formerly known as Waterloo Square) was not completed yet.

Upon the completion of Daendels Palace, plans to centralize power changed, and the mansion of van Braam officially became the residency of the governor-general, and Daendels Palace housed administrative buildings. Hotel van den Gouverneur-Generaal (Hotel of the Governor-General) became the official name of the van Braam mansion. During the Colonial era, important events took place in this building. Some of which include the declaration of the cultuur stensel system by the Governor Graaf van den Bosch, and the ratification ceremony of the Lingarjati Treaty on March 25, 1947.

During mid-19th century, the palace does not suffice the accommodation of its administrative purposes, and under orders from J.W. van Lansberge, a new building that today become the Merdeka Palace was built within the complex in 1873 during the Governor General Loudon administration, and finished in 1879 during Governor General Johan Willem van Landsberge administration. This neoclasical building, designed by Drossares, was built in southern part of the complex directly facing Koningsplein (now Merdeka Square). The new Governor General palace at Koningsplein was also known as Istana Gambir (Gambir Palace).

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Daendels Palace (1809)

Weltevreden/Jakarta, Indonesia


Construction of this architectural gem was commissioned by Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels. As a governor general, Daendels stimulated the move southwards of Batavia; the densely populated walled city was unhealthy and many inhabitants suffered from malaria and cholera. The area of Weltevreden, several kilometres south of Batavia, originally a country estate, was developed and would turn into a highly fashionable area. Halfway Batavia and Weltevreden, the new accommodation for the club Harmonie was constructed.

In Weltevreden, on the Paradeplaats, a new Government House was erected; since Daendels did not wish to inhabit the old country estate (known as the Van der Parra estate), officially assigned to the governors general. The Government House is a building constructed in the period 1809-1827 in Batavia, ‘capital’ of the Dutch colony in the East-Indies. Construction was ordered by governor general H.W. Daendels (1808-1811) and completed by governor general L.P.J. du Bus de Ghisignies (1826-1830).

The building has been preserved and is located on present Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta Pusat, which was known in the nineteenth century as Paradeplaats and since 1828 as Waterlooplein. Modelled in the Empire style, the proportionate Witte Huis (White House) measures 160 meters lengthwise. The pillars on the first story are Doric, whereas those on the second level are Ionic in style. In the past, the building hosted many state functions and even served as a post office, a printing office and a high court. Today, it houses the Indonesian Ministry of Finance.

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Willemstad

Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

Palace of the Governor built in 1700, expanded in 1765 and still in service for the Governor of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.


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Paramaribo

Suriname

This palace of the Governor General, now presidential palace, was built in its recent form in 1730 by governor-generaal De Cheusses. It's surrounded by a palm-garden.


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Stadhuys Malacca

Malacca, Malaysia

The most imposing relic of the Dutch period in Melaka is the massive red town hall and governors' residence, built between 1641 and 1660. It displays all the typical features of Dutch colonial architecture. Today the Stadthuys houses the musty but informative History and Ethnography Museum. The first governor appointed to Malacca was Jan van Twist and the Dutch began building the Stadthuys to serve as the residency for the new governor as well as an administration centre and town hall. The Stadthuys was raised on the very same spot where the Portuguese governor’s house had been, which was too badly damaged to be of any use to the Dutch. Its construction was carried out by skilled Javanese and Chinese craftsmen. The Stadthuys of Malacca is a reproduction of the former Stadhuis (town hall) of the Dutch town of Hoorn. However, the former Stadhuis of Hoorn only existed from 1420 until 1796. - Read more (http://www.hollandfocus.com/v2/index.php/magazine/contributors/dennisdewitt/99-dennisdewitt/111-ddwstadthuys)

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The Governor's Museum, also known as Muzium Yang Di-Pertua Negeri or Muzium Tuan Yang Terutama, is one of the many museums in Malacca. Formerly called Seri Melaka, the museum is housed in the former official residence and office of the Dutch Governor of Malacca on St Paul's Hill. The building was used as the official residence of the Tuan Yang Terutama, which is the title of the governor, until September 1996. The museum showcases the personal belongings of the various governors of Malacca since independence, beginning with the first Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh.


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Cochin

Kerala, India

Bolgatty Palace built by the Dutch in India, Bolgatty Palace is located in the scenic island popularly known as Bolgatty island in Kochi, Kerala. Built in 1744 and was later extended and lush green gardens were landscaped around it. The building was then the Governor's palace for the Dutch and later to the British.


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[B]Colombo

Sri-Lanka (Ceylon)

Built during the second half of the 17th century as the residence of Count August van Ranzow, the Dutch East India Company's governor in Colombo, this attractive old building at 95 Prince Street is one of the few surviving remnants of Colombo's Dutch colonial heritage - now Sri Lanka Dutch Era Museum.


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Galle (1684)

Sri Lanka/Ceylon


This building was built in 1684 for Dutch governors; more likely it housed both the garrison officers and the VOC Commandeur, as by this date the Dutch seat of government had shifted from Galle to Colombo, finally captured from the Portuguese in 1656. In 1684, the Commandeur of Galle was one Nicolaas van der Meulen. The lower billiard room of what is now the New Oriental Hotel (NOH) - now sadly damp and crumbling - bears the date 1686. Galle was always a major Dutch military base: in 1695 Christopher Langhan stated that "generally a garrison of 200 men is stationed here".

By as early as 1667, as a transhipment port Galle had become second only to Batavia on Java as the VOC's main commercial centre in its Asian dominions. Directly adjoining the NOH to the north on its Church Street side is the single-storied former Dutch Commissariat store, a relatively modest structure built circa 1656 and since 1986 the home of the Dutch Museum. Like the multi-cultural Dutch colonial society that created them, the NOH and other surviving VOC-era buildings in Galle Fort are not really typical Dutch, but rather combine a mix of Dutch/European and Asiatic influences. A classic example of this architectural ambivalence is the Grote Kerk, the Dutch Reformed Church, standing just south of the NOH on the other side of Middle Street, which was completed in 1754.

Read more: Preserving the Spirit of a Forgotten World -Anecdotal glimpses of the New Oriental Hotel, Galle Fort by J. Simpson (http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1903&start=0)


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Kaapstad/Capetown

Zuid Afrika/South-Africa

Palace of the Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company in the Cape Colony/South-Africa, built in 1700. The building was renovated and enlarged numerous times until 1751 when it was first recorded that the building was being used as a summer residence by the Governor, a custom which the historical record seems to bear out for all the Dutch Governors that century. By 1790 the building was known as The Governor's House in the Company's Gardens ('Het Governiurs Huys in de Compagnies Tuyn') and by this time - as reflected in the drawings of Josephus Jones circa 1790 - the gardens side of the building already had its rococo balusters with its stucco drapes and Greco-roman sculptures. From a design perspective, the building, incorporating both Louis XVI-style Neo-classicism and Baroque elements, was influenced by 18th Century Dutch and Dutch East Indies architecture of the time. Similar facades, windows, doors and fanlights can be seen in Colonial buildings built in the same period in places such as Amsterdam and Batavia (modern-day Jakarta).

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Willemstad

Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

1634-1805/1815 - today part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands



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Palace of the Governor

The palace is on the same spot where the first fort was built in 1635. In the subsequent two years, the first dwelling of the representative of the West India Company, the Director, was added to it. This precursor of the Government’s Palace was a two-storied wooden building, for which most of the material had been brought from Amsterdam. Not much later, the wooden building was replaced by a stone residence which forms the core of the present Palace. In 1765, the extension took place with an open gallery on the harbor side and the building remained in this state for approximately a hundred years

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Fort Amsterdam

Strategically built on the point (Punda) of the eastern finger of land at the harbor entrance. Fort Amsterdam was named after the Chamber of Amsterdam, a department of the Netherlands West Indies Co, which was in charge of the administration of Curaçao. This fort was built in 1635. Fort Amsterdam was the most important of Curaçao's eight forts, and is included in UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites. Embedded in its southwest wall is a cannonball fired by Captain Bligh's troops. Today the complex houses the Governor's residence, the Ministry, several government offices, and the United Protestant Church, which includes a museum.

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Penha building

Built in 1708, surrounded by Heerenstraat, Breedestraat and Handelskade, with the ridge perpendicular to Breedestraat. Three storeys with roof, covered with red pantiles. The "Penha" Building is a typical example of Iberian influences in basically Dutch architecture. The building is heavily decorated and the top gables are an abundant interpretation of the Dutch bell-gable. The building is restored in 1956

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The Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת מקווה ישראל-עמנואל‎), in Willemstad, Curaçao, is the oldest synagogue in the Americas. It is commonly known as the Snoa (short for esnoga, an old Portuguese word for synagogue). The community (congregation Mikvé Israel) dates from the 1650s, and consisted of Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Netherlands and Brazil. In the nineteenth century there was a breakaway Reform community (Emanu El); the two merged to form the present community in 1964. The community is now affiliated to Reconstructionist Judaism. The first synagogue building was purchased in 1674; the current building dates from 1730. The other Netherlands Antilles island with a historical synagogue is Sint Eustatius, where the ruins of the Honen Dalim synagogue of 1739 still stand impressively on the 'Synagoge Pad.'


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Founded in 1752, Otrabanda's Basilica Santa Ana was elevated to basilica and co-cathedral status by Pope Paul VI in 1975. The basilica also served as a pro-cathedral between 1843 and 1958.


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Cape Dutch architecture

Zuid-Afrika / South Africa

Originally posted by: @Stellenbosch


Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style found in the Western Cape of South Africa. The style was prominent in the early days (17th century) of the Cape Colony, and the name derives from the fact that the initial settlers of the Cape were primarily Dutch. The style has roots in mediaeval Holland, Germany, France and Indonesia.

Houses in this style have a distinctive and recognisable design, with a prominent feature being the grand, ornately rounded gables, reminiscent of features in townhouses of Amsterdam built in the Dutch style. The houses are also usually H-shaped, with the front section of the house usually being flanked by two wings running perpendicular to it. Furthermore, walls are whitewashed, and the roofs are thatched.

Most Cape Dutch buildings in Cape Town have been lost to new developments — particularly to high-rises in the City Bowl during the 1960s. However, the Cape Dutch tradition can still be seen in many of the farmhouses of the Wine Route, and historical towns such as Stellenbosch, Swellendam, Tulbagh and Graaff-Reinet.


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Built in 1847 and situated on the main road running through the town. This valley tightly hemmed in by mountains, is named after the French Huguenots who fled to the Cape after religious persecution in 1688. They brought with them a sound knowledge of viniculture and settled down to make wine in the ‘French Glen’ where the estates and many families still have French names. There is just one main street lined with wine estates and a few antique shops, cafes and restaurants until at the end you find the impressive Huguenot Memorial and Museum set in rose gardens by a peaceful lily pond.


Paarl

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Stellenbosch

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Perfect example of Cape Dutch architecture. This was the first wine estate to be established at the Cape.

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Batavia/Jakarta

Java, Indonesia

Capital of the Dutch East Indies from 1619-1949 (330 years)



In 1610, the Dutch East India Co was granted permission to build a trading post on Java island, close to the javanese city of Jayakatra. After a conflict with the local powers, Jan Pietersz. Coen founded the city of Batavia in 1619. He built the city on the ruins of the destroyed city of Jayakatra. Long before Calcutta or Singapore were developed, this city was one of the largest and weathiest cities in the East. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city inhabited 50.000 people. In the second half of the 19th centuty, the city had 100.000 inhabitaints and at the end of the Dutch colonial rule in 1950, the city had 1 million inhabitants.


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Former City Hall of Batavia, known in the past as Stadhuis. This building was the administrative headquarters of the Dutch East India Company, and later of the Dutch Colonial Government. The current building was constructed in 1707 by the city government, replacing the former city hall built in 1627. Governor General Abraham van Riebeeck inaugurated it in 1710.

The building contains 37 ornate rooms. There are also some cells located beneath the front portico which were used as dungeons. A Javanese freedom fighter Prince Diponegoro, who was arrested, was imprisoned here in 1830 before being banished to Manado, North Sulawesi. Another freedom fighter earlier imprisoned here around 1670 was Untung Suropati from East Java. The building is located in front of a public square, which in the past was known as Stadhuisplein, the City Hall Square. The square is now known as Fatahillah Square (Indonesian: Taman Fatahillah). In the center of the square is a fountain which was used as a water supply during colonial era. The square was also used as the place of executions. In 1970, the Fatahillah Square was declared a Cultural Heritage. The Jakarta History Museum was inaugurated on March 30, 1974 as the center for collection, conservation and research for all kinds of objects of cultural heritage related to the history of the City of Jakarta.


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Built from 1835-1839. Protestant church (now Lutheran)


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On March 7, 1809, Governor-General Daendels chose the eastern side of the Paradeplaats of the Waterlooplein (now Jalan Lapangan Banteng Timur) as the site for his new palace. Never modest in his ambitions, Daendels undoubtedly envisaged building a grand palace that would be at the heart of the new Batavia he dreamed of creating. He instructed Lieutenant-Colonel J.C.Schultze (who had also designed the Harmonie Society Clubhouse (HSC)) to prepare the plans.

The design called for a large central main building with wings on either side. The Palace would be for the exclusive use of the governor-general. Government bureaus were to be in separate buildings and there would also be guest houses and a stable for 120 horses. Work proceeded quickly and foundations for the palace were built from the old materials of the demolished castle. By 1811, when Daendels was replaced as governor-general by Jan Willem Janssens (governor-general 1811), the main building and the wings were half finished.

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Cathedral I is situated at Weltervreden and baptized at February 1810. In 1826, this church was burned into ashes. Then Cathedral II was established on February 1830. In 1882, added two towers in the front of the church. But again, the beautiful church became ruins on May 1890. In 1891, a new church was built. On April 21, 1901 the church was officially opened.


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Built by Cuypers en Hulswit, built in 1909 - The Amsterdam architect Eduard Cuypers, a younger nephew of Piere Cuypers, was the founder and name giver of the most successful commercial architectural office in the first decades of the twentieth century.

It was the director of the board of the Javasche Bank (later Bank Indonesia) who asked him to travel to the Indies in 1909 and he convinced him to establish a second office in Batavia. Eduard Cuypers was asked by the Bank for the design of several bank buildings. Eduard Cuypers lived and stayed in Amsterdam and in Batavia office he associated him self with Marius Hulswit and in 1910 the technical engineer A.A. Fermont joint in. The building, in Jakarta-kota, the 'Javasche Bank', was finished in 1910 and until 1929 the architectural office realized 14 buildings for this bank firm.


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Fmr. Museum of Het Bataviaasch Genootschap, built in 1862. Two buildings with courtyards.


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Built in 1760, now National Archives/Arsip Nasional.

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Built in 1929, now Bank Mandiri.

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Mangiwau's photostream on Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4340579950_68c9a53ae9_b.jpg) - Menteng Pulo in Jakarta Cemetery


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khunhans' photostream on Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4186802708_93ee512430_o.jpg) - Dutch Art Society building (Kunstkring)

This building has been transformed into a restaurant and bar recently. Before that it was used to house the Immigration department for central Jakarta.

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Link to Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4496998535_faf4626ac7_o.jpg) - Main Train Station / Stasiun Kota

Jakarta Kota Station (Indonesian: Stasiun Jakarta Kota) is a terminal train station, located in the old city core of Jakarta. The station was appointed as a historical and cultural landmark in 1993. The station was first named as the Batavia Zuid (or South Batavia), the name of which was used until the end of the 19th century. The station was also popularly known as the BEOS station as an abbreviation from the Bataviasche Ooster Spoorweg Maatschapij or the Batavian Eastern Railway Company.

The station was built around 1870. It was renovated in 1926 and re-opened on August 19, 1926. It was officially inaugurated on October 8, 1929, by the Dutch Governor-General, A.C.D. de Graeff. The primary designer of the station was the Dutch architect Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels (born September 8, 1882). The design of the station is a combination of Western Art Deco and local architecture styles.

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icture by meneer_nl on Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5005543778_d6c89f92ea_b.jpg) - Aerial of Station Kota on the left.


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Wiki-link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rochelimit/List_of_Colonial_Buildings_in_Jakarta) with a list of colonial buildings in Jakarta

Beautiful architecture.

^^
Thanks :)


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Link at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/3406923320_ebe933c7c6_o.jpg) - Oranjeplein/Onafhankelijkheidsplein - Independence square


Paramaribo

Suriname

Capital of Dutch Suriname from 1667-1975 (*308 years)



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The historic inner city of Paramaribo has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002. The area, a trading post started by the Dutch, was taken by the English in 1630, and in 1650 the city became the capital of the new English colony. The area changed hands often between the English and Dutch but it was in Dutch hands again in 1667 and under Dutch rule until the independence of Suriname in 1975.

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Link at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3580/3371930803_8aa40a32f3_b.jpg) - Now: Ministry of Internal Affairs

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Link at Flickr (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/125356292_63271e4867_o.jpg) - De St. Petrus en Paulus cathedral.

It's said to be the world's largest wooden cathedral building.

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Link at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3371950681_7ecec2e20a_b.jpg) - Kerkplein - Dutch Reformed Church

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Picture by Hornplayer at Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/2660170881_cffbac8b44_b.jpg) - The Waterkant

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Hornplayer's photostream on Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2660994578_e6381cf528_b.jpg) - Queen Wilhemina, neglected statue.

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Link at Flickr (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/536289565_934689d4ce_b.jpg) - Fort Zeelandia

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De Groote kerk

Galle, Ceylon/SriLanka

(1600-1805) - 205 years


The Dutch Reformed Church, with gables on the eastern and western walls, but no tower, was completed in 1755. It is similar in style to the ones in Negapatnam and Cochin in India, even including the walls. It is built on the site of an earlier Portuguese convent. Around the church and within the walls is a small graveyard.


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Mathieu Castel's photostream on Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3377451545_893cb91078_b.jpg)

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1910 : De Nieuwe Markt, Medan/B. Grünberger and the Chartered Bank


Medan

Sumatra, Indonesia

Originally posted by @DOCHAN



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1930 : Hotel De Boer (125 rooms)

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1930 : Kesawan street

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1930 : Kerapatan (district court), Paleisweg.

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1920 : Deli Maatschappij

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1920 : Deli Railway Co, Serdangweg.

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1897 : Sultan's palace.

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1905 : Sultan's palace.

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1905 : Kesawanstraat.

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1920 : The great Mosque, built in 1906 by architect A.J. Dingemans from Amsterdam

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1910 : Javasche Bank

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1905 : Governor's residence

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1905 : Restaurant De Boer

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1905 : De Witte Sociëteit (Club)

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Post and Telegraph-office.

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Gemeentehuis - TownHall

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Governor-General Fock visits the Medan Town Hall

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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KITLV01:2780&size=large) - Rijksraadgebouw/ Karapatan (Courthouse) of the Deli sultanate at the Djalan Radja.


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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A40-1-33&size=large) - Palace of the sultan of Deli, 1920

Thank you for the many pictures illustrating Dutch style buildings around the world.

Here in Philadelphia there was a fashion for traditional Dutch elements in late Victorian houses of the period from about 1875 - 1905. These were homes for upper-middle class bourgeois families that often had live-in servants on the top floor.

Here are two examples, one picture taken at the corner from my own house (which is a French 2nd Empire Style) and the other just a block and a half away.

What do you think? Can you see the Dutch influence? Locally we call this type of residential Victorian architecture "Netherlandish Revival."

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@PhillyBud

Thanks for the pictures - that's a beautiful neighbourhood you live in.

The buildings in the first picture have Russian elements - certainly no Dutch.

The buildings in the second picture are a bit more difficult to classify at first hand, but considering the dark red brick and the number of steps in the front, it looks like a style more derived from Northern-Germany (like in the historical Hansae-cities as Lübeck). :)

Dutch, Flemish, German and Danish styles have an overlap, but with some examples you can easily recognise them. In the Dutch language, this design is termed trapgevel or "stair-step gable", characteristic of many brick buildings in the Netherlands, Belgium and in Dutch colonial settlements.

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This is an original 17th century Dutch-style house and here you can see the typical Dutch elements.

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This is a typical (and original) 17th century Dutch house in New York (Former New Netherlands)

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Link to Blogspot (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b1C9eAAhX3o/TPU_wbOdaCI/AAAAAAAAAfc/9Y1d3PshP8Y/s1600/907.jpg) - Fort Oranje, Itamaracà - Pernambuco


Former Dutch Brazil

1624-1654


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Built by the Dutch in 1631 (the project was designed by engineer Pieter Van Bueren). It was started from May 1631 as a fortification campaign by Dutch forces, under the command of Steyn Callenfels and received the name Fort Orange, in homage to the House of Orange-Nassau, which then ruled the Netherlands. It was garrisoned by a detachment of 366 men under the command of the Polish Captain Crestofle d'Artischau Arciszewski. This effectively resisted the Portuguese forces commanded by Conde of Bagnoli, who defeated (1632), withdrew abandoning its artillery: four pieces of brass brought from Arraial Velho do Bom Jesus. This position formed the basis for the conquest of the island of Itamaracá, defended by the forces of Salvador Pinheiro. After this achievement (1633), the fort was repaired and expanded.

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Link at Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/1659866525_54509983c0_b.jpg) - Fort Frederik Hedrik/Forte das Cinco Pontas

Built in 1630 by the Dutch, it was called by them Fort Frederik Hedrik, the fort was the last place they surrendered in 1654.

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Link at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3113/2350022213_53ecb7e4eb_b.jpg) - Fort de Bruyne / Forte do Brum

One of the most important remains of the Dutch rule in northeast Brazil is the Forte do Brum (Fort de Bruyne), on the northern end of Recife island. The fort was originally started to built in 1629 by the Portuguese, when the Dutch took control of Pernambuco they rebuilt the fort that was dedicated to Johan de Bruyne that was the president of the political council of Olinda and named it Forte de Bruyne.


Natal


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Link at Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2312/2226209768_651dfff7f0_o.jpg) - Forte dos Reis Magos

In December 1633 Van Ceulen captured the Fort of Reis Magos (Dutch Fort Ceulen) at the mouth of the Rio Grande.


Bahia - Itaparica


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Link at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3390/3307760310_2455e5b5db_b.jpg) - Forte de São Lourenço

Construido pelos holandeses em 1647 e reconstruiído pelos portugueses no Século XVIII.

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Malakka / Malacca

Malaysia

1641-1825: 184 years Dutch colony.

Dutch Malacca (1641 - 1824) was the longest period of Malacca under foreign control. The Dutch ruled for almost 183 years with intermittent British occupation during the Napoleonic Wars ( 1795 - 1818 ). This era saw relative peace with little serious interruption from the Malay kingdoms due to the understanding earlier on forged between the Dutch and Sultanate of Johor in 1606. This time also marked the decline of the importance of Malacca. The Dutch preferred Batavia (present day Jakarta) as their economic and administrative center in the region and their hold in Malacca was to prevent the loss of the city to other European powers and subsequently the competition that would naturally comes with it. Thus in the 17th century, with Malacca ceased to be an important port, the Johor Sultanate became the dominant local power in the region, due to the opening of its ports and the alliance with the Dutch.


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The Dutch Reformed Church

Christ Church
Christ Church, which is located at Dutch Square, is the oldest Protestant Church in Malaysia. A legacy of the Dutch era, Christ Church was built in the 18th century with bricks which were specially brought in from Zeeland in Holland. The porch and vestry were added a hundred years after the initial church hall was completed. Like most of the buildings in Dutch Square, Christ Church was painted maroon. This color scheme does not date from the Dutch, however, but was only applied in the early 20th century, around the 1920s. Originally, Christ Church were faced with exposed bricks. Later, a layer of plaster was applied to the bricks when the authorities discovered the wall was leaking. The plaster was then painted white. When the British changed the color in the 1920's, it was bright salmon red. The maroon red that we see today was the job of the local authorities much later. It has however created a distinctive character to the buildings at Dutch Square.

Christ Church was built to commemorate the centennial of Dutch rule in Malacca. Construction began in 1741, and completed in 1753. It follows an extremely simple design, which is a quintessential church of Dutch architecture - rectangular, with massive walls, red granith plinths and Dutch roof tiles. It is perfectly proportion to the ratio of 2:1, 27 meters long by 13 meters wide. There are no aisles or chancel. However, it has beautifully hand-carved pews, and the massive 15-meter long timber beams supporting its roof were cut from a single tree. Plaques on the wall of Christ Church commemorate those who died of the various epidemics while stationed in Malacca, reflecting the tough life faced by the Dutch officers in those days. Encased into the floor of the church are tombstones. Some are written in Portuguese and a few in Armenian. Some historians believe that these originally came from St. Paul's Church up on the hill. There is no conclusive agreement as to who put them on the floor of Christ Church. Some argued that they were placed there by the Dutch when they occupied Melaka in 1641. However, this is unlikely for the highly religious Dutch, who were Protestants, to place Catholic tombstones inside their church. Another possibility is that they were installed there much later, by the British.

When the British took over Malacca, they converted Christ Church for Anglican worship and added the weathercock and bell tower. Fortunately, they leave the old Portuguese tombstones that were laid in the floor where they are, and they remain to this day reminding visitors of the Dutch legacy in Malacca.

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The Stadhuys

The Stadthuys, which means the Municipal Town Hall in Dutch, is the biggest, most prominent building in the Malacca Town Square, and it is also the oldest and biggest Dutch colonial building in Southeast Asia. Construction of it began around 1641, the year the Dutch pried Malacca from the Portuguese, who ruled since the fall of the Malacca Sultanate in 1511. It covers 49,000 square feet. It took close to twenty years to complete it, with building material imported from the Netherlands. Throughout the Dutch Administration until 1824, the Stadthuys served as the civic centre of the town. It houses the Dutch governor and his numerous aides. When the British took over Malacca, they continued to use it as a civic centre. After Independence, the Malaysian government also used it as the State Governing Center until 1979. Since then, it was converted into the Ethnography Museum.

Although the interior is now filled with museum exhibits, it is still possible to view much of the interior with its thick masonry walls and heavy wooden beams. The statue of Admiral Cheng Ho (Zheng He) stand incongruously on the courtyard, commemorating the admirals's visit to Malacca during the time of the Malacca Sultanate. All the buildings here wear a coat of maroon paint, giving the square a decidedly foreign feel not found anywhere else in Malaysia. Unlike popular perception, however, the buildings were not originally painted maroon as you see today. Instead they were faced with bricks. When the authorities discovered the the brick façade leaks, they covered it with plaster and painted it white. Later, in the 1920s, the British changed the colour to a bright salmon red. The present local authorities darkened the colour further, so now we have the buildings in a maroon colour. Recent excavation revealed that beneath the Stadthuys there used to be a Portuguese settlement. A Portuguese well and drainage system were discovered. The remains of the A Famosa, the fort that the Portuguese built right after seizing Malacca, is believed to be buried under the Stadthuys car park today. Today, the Stadthuys houses three museums: the History Museum, the Ethnography Museum and the Literature Museum.

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Picture by superciliousness on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/superciliousness/402842004/sizes/l/in/photostream/) - Dutch administrative building, now Malaysia Youth Museum

The Malaysia Youth Museum is a museum located at Dutch Square next to Christ Church. The building was originally built by the Dutch, and was part of the Dutch colonial administrative complex. In 1931, the British made it the Malacca General Post Office.

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It is the state's oldest museum after independence and was once occupied by Westerhout family for 300 years until 1930.

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The building housing the museum was established as residence of the Dutch ruler of Malacca during Dutch colonial rule in 18th century after Stadthuys and Christ church. After independence, the Malacca water works Council took over the building until 1982. This building was gazette as a historical monument under the Antiquities Act of 1976. In 1998, the Department of Museums Malaysia carried out conservation work on the overall structure of the building and restored the building to its former condition prior to the waterworks council occupying the building. The rebuilt the upright staircase to the upper floors and highlighted the use of large windows and doors plus the protruding beams which was one of the unique and exciting elements of Dutch architecture.

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The Governor's Museum, also known as Muzium Yang Di-Pertua Negeri or Muzium Tuan Yang Terutama, is one of the many museums in Malacca. Formerly called Seri Melaka, the museum is housed in the former official residence and office of the Dutch Governor of Malacca on St Paul's Hill. The building was used as the official residence of the Tuan Yang Terutama, which is the title of the governor, until September 1996. The museum showcases the personal belongings of the various governors of Malacca since independence, beginning with the first Governor of Malacca, Tun Leong Yew Koh.


See this link (http://www.tourism-melaka.com/DUTCHHERITAGETRAIL.pdf) to the Malacca Dutch heritage trail.

Books (http://www.nutmegpublishing.com/hotdim.html) on Dutch Malacca.

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Mesjid Raya Baiturrahman is a large mosque located in the centre of the city of Banda Aceh (fmr. Koetaradja), Aceh province, Indonesia. It is of great symbolic significance to the Acehnese people as a symbol of Acehnese religion and culture, especially since it survived the devastating 2004 tsunami intact. The mosque was built by the Dutch colonial administration as a token of reconciliation following their destruction of an older mosque during the Aceh wars. Construction of the mosque commenced in 1879 and was completed in 1881. The mosque survived the massive 2004 tsunami which destroyed much of the rest of the city of Banda Aceh.

Koeta radja/Banda Aceh

Sumatra - Indonesia


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This building survived the 2004 tsunami.

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Dutch Coldcoast / Ghana

(1637-1872) - 235 years


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Fort SaoJorge d'Elmina

The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, and took over all the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642. The slave trade continued under the Dutch until 1814; In 1871, the Dutch ceded the Goldcoast to Britain in return for Aceh province in Sumatra Indonesia.


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The ruins of Fort Nassau perched above the township of Moree/Mori, along the coastline of the Central Region in Ghana.


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Having constructed a trading lodge at Senya Beraku in 1667, the Dutch were invited by the chief of the Agona State to build a permanent fort. Predicting the boom in trade of gold, ivory, and slaves, the Dutch agreed, and in 1702, construction began on Fort de Goede Hoop, which was strategically constructed on a high bluff which overlooked the cove used as a landing beach for the town, and offered an excellent gunnery position for the fort's cannons.


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Construction of the fort began in 1697 to secure the state of Acorn, which was held by the Dutch, but was precariously situated between Fante & Agona, which were under control of the British.


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The Fort was built by the Dutch in 1690 on the foundations of a trading post opened in 1642.


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More info: see this website (www.ghana-pedia.org)

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Djokjakarta/Yogyakarta

Java, Indonesia


Yogyakarta was founded in 1755 and was the capital of Mataram kingdom when the Dutch came along. The Dutch granted the kings by title Sultan of Yogyakarta territory. Yogyakarta was also the scene of Indonesia's most successful rebellions against the Dutch - firstly with Prince Diponegoro who waged a holy war against colonial rule from 1825 to 1830, and also serving as the capital of the newly independent republic after World War II when the Dutch reoccupied Batavia (Jakarta).


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Fort Vredeburg - Benteng Vredeburg

Fort Vredeburg is a fortress built in 1765 to protect the Dutch governor. It is located in front of Gedung Agung (Residence of the Dutch governor) and the Sultan's Palace called Kraton. It is surrounded by a trench that is still visible. This square-shaped fortress has a watchtower at each of its four corners. In the past, the Dutch troops patrolled frequently on its wall. Nowadays, the fortress has become a museum. In some buildings in the fortress there are dioramas on Indonesian history.

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Great thread.
Well edited and very informative.
Thanks for your effort!

Beautiful stuff, great effort too!

Very informative. At first I thought the Melaka church was Portuguese. I've been very confused since so many European powers ruled there over the centuries.

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Thanks! :)

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Bandoeng / Bandung

Java, Indonesia


It is not known exactly when Bandung city was built. However, contrary to the beliefs of some the city was not originally built by the orders of Daendels, the Dutch East Indies Governor General, but by the orders of 'Bupati' R.A. Wiranatakusumah II. The Dutch colonial powers built wide tree-lined boulevards, villas, gardens, and fountains, earning Bandung the nickname of "Parijs van Java", the Paris of Java, in the early 20th century. Many of these structures survive to today, and can be seen along the road leading to the Dago area north of the city. In the 1930s the Dutch East Indies government planned for Bandung to become the capital of the Dutch East Indies due to its location, however World War II disrupted these plans.


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Picture by Katong DS at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3601/3330943522_1299af8b53_o.jpg) - St.Petruskathedraal.

Ir. Charles Proper Wolff Schoemaker commissioned this cathedral in 1921. Located on Jalan Merdeka no. 14.

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Gedung Pakuan, built in 1864 and finished in 1866. The architectural style is 'Indische Empire Stijl' (Gaya Empire Hindia). Now West Java Governor residential.

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Sovoy Homann Hotel, has been maintained as the city's landmark hotel. The oldest part of the hotel dates back 1880. In 1938 the Savoy Homann got its new design, the classic Art Deco design. Some of the rooms have been left in original state, and offer the unique experience of staying in exactly the same room that Charlie Chaplin stayed in 1925.


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The famous Preanger Hotel of Bandung, first built in the 1880s and subsequently redesigned with Art Deco flourishes in the 1920s by the famed architect, Professor Wolfe Shoemaker. The young Sukarno who was his student at the Technische Hogeschool (now Institut Teknologi Bandung), is believed to have assisted Shoemaker in the endeavour. The hotel was renovated again in the 1980s.


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Built in 1895 for a club house for rich people, named the Concordia Society. In 1921, Societeit Concordia Building was rebuilt in a more functional and structural modern architecture (Art Deco) by designer C. P Wolff Schoemaker. It was renovated again in 1940 with new international style architecture with the help of Architect A. F Aalbers.


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Gedung Sate

A neo-classical building mixed with native elements that served as a governmental office under Dutch administration and now serves as the governor's office of the West Java province in Indonesia. Located in Bandung, the building was designed by a Dutch architect J. Gerber.


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Picture by Ikhlasul Amal at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3399/3412061603_976ae1b5aa_b.jpg) - [B]Wisma Sawunggaling, Jalan Sawunggaling

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Picture by Ikhlasul Amal at Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3347/3279731210_7bc0d74828_b.jpg) - Braga street

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Atjehstraat - Merdikaweg - Bilitonstraat - Sumatrastraat - Borneostraat - Bangkastraat

This view from 1920's gives a good view of the north east district of the center. The KNIL (Dutch Army) War Department building, right from the middle, is the one that catches attention, in the Kalimantan Street. On the left the Palace of the Army commandant (in the Aceh street) and the Molukkenpark (Taman Maluku), and the HBS (now it is SMU 3 Building) on the right of Bilitonstraat (Belitung Street). In the front of the War Department is the Insulindepark (now Taman Lalulintas), surrounded by all kinds of building and houses of KNIL officers. Behind the War Department are buildings of the the Jaarbeurs, first built in 1920. Down left in the picture is the intersection between Aceh Street and Merdeka Street (BIP). At the background, in the left corner is the Department of Government buildings, betterknown as Gedung Sate.

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Wiki Commons (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_HBS_Bandoeng_TMnr_60016835.jpg) - HBS School (High School)

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*** Link (http://arsitekturbandung.wordpress.com/category/government-building/) with a list of colonial buildings in Bandung.

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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:PKL01:MM-537-115&size=large)

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Great photos!

Informative thread, it is interesting to know that some months ago two Dutch cannons were discovered in Bandar Abbas (Gamron), the capital of Hormozgan province of Iran: http://www.irna.ir/html/1389/13890606/218000.htm

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@Cyrus - Thanks for posting ;) In this thread I hope to post about Dutch trading posts in Iran in the future.

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New Amsterdam / New York City

New Netherlands / New York State (USA)

1625-1667



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Link to Flickr (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1240/1259215413_5928273d57_b.jpg) - Bronck House, built in 1663: Oldest house in upstate New York

Bronck House, also known as Pieter Bronck House, is a Dutch homestead house in Coxsackie in Greene County, New York that was constructed in 1663 and added to later. It is the oldest structure in upstate New York, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967. A stone house was built first, by Pieter Bronck, a descendent of Jonas Bronck for whom the Bronx was named, who bought the property from native Americans. That was expanded soon after, and, in 1738 a larger brick house that was connected by a doorway was built by his grandson. The house is reputed to be the location where the Coxsackie Declaration of Independence was signed, more than a year before the Continental Congress signing in 1776.

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Lukas van Alen house. Dating to 1737 - traditional Dutch architecture transplanted into the Hudson River Valley. The House" and its farm are believed to have served as the inspiration for homestead of the Van Tassel family in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving was a close friend of Kinderhook native (and U.S. President) Martin Van Buren, a neighbor of the "Van Alen House" and a frequent guest in the town. The house is currently operated by the Columbia County Historical Society as a historic house museum showing 18th century Colonial life.


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Frederick Philipse I, Lord of Philipse Manor, owned the vast stretch of land spanning from Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx to the Croton River. After swearing allegiance and later being granted his Manorship from the English, he began construction of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Although financing this project, work likely progressed slowly and was completed in 1685. The church's walls are about two-feet thick and are composed of local fieldstone. Cast in Holland in 1685, the tiny church bell still hangs in the open-air steeple. Engraved on the bell is a verse from Romans 8:31, “Si Deus Pro Nobis, Quis Contras Nos?” ("If God be for us, who can be against us"), as well as Frederick Philipse’s monogram, “VF.” This monogram also appears on the weathervane above the steeple.

This building is now known as the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, a name given by Washington Irving in his "Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Washington Irving himself is buried in the cemetary surrounding the church, now known as the Old Dutch Burying Ground. Seriously. On the north side of the doorway is inserted a stone tablet inscribed as follows: ERECTED AND BUILT BY FREDERICK PHILIPS AND CATHARINE VAN CORTLANDT HIS WIFE, IN 1699.

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Picture by Tommy Bass at Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2431463612_e8e2672f68_b.jpg) - Philipse Manor Hall, Yonkers, NY (1682)

The southwest corner, the oldest part of the structure, was built around 1682 by Dutch-born carpenter and trader Frederick Philipse, a son-in-law of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who - by the time of his death - had amassed a 52,000-acre (21,000 ha) estate that encompassed the entire modern city of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns. During Philipse's life, the building was used primarily as a stopover point on the long journey up and down the river between his home in New Amsterdam and the northern parts of his estate. His grandson, Frederick Philipse II, and his great-grandson, Frederick Philipse III, successively enlarged and enhanced the building, making it the primary family residence. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.


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Link to Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2934633290_10c1827ea0_b.jpg) - Yates House - fmr. house of the Schuyler family, Schenectady, New York, ca. 1700.


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De Wint House, after the family who owned it during Washington's visits, it is the oldest surviving structure in Rockland County, New York, and an outstanding example of Colonial Dutch architecture in the Hudson Valley. Washington's first stay at the House was from August 8 to 24, 1780, while he was inspecting a redoubt on the Hudson. Major Frederickus Blauvelt, the son-in-law of Johannes and Antje DeWint, who owned the house at the time, invited Washington to stay with the family. Later, when the American Army had moved to Orangeburg, Washington returned on September 28, through October 7, 1780, for the trial and subsequent hanging of the British spy, Major John André.

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The Voorlezer's House is a historic clapboard frame house in Historic Richmond Town in Staten Island, New York. It is the oldest known schoolhouse in America, although it became a private residence for more than a century, and it is now owned and operated by the Staten Island Historical Society. It was built before 1696, and the date of the patent on which it is located is 1680. "Voorlezer" is a Dutch word that can be translated as "Fore-reader". A voorlezer is an assistant to a pastor who, in the absence of a pastor, may hold religious services and read scripture, as well as run a school. Though well-maintained for many years, by 1936 it had fallen into disrepair and was threatened with demolition. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and was added to National Register of Historic Places when that registry was created in 1966.

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It is now the oldest building in the Bronx.

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At 94 North Front Street on the corner of Green Street in Kingston, is a Dutch Colonial style stone house built about 1679 in the northwest corner of the 1568 Stockade area. An excellent example of early American-Dutch rubble construction, the Hoffman House displays several of the "prototypical" characteristics of Dutch Colonial housing.


One of the few buildings in Kingston not burned in 1777 by British troops

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Pieter Claesen Van Norden Wyckoff and his wife, Grietje Cornelis (Van Ness) Wyckoff moved into this Dutch home in 1655 on Canarsie Lane in Flatlands, Brooklyn, NY. They sailed from Amsterdam, Holland on 25Sept. 1636 and reached New Amsterdam, New Netherland (New York) 7 April 1637.

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** List of the oldest buildings in New York Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_New_York)
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Link to Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/3114567887_b45dd524c2_b.jpg) - Hotel Oranje/Hotel Majapahit, built in 1910 by the famous Sarkies Brothers


Soerabaja/Surabaya

Java, Indonesia



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Picture by itboediman's photostream at Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2049/2082183553_11ecbbbed3_z.jpg?zz=1) - Governor's office/Kantor Gubernur Jawa Timur, Jalan Pahlawan

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jesuskarto (http://jesuskarto.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/kantor-pos2.jpg) - Javasche Bank/Bank Indonesia

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www.eastjava.com (http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/surabaya/ptpn-building/source/image/ptpn-11-022.jpg) - Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam, built by Hulswit, Fermont & Ed. Cuypers, 1925

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www.eastjava.com (http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/surabaya/ptpn-building/source/image/ptpn-11-004.jpg) - Rode Brug


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www.eastjava.com (http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/surabaya/internatio-building/source/image/internatio-building-03.jpg) - Internationale Krediet en Handelsvereeniging, built in 1929 by Frans Johan Lowrence.

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www.eastjava.com (http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/surabaya/internatio-building/source/image/internatio-building-04.jpg) - Internatio-building

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www.eastjava.com (http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/surabaya/city-hall/source/image/city-hall-01.jpg) - Surabaya Municipal Hall, built in 1920.

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1898 - during the coronation of Queen Wilhelmina.

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Former 'Handelsstraat'.

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Aerial Soerabaya - in the middle the Roode Brug over the Kali Mas river.

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Former 'Werfstraat'.

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Sociëteit Concordia, Soerabaya.

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Feshenating photos!!

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Fort Belgica

Banda and Neira islands, Indonesia

Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is located in the Banda Islands, Maluku Province, and is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia. Constructed in 1611, the fort was an important defensive structure commanding over the bay of Bandanaira. Its construction gave the Dutch an edge over other colonial powers in the area, and still remains the largest extant structure on the Banda Islands. This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on in the Cultural category.


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Picture by kram cam on Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4645604902_13166a47ce_b.jpg) - The Dutch Reformed Church in Galle.


Sri Lanka

Former Ceylon

1602 - 1802


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Link to Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/3034953076_eb30844d2c_b.jpg) - Wolvendaal church Colombo, 1749


Colombo


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Link to Flickr (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/328004754_993549f633_b.jpg) - Former residence Dutch Governor - now Dutch Era museum

The Colombo Dutch Museum is a museum that covers the history of the Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka.

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Galle


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Link to Flickr (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/3384206319_9de943f975_b.jpg) - Dutch East India Company - Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) - the omnipresent logo of the world's first multinational.

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Picture by Rhi2010 on Flickr (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4271384070_fb9e118dce_b.jpg) - Typical dutch colonial style house.

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Picture by kram cam at Flickr (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4645604902_13166a47ce_b.jpg) - Former the Dutch Governor's palace (1684), now the New Oriental Hotel.

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Link to Flickr (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/285781358_062b24a131_o.jpg) - These waterways are todays still called 'Dutch canals'. A whole network of waterways was constructed and is still used intensively today.



More on the Dutch canal system on SriLanka in this article. (http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/dutch/dutch4.htm)
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Surat

Gujarat, India

1617-1795 (178 years)

The structure of the Old English and Old Dutch cemeteries in Surat is dominated by the largest monuments of Europeans we have found all over India. These graves are also some of the oldest tombs which have survived from the earliest times of British and Dutch activities at Surat. The English traders settled in Surat in 1608 followed by the Dutch in 1617. French and also Swedes - even for just a short period - commenced trading-enterprises here. However, it seems that there are no re-mainders of their burial culture left today. Along with the Dutch also Armenian traders left a quite big cemetery in Surat. Both nations share the same burial ground only separated by a wall. There is no typical structure of this burial ground. In contrast to the English cemetery at Surat and most of the other European burial sites in India, this burial ground is dominated by huge pavilions and monuments.

Tomb - Architecture and Form:
Again, destructions caused by climate and also by alterations of the mausoleums are responsible for the loss of most of the inscriptions. Only six inscriptions remain. Three of them are situated in the tomb of "Baron Adriaan van Reede". This monument is the largest of all monuments we have found in India. (below left) This baroque monument only shows few connections to the Arabian art. The building consists of a double copula with an upper and lower gallery. The galleries and copula are supported by decorated columns. However, there is no clear style to identify. The plinth of the columns resemble Doric style, even if the torus in the middle of the columns is not typical for this style. We likewise find adoptions of a classical tholos with columns, stairs and the cella in the interior. The decoration with wood carvings, frescoes and escutcheons which were originally inside and outside the monument, support the impression that this pavilion was built in remembrance of an important, higher ranking person, don't exist anymore. Bellasis mentions that later about 6000 Rupees were spent by the Dutch VOC for repairing works. The whole arrangement emphasizes the social status of the Baron in this particular case.


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Photograph of the tomb of the Dutch Governor Baron Adriaan van Reede at Surat in Gujarat from the 'Album of architectural and topographical views, mostly in South Asia' taken by an unknown photographer in 1895. Surat was an important Mughal trading port. The English, Dutch, Portuguese and French were permitted to trade here in the seventeenth century. Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) wrote a work on plant species called the "Hortus Malabaricus" which was published in 12 volumes in Amsterdam from 1686-1703. Van Reede, who was the son of a Dutch forester, enlisted the help of the local community of tree-tappers and ayurvedic medical practioners who had specific knowledge of plant species. This view of his tomb in the Dutch Cemetery shows an double cupola with open arcades. On ground level, the arcade is supported by columns.


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See this link (www.farelli.info/pages_colonies/asia/india.htm) for more info on this subject

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Semarang

Java, Indonesia


Even though in the Dutch East Indies Batavia was the political center of government and Surabaya became the center of commerce, the third largest city in Java was Semarang. As off during the time of the Dutch East India Co., Semarang had always been an important center of government for North Java, employing many Indo-European officials, until GG Daendels (1808–1811) simplified burocracy by eliminating this extra layer of officialdom. The historic presence of a large Indo (Eurasian) community in the area of Semarang is also reflected by the fact a creole mix language called Javindo existed there.

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The Protestant Church in Semarang was built by the Dutch community in 1753. In 1894, the Church underwent extensive renovation, under the guidance of W. Westmaas and H.P.A de Wilde.

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This magnificent building, designed by Dutch architects Prof. Jacob F. Klinkhamer and B.J Queendag in art-deco style, used to be the office of Nederlandsch Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NIS), which was built in 1903 and completed in 1907. Today, the name of the building is 'Lawang Sewu', meaning 'the building with a thousand doors'. Because of it's size the building has many rooms and each room has about 4-8 doors, then if calculated is about 1000 doors. There are wo main building massed. The building on the west-side has the shape of an 'L'. It said that its floors made from marble from Italy, its iron spiral-staircase was made without any weld. In the main stair, there are a beautiful big mosaic and huge glass windows.

See this link (http://zoeken.nai.nl/CIS/project/6242) to the Dutch National Architecture Institute for more info on this building.

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The present Semarang Tawang Station started to operate on 1 June 1914. The station was built by NIS (Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorwegmaatschappij) railway company to replace Samarang Station in Tambaksari. Samarang Station has been operational since 1867. The architect of Semarang Tawang Station is Sloth-Blauwboer. The huge and robust pillars and walls reflect the splendor of the station building. Despite its artistic and splendid styles, according to the original goal of the building construction (as stated by Director of NIS in Den Haag, the Netherlands), the building was emphasized on the functionality. At the same time, on 6 August 1914, the SCS (Semarang-Cheribon Stoomtram Maatschappij) railway company launched Semarang Poncol station designed by architect Henry Maclaine – Pont.

See here (http://semarang-tourism-magazine.blogspot.com/2010/08/rail-history-tread-station-in-semarang.html) for more info on the railway station.

..........Or here (http://indonesianheritagerailway.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:stasiun-semarang-tawang&catid=57:stations&lang=en&Itemid=)

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** See: here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=273211&page=10) for more pictures on colonial architecture in Semarang

Hi Nemo,

You know what kind of modifications were made by you in Galle fort?

Awesome pictures. :cheers:

^^

Hi Costa,

The Portuguese first built a relatively small fort in Galle (certainly in comparison with impressive forts like Bom Jesus in Mombasa). The Dutch later extended the fort, constructed high ramparts with bastions. Governor Petrus Vuyst was responsible for the large scale works. But all over the city ou can still see Portuguese influences in the architecture style the Dutch used - a tropical Portuguese/Dutch hybrid.

I really enjoy the Portuguese architecture thread - impressive! The pictures of Salvador de Bahia were great! ;)

Guys, it's a bit off-topic, but I hope you could help me: what was the Dutch population in the colonial Indonesia?

Did some googleing, but can't find much information.

After independence about 300,000 people were repatriated to the Netherlands, although most were Indo-Europeans.

Wiki mentions that there were about 1,500 Dutch civil servants and 16,000 Dutch soldiers in Indonesia in 1900, and there were 13,000 Dutch children enrolled in school.

In 1941 the KNIL (Dutch East-Indies army) consisted of about 45,000 Dutch soldiers, although this includes Indo-Europeans and other Europeans.

According to the Dutch wiki on the Japanse camps, there were about 100,000 'white' (European) civilians in Indonesia during the occupation. I don't know how many people had fled Indonesia by that time.

So I doubt the Dutch population of Indonesia ever exceded 150,000 people. The total population in 1940 was ~70 million.

^^
Thanks, Crownsteler!

I have an 1950's English edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and they claim the number of white people in Indonesia was high as 300,000 White people by 1940. However, they don't provide further details, that's why I'm asking you guys for more information.

I found the number quiet high, which at least for me, changes the image of the Europeans colonists in Asia. I tended to assume it was only a smaller elite of well-paid mandarins and wealth tradesmen. However, the 300,000 figure suggests a much more complex society, with probably a sizeable middle-class and even work-class or small farmers.

Anyway, I'd like to have more information about the "Dutch way of life" in Dutch East Indies, specially from the 1930's and 1940's, but also about the whole 300 years of colonization.

Well, the 300,000 figure might actually be correct. I found a document (http://www.nidi.knaw.nl/Content/NIDI/output/2003/bt-51-01-beets.pdf) from the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences about the demographics of Indo Europeans, but it also mentions the Dutch population in Indonesia.

It seems to agree that there were about 300,000 Dutchmen in Indonesia in 1940. It estimates that there were 305,000 Europeans in Indonesia in 1942, and 283,000 in 1946. Furthermore it mentions that about 300,000 people migrated to Indonesia from the Netherlands between 1900 and 1940.

2 other nuggets mentioned are;
The total Dutch population was ~91,000 in 1900.
There were 2000 Dutchmen in Indonesia in 1820.

The average jearly earnings in 1930 were about 60 guilders for a native, and 2700 of a Dutchmen (according to 1 source, the average yearly earnings in the Netherlands were 2000 guilders). Appearently only 2000 Indians earned more than 2000 guilders per year (Life magazine (http://books.google.nl/books?id=sD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=life+in+the+netherlands+east+indies&source=bl&ots=7wF94M5TFs&sig=uRkpIuZ_n0B2Ve8G4i61GnZu_9k&hl=nl&ei=A3A_TYSLJMXtOaLjuOwK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=life%20in%20the%20netherlands%20east%20indies&f=false)

^^

I checked Dutch websites - a bit easier to find info on that subject I think. ;)

In 1942:

- 80.000 Dutchmen (migrated from Holland - mostly people in the service of the government).
- 200.000 Dutchmen born in the Dutch East Indies.

So more or less then 300.000 Europeans (with non-Dutch European strangers counted in)


The population consisted of three layers:
* The Europeans (Indo-Europeans)

* Inlandse bevolking or 'local Dutch East Idian population' - 1940: 68 million.

* Vreemdelingen or 'strangers' :
* Chinese - 1940: 1.250.000
* Arab - 1940: 50.000
* Malay- 1940: 20.000
* British

link (http://www.indischekamparchieven.nl/nl/bezetting-en-bersiap)

^^
Yes, it's a lot of people. Those East Indies-born Dutch were probably very adapted to the country, like the British in India. It's so weird to think it's been only 60 years since the end of the Dutch rule and those lifestyle actually kept going several places throughout the next decades. It's a shame the Dutch language didn't take roots in Indonesia.

Well, I found those interesting videos on Youtube:

Colonial Dutch-Indies (1938-39 in colour) [Part 1 of 4]
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Colonial Dutch-Indies (1938-39 in colour) [Part 2 of 4]
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Colonial Dutch-Indies (1938-39 in colour) [Part 3 of 4]
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Colonial Dutch-Indies (1938-39 in colour) [Part 4 of 4]
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^^
One scene is particulary unconfortable, but I suppose that's the way the things were back then.

@Yuri
Thanks for these video's, they are really nice. And as for the uncomfortable moments....I guess all of history is full of these uncomfortable moments - we can only hope that we learn from it. ;)


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Fort Zeelandia

Formosa/Taiwan

1624-1662


Fort Zeelandia (Chinese: 熱蘭遮城) was a large fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, in the town of Anping (Tainan) on the island of Formosa, present day Taiwan, during their 38-year rule over the western part of it. Although the site has been previously named Orange City (奧倫治城), Anping City (安平城), and Tayoan City (台灣城), the current name of the site in Chinese is Fort Anping (安平古堡). The Dutch chose a sandy peninsula off the coast of Tainan as the site of the fortress since this would allow the fortress direct access to the sea and with it, supplies and reinforcements from Batavia in event of a siege. Unfortunately, the site chosen lacked adequate supplies of fresh water, which had to be shipped in from the mainland.

The bricks used for the construction of the fortress were brought over from Java, and the mortar used consisted of a mixture of sugar, sand, ground seashells and glutinous rice. The fort was designed to be surrounded by three concentric layers of walls and the four corners of the fort were built into protruding bastions for better defence. On 30 April 1661, General Zheng Cheng-gong ("Koxinga") of Ming China (1368-1644) laid siege to the fortress (defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers) with 400 warships and 25,000 men. After a nine-month siege with the loss of 1,600 Dutch lives, the Dutch surrendered the Fortress on 1 February 1662, when it became clear that no reinforcements were forthcoming from Batavia ( present day Jakarta, Java, Indonesia ) and when the defenders ran short of fresh water.

Under the Koxinga-Dutch Treaty (1662) signed on 1 February 1662 between Koxinga and Frederick Coyett, the Dutch governor, the Dutch surrendered the Fortress and left all the goods and property of the VOC behind at Fort Zeelandia. In return, all officials, soldiers and civilians were free to leave with their personal belongings and supplies. On 9 February 1662, Frederick Coyett handed over the keys to the fort and led the remaining Dutch forces and civilians back to Batavia by sea, ending 38 years of Dutch colonial rule on Taiwan.
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National Anping Harbor Historical Park is one of Taiwan's Focus Development Projects. Apart from exploring the tourism potential of the harbor, the importance of the project remains in the review of the historical meaning of Fort Zeelandia (AnPing Fort). Fort Zeelandia is the most significant historical monument of Taiwan in the Great Age of Explorations during the 17th Century.

However, after 300 years, only 3 walls remain of the once magnificent Fort Zeelandia. The southern wall of Fort Zeelandia is the biggest of the remains with a length of 65.8 metres. 2 other shorter sections hide deep in people’s houses. Although from the end of Ching Dynasty to Japanese occupation Fort Zeelandia's appearance has changed greatly, many people still believe that the original building foundation is still buried underneath the ground.

Therefore, ways on how to unearth the building structures is a task many archaeologists are confronting. Around the world many nations are beginning to study their own archaeological remains. These studies not only enhance the tourism industry, but also provide a sense of national and historical pride for the nation. Moreover it also contributes to accumulations of knowledge for generations to come. The Tainan City Government's aim is to present more clearly Fort Zeelandia to the world as one of Taiwan's few world-class historic sites and add values to the National An Ping Harbor Historical Park. In doing so the Government is enlisting the help of Cheng Kung National University Engineering Research Centre by using non-intrusive radar which explores the remains of Fort Zeelandia without damaging the site. This exploration has heralded some success as the analysis shows that 70% of the original structure of the Fort Zeelandia historic site is still intact.

Underneath the walls of Fort Zeelandia, at about 3.5 to 4 meters of depth, in an area of 20 meters long, for every 6 meters there is a hole of 1 meter in diameter. Are these holes the entrances to the legendary Dutch tunnels? These finds further add to the mystery and archaeological values of Fort Zeelandia, and they have motivated the Tainan City Government to excavate the remains of the Castle wall, in hope to find out the way of the dwellers’ life of Fort Zeelandia during the Dutch Era. In a very near future the City Government will be able to present a more complete face of the Fort Zeelandia to the world.

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Villa Isola

Bandung - Java, Indonesia


Villa Isola (now Bumi Siliwangi) is an art-deco building in the northern part of Bandung, the capital of West Java province of Indonesia. Overlooking the valley with the view of the city, Villa Isola was built in 1932 by the Dutch architect Wolff Schoemaker for the Dutch media tycoon Dominique William Berretty, the founder of the Aneta press-agency in the Dutch East Indies. The original purpose of the building was for Berretty's private house, but then it was transformed into a hotel after his death and now it serves as the headmastership office of the University of Education Indonesia.

Villa Isola was constructed within six months (October 1932 — March 1933), which was quite fast at that time. The foundation was built of steel and concrete was used to fill the skeleton and the floors between iron bars. The Villa Isola complex consists of the building itself and two large gardens and it covered an area of about 120,000 square metres (1,300,000 sq ft).

The design of the Villa Isola by architect Wolff Schoemaker, was influenced by indigenous Javanese philosophy. The orientation of the building is according to the north—south axis, where the building faces Mount Tangkuban Perahu to the north and the city of Bandung to the south. Schoemaker was a firm follower of the art-deco style, which he mixed with local ornaments. Many circular shapes decorated the whole complex, the design of which reminds people of the shape of Candi in the east of Java. Circle is the main theme of the complex, both inside and outside the villa, including the gardens.



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See this Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Isola) for more info.

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Buitenzorg/Bogor

West-Java, Indonesia


In the Middle Ages, the city was the capital of Sunda Kingdom (Indonesian: Kerajaan Sunda) and was called Pakuan Pajajaran. During the Dutch colonization of Indonesia, it was named Buitenzorg and served as the summer residence of the Governor-General of Dutch East Indies. The area attracted the Dutch by a favorable geographical position and mild climate, preferred over the hot Batavia which was then the administrative center of the Dutch East Indies. In 1744–1745, the residence of the Governor-General was built in Pakuan which was hosting the government during the summer. In 1746, by the order of the Governor-General Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff, the Palace, a nearby Dutch settlement and nine native settlements were merged into an administrative division named Buitenzorg (meaning either "beyond care" or "outside care").


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The Palace

The original colonial building on the site of Istana Bogor was a mansion named Buitenzorg (also Sans Souci), which was built from August 1744 as a country retreat for the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. Notable occupants of the mansion include Herman Willem Daendels and Sir Stamford Raffles during the Bitish interregnum). This building was substantially damaged by an earthquake in 1834, triggered by the volcanic eruption of Mount Salak. The palace was rebuilt into its present form in 1856— this time with only one storey instead of the original three, as a precaution against further earthquakes. From 1870 to 1942 the Istana Bogor served as the official residence of the Dutch Governors General. After Indonesian independence, the palace was much used by President Sukarno, but then largely neglected by Suharto when he came to office.

The grounds of the estate contain several buildings - the largest of which is the main palace and its two wings. The main palace contains private offices for the head of state, a library, a dining room, a ministers' meeting room, a theater room, and the Garuda room (for welcoming State guests). The two wings are used as the guest residences for State guests. Kebun Raya Bogor ("Great Gardens of Bogor", the Bogor Botanical Gardens) are also part of the palace grounds. The palace houses an extensive art collection which had been accumulated by Soekarno. A herd of spotted deer still range within the palace grounds; a group of these had originally been brought there by the Dutch for hunting and sport.


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Inflight with Glenn Martin bombers of the Royal Netherlands Indian Army (KNIL) over the Palace in Buitenzorg.

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The Botanical gardens

The world renowned Bogor Botanical Gardens (Indonesian: Kebun Raya) are situated in the city center of Bogor and adjoin the Istana Bogor (Presidential Palace). The gardens cover more than 80 hectares and was built by Java's Dutch Governor-General Gustaaf Willem, Baron van Imhoff who was governor of Java at the time.

The extensive grounds of the presidential palace were converted into the gardens by the German-born Dutch botanist, Professor Casper George Carl Reinwardt. The gardens officially opened in 1817 as 's Lands Plantentuin ('National Botanical Garden') and were used to research and develop plants and seeds from other parts of the Indonesian archipelago for cultivation during the 19th century. This is a tradition that continues today and contributes to the garden's reputation as a major center for botanical research. Today the garden contains more than 15,000 species of trees and plants located among streams and lotus ponds. There are 400 types of exceptional palms to be found along the extensive lawns and avenues, helping the gardens create a refuge for more than 50 different varieties of birds and for groups of bats roosting high in the trees. In 1862, the Cibodas Botanical Gardens were founded as an extension of the Bogor garden at Cibodas, approximately 45 kilometers to the southeast of Bogor.



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Prof. Treub

Melchior Treub (December 26, 1851 - October 3, 1910) was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden. From 1880 until 1909 he was a botanist in the Dutch East Indies. Treub is remembered for his botanical work with tropical flora on the island of Java. He is especially recognized for his organization of the Bogor Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg as a world-renowned scientific institution of botany. He worked for nearly 30 years at the botanical gardens, returning to the Netherlands a year prior to his death in 1910 (wikipedia)


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Hospitals

Suriname

Attribution: Tropenmuseum of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)


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Military Hospital Paramaribo

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Military Hospital Paramaribo

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Military Hospital Paramaribo

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Military Hospital Paramaribo

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The garden and kitchen building.

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Barracks next to the Military Hospital for persons with infections

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The building of the Health Authority in the 'Oranjestraat'

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St.Vincentius hospital, Paramaribo

Fantastic. I find cities, towns, trading posts and forts built by Europeans incredibly fascinating. I wonder what the life was like for the first settlers/traders.....anyone know any good literature on the subject?

@ElGreco

There are so many books on this subject - you just have to specify. There are many books about the Spanish and Portuguese voyages of discovery and equally plenty about the Dutch.

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Memorial Tomb of Susanna Anna-Maria

Chinsura, West Bengal, India

The tomb of Susanna Anna Maria Yeats 'Verkerk' as is readible in the top of the 8 meter high dome. She was first married to the VOC opperkoopman Pieter Brueys (his tomb is at the Duth cemetery in Chinsurah) and later with the British Thomas Yeats. She died in 1809. This building is one of the many old remenants of Dutch settlement in Chinsura, West Bengal, India between 1605 and 1825.

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Deshima

Nagasaki, Japan

1641-1857: 216 years trade monopoly.



Dejima ("exit island"; Dutch: Desjima or Deshima) was a small fan-shaped artificial island built in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634. This island, which was formed by digging a canal through a small peninsula, remained as the single place of direct trade and exchange between Japan and the outside world during the Edo period. Dejima was built to constrain foreign traders as part of "sakoku" self-imposed isolationist policy. Originally built to house Portuguese traders, it changed to a Chinese and Dutch trading post from 1641 until 1853. Covering an area of 120 m x 75 m (9000 square meters, or 0.9 hectares) it became integrated into the city.

In 1543 Portuguese traders were the first to land in Japan, on Tanegashima. The artificial island was constructed in 1634 on orders of shogun Iemitsu, originally to constrain Portuguese merchants living in Nagasaki. But after an uprising of the predominantly Christian population in the Shimabara-Amakusa region the Tokugawa government decided to expel all Western nationals except the Dutch employees of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC).

Since 1609 the Dutch had run a trading post on the island of Hirado. At its maximum the Hirado trading post covered a large area. In 1637 and 1639 stone warehouses were constructed within the ambit of this Hirado trading post. Christian era year dates were used on the stonework of the new warehouses. Without the annual Portuguese ships from Macau, the economy of Nagasaki suffered heavily. Government officials, who were looking for means to relocate the Dutch trading post, forced the Dutch to move from Hirado to Dejima.

From 1641 on, only Chinese and Dutch ships were allowed to come to Japan.

Organization
On the administrative level the island of Dejima was part of the city of Nagasaki. The 25 local Japanese families that owned the real estate received an annual rent from the Dutch. Dejima was a small island, 120 by 75 meters,[3] linked to the mainland by a small bridge, guarded on both sides, and with a gate on the Dutch side. It contained houses for about twenty Dutchmen, warehouses, and accommodation for Japanese officials. The Dutch were watched by a number of Japanese officials, gatekeepers, night watchmen, and a supervisor (otona) with about fifty subordinates. There were a number of merchants for supplies and catering and about 150 tsūji ("interpreters"). They all had to be paid by the VOC. Like the city of Nagasaki Dejima was under direct supervision of Edo by a governor (Nagasaki bugyō).

Every ship that arrived in Dejima was inspected, and sails were seized until that ship was set to leave. Religious books and weapons were sealed and confiscated. No religious services were allowed on the island. Despite the financial burden of the isolated outpost on Dejima, the trade with Japan was very profitable for the VOC, initially yielding profits of 50% or more. Trade declined in the 18th century, as only two ships per year were allowed to dock at Dejima. After the bankruptcy of the VOC in 1795, the Dutch government took over exchange with Japan. Times were especially hard when the Netherlands (then called the Batavian Republic) was under French Napoleonic rule and all ties with the homeland were severed. For a while Dejima remained the only place in the world where the Dutch flag was flown.

The chief VOC official in Japan was called the Opperhoofd by the Dutch, or Kapitan (from Portuguese capitão) by the Japanese. This descriptive title did not change when the island's trading fell under Dutch state authority. Throughout these years, the plan was to have one incumbent per year—but sometimes plans needed to be flexible.

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Trade
Originally, the Dutch mainly traded in silk, cotton, materia medica from China and India, but sugar became more important later. Also, deer pelts and shark skin were transported to Japan from Taiwan, as well as books, scientific instruments and many other rarities from Europe. In return, the Dutch traders bought Japanese copper, silver, camphor, porcelain, lacquer ware and even rice. To this was added the personal trade of VOC employees on Dejima which was an important source of income. More than 10,000 foreign books on various scientific subjects were thus sold to the Japanese from the end of the 18th to the early 19th century, thus becoming the central factor of the Rangaku movement, or Dutch studies.

Ship arrivals
Chinese men apreciating a Japanese fan.In all, 606 Dutch ships arrived at Dejima during two centuries of settlement, from 1641 to 1847. The first period, from 1641 to 1671, was rather free, and saw an average of 7 Dutch ships every year (12 perished in this period). From 1671 to 1715, about 5 Dutch ships were allowed to visit Dejima every year. From 1715, only 2 ships were permitted every year, which was reduced to 1 ship in 1790, and again increased to 2 ships in 1799. During the Napoleonic wars, in which the Netherlands was occupied by (and a satellite of) France, Dutch ships could not safely reach Japan in the face of British opposition, so they instead relied on "neutral" American and Danish ships. (Interestingly, when the Netherlands was made a province by France (1811–1814), and Britain conquered Dutch colonial possessions in Asia, Dejima remained for four years the only place in the world where the free Dutch flag was still flying, under the leadership of Hendrik Doeff.) After the liberation of the Netherlands in 1815, regular traffic was reestablished.

For two hundred years, Dutch merchants were generally not allowed to cross from Dejima to Nagasaki, and Japanese were likewise banned from entering Dejima, except for prostitutes from Nagasaki teahouses. These yūjo were handpicked from 1642 by the Japanese, often against their will. From the 18th century there were some exceptions to this rule, especially following Tokugawa Yoshimune's doctrine of promoting European practical sciences. A few Oranda-yuki ("those who stay with the Dutch") were allowed to stay for longer periods, but they had to report regularly to the Japanese guard post. European scholars such as Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, Isaac Titsingh and Philipp Franz von Siebold were allowed to enter the mainland with the shogunate's permission.[4] Starting in the 18th century, Dejima became known throughout Japan as a center of medicine, military science, and astronomy, and many samurai travelled there for "Dutch studies" (Rangaku).

The Vinegar Tasters: Laozi, Buddha, and Confucius. Dejima was a center for the trade of products and ideas, at the same time Japanese intellectuals studied scientific developments in Europe they sought to remain in touch with the political and social philosophy of Neo-Confucianism which flourished in Japan during the Edo period.In addition, the Opperhoofd was treated like the head of a tributary state, which meant that he had to pay a visit of homage to the Shogun in Edo. The Dutch delegation traveled to Edo yearly between 1660 and 1790 and once every four years thereafter. This prerogative was denied to the Chinese traders. This lengthy travel to the imperial court broke the boredom of their stay, but it was a costly affair to the Dutch. The shōgun let them know in advance and in detail which (expensive) gifts he expected, such as astrolabes, a pair of glasses, telescopes, globes, medical instruments, medical books, or exotic animals and tropical birds. In return, the Dutch delegation received some gifts from the shogun. On arrival in Edo the Opperhoofd and his retinue (usually his scribe and the factory doctor) had to wait in the Nagasakiya, their mandatory residence until they were summoned at the court. After their official audience, they were expected, according to Engelbert Kaempfer, to perform Dutch dances and songs etc. for the amusement of the shogunate. But they also used the opportunity of their stay of about two to three weeks in the capital to exchange knowledge with learned Japanese and, under escort, visit the town.


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New introductions to Japan
* Badminton, a sport that originated in India, was introduced by the Dutch during the 18th century.
* Billiards were introduced in Japan on Dejima in 1794.
* Beer seems to have been introduced as imports during the period of isolation.
* Clover was introduced in Japan by the Dutch as packing material for fragile cargo.
* Coffee was introduced in Japan by the Dutch under the name Moka.
* Piano. Japan's oldest piano was introduced by Siebold in 1823.
* Paint, used for ships, was introduced by the Dutch. The original Dutch name (Pek) was also adopted in Japanese (Penki/ペンキ).
* Cabbage and tomatoes were introduced in the 17th century by the Dutch.
* Chocolate was introduced between 1789 and 1801 and is mentioned as a drink in the pleasure houses of Maruyama.

Following the forcible opening of Japan by US Navy Commodore Perry in 1854, the Bakufu suddenly increased its interactions with Dejima in an effort to build up knowledge of Western shipping methods. The Nagasaki Naval Training Center, a naval training institute, was established in 1855 by the government of the Shogun right at the entrance of Dejima, allowing maximum interaction with Dutch naval know-how. The center was also equipped with Japan's first steamship, the Kankō Maru, given by the government of the Netherlands the same year.


The end - and reconstruction
The Dutch East India Company's trading post at Dejima was closed in 1857, once Dutch merchants were allowed to trade in Nagasaki City. Since then, the island has been surrounded by reclaimed land and merged into Nagasaki. Extensive redesigning of Nagasaki Harbor in 1904 has obscured the location. Edo-era boundaries of Dejima island (outlined in red) within the modern city of Nagasaki. In 1996, restoration of Dejima began with plans for rebuilding 25 buildings to their early 19th century state. To better display Dejima's fan-shaped form, the project anticipated rebuilding only parts of the surrounding embankment wall that had once enclosed the island. Buildings that remained from the Meiji Period were to be used. In 2000, five buildings including the Deputy Factor's Quarters were completed and opened to the public. In the spring of 2006, the finishing touches were put on the Chief Factor's Residence, the Japanese Officials' Office, the Head Clerk's Quarters, the No. 3 Warehouse, and the Sea Gate.

The long-term planning now anticipates that Dejima should again be surrounded by water on all four sides, which means that Dejima's characteristic fan-shaped form and all of its embankment walls will be fully restored. This long-term plan will involve a large-scale urban redevelopment in the area. If Dejima is to be an island again, the project will require rerouting the Nakashima River and moving a part of Route 499.

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** See: Museum (http://www.sieboldhuis.org/en/) Sieboldhuis, Leiden, Netherlands

Wonderfull Thread!
I like so much the mix of architecture european with tradional architecture of Asia:)

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Petrus en Paulus kathedraal, 1883

Paramaribo, Suriname


The Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral (Dutch: Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskathedraal) is a wooden Roman Catholic cathedral located in the center of the capital city of Paramaribo, Suriname. It is (claimed to be) the largest wooden building in South America, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paramaribo.

Construction of the cathedral began in 1883, on the site of a former theatre. The church interior is constructed from unpainted Surinamese cedar. Although it was consecrated in 1885, the towers were not completed until 1901. After a botched restoration in 1977, the building began to fall into disrepair, encountering problems with tilting and termites. The building was extensively restored and brought back to usable condition in 2002. With help of EU-funding, actual restoration of the cathedral began in 2007 and after 3 years the church was re-opened on the 13th of November 2010. Dutch-Surinamese priest Petrus Donders is buried in Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral.

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Malang

Java, Indonesia


Malang is the second largest city in East Java province, Indonesia. It has an ancient history dating back to the Mataram Kingdom. The city population at the present time is around 780,000. During the period of Dutch colonization, it was a popular destination for European residents. The city is famous for its cool air and the surrounding country regions of Tumpang, Batu, Singosari, and Turen. People in East Java sometimes call it "Paris of East Java." Malang was spared many of the effects of the Asian financial crisis, and since that time it has been marked by steady economic and population growth.
The city was incorporated into Mataram in 1614, then transferred to Dutch colonial rule. Malang was transformed under the Dutch; its cool climate which results from its elevation, along with its proximity to the major port of Surabaya, made it a popular destination for Dutch and other Europeans. In 1879, Malang was connected to Java's railroad network, further increasing development and leading to increased industrialization.


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Stadhuis/Town Hall

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The Mosque

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Malang East

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Krebet Sugar factory

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Unravelling the past

Sadras - Tamil Nadu, India

The Archaeological Survey of India restores a Dutch fort in the medieval settlement of Sadras on the Tamil Nadu coast.


Until a few months ago, it was just another ruin of a fort on the Coromandel coast, its history buried in mounds of sand and wild grass that was pasture for goats. Its two bombed-out warehouses had deep cracks running the length of their semi-vaulted roofs. Today, its Dutch past and the settlement called Sadras are being brought back to life by the conservation and excavation efforts of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).

Besides restoring the bombed-out portions of the warehouses or granaries, the ASI, Chennai, has rebuilt the four walls of the fort and unearthed artefacts that provide insights into the 400-year-old fort and its Dutch inhabitants. They apparently had a fondness for the muslin woven at Sadras, 75 km from Chennai, and a weakness for liquor and tobacco and played the local game "aadu-puli aattam" (goat-and-tiger game).

The 30 trenches that the ASI dug between February 7 and March 28 this year exposed, among other things, a beautiful well; a kitchen with chulas and ash intact; rooms with arched windows; an advanced underground drainage system; floors made of square, rectangular and hexagonal bricks; exquisite pieces of Delft blue crockery from Holland; Gouda (a town in Holland) smoking pipes with tobacco stains; glazed ware; crockery made in China, England and Germany; two arrack glass jars with residues of white arrack; and a circular structure (tank) for dyeing the muslin cloth.

"This excavation has led to a number of outstanding discoveries," said K.T. Narasimhan, Superintending Archaeologist, ASI (Chennai Circle), who headed the team of archaeologists. Of them were two rooms that had been buried under the sand adjacent to the warehouse on the northeastern side. One room was bigger than the other and they had arched windows. "The rooms have a well-paved brick floor and proper drainage," he said.

The excavation also threw up evidence of how the natives influenced the Dutch inhabitants of the fort. For one, the local Tamils taught the Dutch how to play "aadu-puli aattam"; the grid used to play the game, comprising rectangles and triangles, was found engraved on a well-burnt brick.

Another exciting find was a circular structure that was used for dyeing muslin cloth. Two broken quarters of the structures were exposed during the excavation. These had perfectly engineered channels meant to drain out the coloured water. With fine lime used to plaster them, these channels are in mint condition even today. "This is an important discovery and it has to be studied," said G. Thirumoorthy, Assistant Archaeologist.

Sadras is situated about 17 km from Mamallapuram and 2 km from Kalpakkam, the site of the Madras Atomic Power Station and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. According to Thirumoorthy, during the period of the Sambuvarayars (local feudatories under the Cholas), Sadras was called Rajanarayanan Pattinam after a Sambuvarayar chieftain who ruled the region between A.D. 1337 and 1367. An inscription dated 1353 refers to the place by the name. Vijayanagara period (15th century) inscriptions refer to it as Sadiravasagan Pattinam - a reference to the deity at the local Vishnu temple. This name got twisted to Sadurangapattinam and eventually was shortened to Sadirai. The English called it Sadras.

Sadras was a flourishing weavers settlement during the medieval period from 10th century to 16th century. According to Thirumoorthy, an inscription found in the Siva temple at Sadras made a reference to "kaikolar", as weavers are called in Tamil. They made the muslin cloth that attracted traders from all over the world, including Holland, and Sadras emerged as a flourishing trading centre. P. Jayakumar, Research Assistant in Tamil University, Thanjavur, notes in his book Thamizhaga Thuraimugangal (Ports in Tamil Nadu; Anbu Publishers, Thanjavur, 2001) that Sadras was an international port well before the Dutch arrived in the early 1600s and that muslin was its main export, besides pearl and edible oil.

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The Dutch East India Company chose to build a fort at Sadurangapattinam not only because it was a centre for trade in muslin, spices, and so on but also because it was free of political disturbances. The beach is less than 100 metres from the eastern wall of the rectangular fort. The massive defence wall runs on all sides with flanking bastions on the eastern side. (A bastion is a circular structure built to guard the fort, with cannons mounted on it.) The Dutch built two magazines, flanking the eastern side, to store ammunition. The entrance to the fort was on the western side, and the two cannons that were placed on either side of the gateway still stand. A watch tower was built just above this entrance.

Within the fort is a cemetery with exquisitely engraved granite tombstones, the inscriptions on them giving the details of the Dutch buried there. One tombstone has a beautiful bas relief of a vessel with sails, another is chiselled with a coat of arms, a third has a rose, and so on. The inscriptions on the tombstones tell tragic tales of the dead. They refer to "Hier rusten Mejuff Anna Cornelia Bonk... " or "Hier rust Corneila van Outvelt... " There are references to Nagapatnam and Palliacatt (Pulicat). The Dutch had built a church at Nagapattinam, and both a fort and a cemetery at Pulicat, about 40 km from Chennai. The tombstone inscriptions at Sadras date from A.D. 1620 to 1769. Near the cemetery is a "secret chamber", so called because it is built at ground-level and cannot be seen from outside. The warehouses are on the southeastern and northeastern corners of the fort. There are a number of structures, including rooms, dancing halls and dining rooms in the fort. The arrival of the English East India Company set the stage for a commercial conflict that soon escalated into a military confrontation. The English marked out the fort at Sadras, and eventually captured it in 1796. The fort was virtually razed to the ground in the massive bombardment from the sea, with the warehouses suffering extensive damages. The Dutch got back the demolished fort in 1818 under a treaty, but the English reoccupied it in 1854 and held it from then on. This brought to an end the Dutch era on the Coromandel coast, the English having pulled down the Dutch fort at Pulicat as well. The Dutch cemetery at Pulicat, however, survives to this today and is a protected monument.

The Asi took up the reconstruction of the outer wall of the fort sometime after 1991. In the last two years it turned its attention to the conservation of the warehouses. After 1991, the ASI reconstructed the fort wall on all four sides. In the last two years, it turned its attention towards conservation of the warehouses.

Narasimhan called restoring the crumbled warehouses "a major conservation effort." About 50 per cent of the warehouseardment/granary on the south-eastern side had been bombed and fallen to the ground. Even the remaining portions hung in a precarious condition because the bomb shells had fallen over its semi-vaulted roof.ardment was

According to S.K. Jilani Basha, Conservation Assistant, ASI, Mamallapuram, the roof had got separated in three pieces. Besides, it had broken in several places. There were vertical and horizontal cracks in the roof. The vertical wall of the warehouse was out of plumb due to the bombardment. The disjointed pieces of roof were joined by using `I` or `T' shaped steel plates in five places. Pue lime was brought from Pollachi (Tamil Nadu) and it was ground into a fine paste. Ninety-five per cent lime was mixed with 5 per cent cement (allowed in conservation efforts) in plastering. The warehouse was thus conserved. Basha said, "We were scared to touch this warehouse. We took six months to restore it. It was a challenging job. This was a major conservation work."

Narasimhan was proud that the ASI was able to "conserve the warehouse without removing a single brick, by introducing the stainless steel teeth in the dome and by unifying its different broken portions as one unit,. People seeing it now will not believe that it had disintegrated in several pieces more than two centuries ago."

To their delight, they found a well, a kitchen with three chulas and ash intact, and rooms whose floors were made of rectangular bricks, square bricks, hexagonal bricks and even dressed granite slabs. The floors of a couple of rooms were paved with a mosaic of rectangular, hexagonal and square bricks, which created patterns. Basha praised the quality of the bricks used in the construction of the fort or the floors. "This fort was built essentially of bricks. These are very good bricks, of first class quality."

Hundreds of porcelain pieces too were found. They include the stunningly beautiful Delft Blue porcelainware, used by the Dutch aristocrats who lived in the fort. A piece of Delft blue porcelain shows Dutchmen wearing hats sitting on a bench, another shows tents pitched in Holland, and yet another a coat of arms. Delft is a town in Holland and it has been in existence prior to A.D. 1246. It is renowned all over the world as the city of Delft Blue pottery. In the 17th century, many small pottery factories came up there in buildings that originally housed breweries. Delft was one of the home ports of the Dutch East India Company. The Company also started returning from China with loads of porcelain. That explains the discovery of exquisite Chinese porcelain at this Dutch fort. A piece of such porcelain is truly interesting. It shows a Chinese Christian, holding a Cross and addressing the audience from the pulpitpiece . Yet another broken piece has Chinese characters on it. A porcelain has the manufacturer's stamp on it: "... ohrson Brothers, England." Another is made in Germany.

A valuable find was two glass arrack jars or bottles, with deposits of imported white attack. Porcelain with matted design - beautiful to look at - was found as well. This looks like a local terracotta but it is not.

Another discovery was several broken pieces of Gouda smoking pipes. They are in various sizes. These pipes were made in Holland, using pure white clay. Some of them have manufacturers' stamp, and burnt tobacco stains on them, to boot. The picturesque town of Gouda is in the southern province of Holland. There were many factories in Gouda, which started manufacturing clay pipes. Later, they diversified into making "Gouda style" of pottery. The Dutch at Sadras led a good life, dancing, drinking white arrack and smoking quality tobacco !

Thirumoorthy said, "The Dutch who lived in the fort used very little local ware. They brought almost everything with them (from Holland and other parts of the world." What is astounding is the use of advanced underground drainage system in the fort. There are drains leading from different directions and they meet in the northeastern corner in a massive collection chamber, located beneath the floor of the bigger warehouse. From the collection chamber, water is drained out of the fort into the sea.

While conserving the warehouse on the northeastern side, the ASI stumbled on the rainwater harvesting method used by the Dutch. The rainwater collected in the roof of the warehouse came down two pipes, on either side of an arched window. But the pipes were camouflaged like pillars and so it looks a piece of ornamentation! Narasimhan said, "The excavation will continue in future. Hopefully, the world will know more about the Dutch."

link to the article (http://hindu.com/fline/fl2010/stories/20030523000106500.htm)

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Link to: aerial view (http://wikimapia.org/117059/Sadras-Dutch-Fort)

Wow amazing pictures and like has been said before, very informative. I'm amazed at how well preserved some of the buildings are on the first page in the Dutch Antilles. Great thread!

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This can be very helpful to a lot of people. There's so much to learn about this. I'm going to recommend my friends to read it too. Thanks for the knowledge you've shared with us :)

What are pictures of buildings left behind by German immigrants in Chile doing in a thread about colonial Dutch architecture?

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Groot Constantia (built: 1685)

Cape Colony/South-Africa


Groot Constantia was established in 1685 by the VOC Governor of the Cape of Good Hope Simon van der Stel, and was used to produce wine as well as other fruit and vegetables and cattle farming. Following Van der Stel's death in 1712 the estate was broken up and sold in three parts: Groot Constantia; Klein Constantia; and Bergvliet). In 1778 the portion of the estate surrounding Van der Stel's Cape Dutch-style manor house was sold to the Cloete family, who planted extensive vineyards and extended and improved the mansion by commissioning the architect Louis Michel Thibault. The house remained in the possession of the Cloete family until 1885, during which period the estate became famous for its production of Constantia dessert wine.

In 1885 Groot Constantia was purchased by the government of the Cape of Good Hope and was used as an experimental wine and agricultural estate. Following a disastrous fire in 1925 the house was extensively restored.In 1969 the manor house became part of the South African Cultural History Museum, and in 1993 the estate passed into the ownership of the Groot Constantia Trust. The exhibition in the house is managed by Iziko Museums of Cape Town, and is particularly focused on rural slavery and the life of slaves during the early Cape colonial period.

Groot Constantia is noted particularly for its production of high-quality red wines, including Shiraz, Merlot and blended red Gouverneurs Reserve. In 2003 the estate began production of a Constantia dessert wine, called Grand Constance, for the first time since the 1880s.

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Anton Anreith (June 11, 1754 – March 4, 1822) was a sculptor and woodcarver from Riegel near Freiburg in Breisgau, Baden, Germany, who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as a soldier in the service of the Dutch East-India Company in 1777. Although he was a trained sculptor, his was initially employed as a carpenter but in 1780, the Lutheran community commissioned him to carve a pulpit for their new church in Strand Street, Cape Town. He also carved the door of the neighbouring parsonage. In 1786, he was appointed master-sculptor to the Dutch East India Company.

From 1781, he worked closely with the architect Louis Michel Thibault. His first project with this architect was the Cloete wine-cellar at Groot Constantia for which he designed an elaborate baroque pediment, The Rape of Ganymede, a depiction of the myth of the youth, abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle, who became cup-bearer to the Greek Gods. In 1789 they were joined by Hermann Schutte, an architect and builder from Bremen and the three of them had a profound influence on the development of Cape Town architecture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His works include the De Kat Balcony at the Castle of Good Hope, the Koopmans-De Wet House, and the Huguenot Memorial Museum in Franschhoek. In addition to his sculpture and plaster-work, Anreith made a living teaching life drawing and geometry. He was also head of the first art school in South Africa which was founded by the Freemasons. He became a Freemason in 1797 as a member of the Loge de Goede Hoop. He died in Bloem Street, Cape Town, unmarried and in poverty.

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Matara Starfort

Matara, Sri Lanka


The 18th century fort was named "Redoute (Fort) van Eck" after Lubbert Jan Baron van Eck, the Dutch governor at the time. The decorated gate bears a date of 1763, the fort's name, the Dutch coat of arms, and - within its lunette-shaped pediment - the insignia of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The fort's moat is crossed by a chain-operated drawbridge. Projecting beams, from which the chains run out, appear halfway up the gate in this photo. The Dutch kept crocodiles in the moat, as a deterrent to potential attackers or escapees.


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Matara is located close to the most southern point of Sri Lanka and its about 170 kilometres away from Colombo. The city has a history going back over 2000 years but the modern Matara becomes an important city only during the Dutch occupation as it was used as a main port for the exportation of cinnamon and elephants. The dutch completed the main Matara fort around 1640 but found it to be vulnerable from attacks coming from land during the matara rebellion when the Singhalese forces backed by Kandyan Kingdom took hold of the fort in 1762. The dutch managed to take back the fort and built a another on the west bank of the Nilwala River to protect the main fort form attacks originating from the river.

This fort was built to an unique shape of an six pointed star with space for 12 large cannons to cover approaches from all directions. The fort was surrounded by an deep moat and was built to hold a small garrison, food supplies and enough ammunition. It also had a two prison cells and a well in the centre to supply water. On the arch of the main entrance the year 1765 is embossed (year of construction) along with the VOC emblem and the coat of arms of Governor Van Eck. Currently it houses a museum and the fort has been restored to a great extent to show its ancient glory.

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Goree Island (Goeree eiland)

Senegal

1617-1677: 60 years


The Dutch are said to have bought the island from a local chief for a trifling amount and took control over the island in 1588. Gorée became a way station for Dutch ships plying the route between their forts on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and the caribbean West Indies. The Dutch named the island after the Dutch island of Goerée. or according to some—for its sheltered harbor, “Goode Reede” (good harbor).

The Slave House: Built in 1776 by the Dutch, the slave House is one of several sites on the island where Africans were brought to be loaded onto ships bound for the New World. The owner's residential quarters were on the upper floor. The lower floor was reserved for the slaves who were weighed, fed and held before departing on the transatlantic journey. The Slave House with its famous "Door of No Return" has been preserved in its original state. Thousands of tourists visit the house each year.

The Castle: Originally built by the Dutch in the 17th century, the fortress has been razed and reconstructed several times. In the 18th century it housed the residence of the Governor of Senegal and in 1940 it was bombarded by a combined British and Free French naval force.

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As one would expect, there's a lot in Nieuw Amsterdam a/k/a NYC!

Here are a few.

Wykoff House 1651
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Lent-Riker House 1654
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John Bowne House 1661
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^^

Thanks! See page 2 of this thread for more New-Netherlands/New York State houses. ;)

@ElGreco

There are so many books on this subject - you just have to specify. There are many books about the Spanish and Portuguese voyages of discovery and equally plenty about the Dutch.

Any non-fiction book with blood and guts will do (ie wars and such).

:)

@ElGreco

Just some quick references:

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Dash: Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia's_Graveyard)

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (http://www.amazon.com/Island-Center-World-Manhattan-Forgotten/dp/1400078679/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313920318&sr=1-12)

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Multatuli: Max Havelaar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar)

Witt, Dennis de, 2007. - History of the Dutch in Malaysia.
Subang Jaya: Nutmeg Publishing, 2007. - 272 p.: [en]
(Malaysian Heritage Publications)
ISBN 978-983-43519-0-8
Written in the perspective of a Malaysian Dutch descendant, Dennis De Witt, who is the co-ordinator of the Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project, it gives a comprehensive and never before narrated story about the history of the Dutch in Malaysia and the Malaysian Dutch community.

Slot, B.J., 1992. - Abel Tasman and the discovery of New Zealand.
Amsterdam: Otto Cramwinckel, 1992. - 126 p.: [en]
ISBN 90-71894-355

Wesseling: Divide and Rule (http://www.amazon.com/Divide-Rule-Partition-Africa-1880-1914/dp/0275951383)



On Dutch colonial architecture:

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C.J. van Dullemen, Boom uitgevers Amsterdam, ISBN: 13 9789085068792


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Auteur: Emile Leushuis, Uitgever: KIT Publishers, ISBN: 978 94 6022 1220

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Batavia/Jakarta

Java, Indonesia


Colonial buildigs list - collection of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam


The first Dutch ships arrived in Jayakarta on Java in 1596 and they built a fort. When relations between Prince Jayawikarta and the Dutch deteriorated, Jayawikarta's soldiers attacked the Dutch fortress. Prince Jayakarta's army and the English were defeated by the Dutch, in part owing to the timely arrival of Jan Pieterszoon Coen (J.P. Coen). The Dutch burned the English fort, and forced the English to retreat on their ships. The victory consolidated Dutch power and in 1619 they renamed the city "Batavia." The former Stadhuis of Batavia, the seat of Governor General of VOC. The city began to move further south as epidemics in 1835 and 1870 encouraged more people to move far south of the port. By 1930 Batavia had more than 500,000 inhabitants, including 37,067 Europeans. During the World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to "Jakarta" (short form of Jayakarta) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.

Year -Population

1870 65.000
1880 102.900
1895 114.600
1905 138.600
1918 234.700
1925 290.400
1940 533.000
1945 600.000
1950 1.733.600 (Independence Dec.1949)
2010 9.588.198


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Office of the Nederlandsch Indische Escompto Maatschappij.(architect: Eduard Cuypers, 1920)

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The Javasche Bank (Architects: Eduard Cuypers and Hulswit, 1909)

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Office of the Postspaarbank, Weltevreden. (Architect: R.L.A Schoenmaker, 1920)

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Main entrance of the Kota trainstation (Architect: F.J.L. Ghijsels, 1926)

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Traffic on the square in from of the Kota trainstation, 1929

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Square in front of the train station, 1938.

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Building of the NHM at Batavia. (Architects: Ir. J.F.L. Blankenberg, Wolff Schoemaker, Ir. Fermont/Eduard Cuypers, built in 1929)

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Headquarters of the Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (Now Royal Dutch Shell).

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Central Post Office (Architect: J. van Hoytema, 1913)

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The railwaystation of the State Railway Company in Tandjong Priok, 1930. (Architect: C.W. Koch, 1914)

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Tanjun Priok, the large seaport of Batavia.

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Koningsplein-square railway station.

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Headquarters of the Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij (KPM) at the Koningsplein-Oost, 1916

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Telephone Office at the Koningsplein.

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Office of Geo. Wehry & Co, 1918. Leeuwinnegrachtstraat.(Architect: Ir. F.J.L Ghijsels, 1927)

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The Post and Telegraph Office on the 'Stadhuisplein' (Town Hall Square).

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Thee St. Josefskerk and the Ursulinen convent at Meester Cornelis.

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H.B.S. (High School) 'Het Groote Klooster' in the Noordwijk-district

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Steam trams at the building of the hardware factory of Carl Schlieper, 1915.

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French Consulate at the Koningsplein square.

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The old office of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM) at the Sluisbrug, 1870.

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The office of the Chartered Bank at the Kali Besar canal, 1915.(Architect: Eduard Cuypers)

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Medical University builing in Weltevreden, 1937.

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Hospital located in the house of painter Raden Saleh, 1890. (Built, 1852)

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View of the Central Medical Laboratory.

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Central Civil Hospital.

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Building of the Dutch East Indies Council at Weltevreden

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Hotel des Indes.

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Dining room of the Hotel des Indes.

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Hotel des Indes.

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Hotel des Indes.

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The yearmarket Pasar Gambir

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Pavilions at the Pasar Gambir in Batavia

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The 'Uitkijk' watchtower, Batavia

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A72-129&size=large) - Het Schippershuis - asylum for old naval officers, 1865

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A42-1-1&size=large) - Trading Office, 1875

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Street view with an office of the NHM and advertisements.

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Trade companies along the Kali Besar canal in the Chinese district.

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Branch of the Factory of the NHM along Molenvliet in Noordwijk. (Architect: Eduard Cuypers, 1910)

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NILLMIJ building in Jakarta. (Architect: P.A.J.Moojen & S. Snuyft, 1909)

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The museum of the 'Stichting Oud Batavia' at Stadhuisplein square 39.

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Horse-drawn carts pass the large cathedral at the Waterlooplein square. (Built in 1901)

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The 'Amsterdamse Poort' in the old city-centre.

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The Town Hall in the old city center built in 1710 (3rd building)

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Daendels Palace.

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Military parade in front of the statue of Jan Pietersz. Coen at Waterloo-square during the coronation celebrations of Queen Wilhelmina, 1898.

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The Artesian well at Salemba, 1885.

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The Artesian well at the Koningsplein square, 1885.

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The City Theatre, 1865

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The 'Landsarchief' - the colonial archives, housed in a former country house built around 1760


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A typical Chinese house.

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The shop of 'Eigen Hulp' at the Molenvliet-West canal, 1890.

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Building in the botanical gardens and zoo.

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Bathing kids in the Molenvliet canal next to 'De Harmonie' society builing. (Architect: J.C. Schultze, 1815)

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A42-1-5&size=large) - 'De Harmonie' society building, 1875.

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The Aceh monument at the Koningsplein square

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The protestant Willemskerk, 1875.

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Museum of the Society for Arts and History. (Built in 1862)

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Military Society on the east side of the Waterlooplein square, corner Sipajersweg-road.

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:PKL01:MM-1752&size=large) - Military Society Concordia.

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:SFA03:SFA002014242&size=large) - Weltevreden Palace at the Koningsplein square, 1880.

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KITLV01:29051&size=large) - Soldiers in front of a 'watch-house' of Weltevreden Palace, 1880.

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Audience-hall in the Palace

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The Palace (back), 1875.

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palace interior

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Volksraad or Council of the Indies Building or Raad van Indië (founded in 1918).

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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KITLV01:11689&size=large) - Parapattan 1890

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www.geheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A41-1-20&size=large) - Private estate, 1856-1878.

Thanks for those, Nemo.

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City Hall/Balai Kota

Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia


Medan City Hall (Gedung Balai Kota) is located on Jalan Balai Kota (City Hall Street), Medan, North Sumatra. It was built during the Dutch East Indies era in 1908 by Hulswit & Fermont, and updated in 1923 by Eduard Cuypers (nephew of Pierre Cuypers), architect of other notable colonial buildings in the Indies.[1] The City Hall is kilometre zero in Medan, and was originally built for De Javasche Bank (now Bank Indonesia), but was instead purchased by the City Council of Medan. Its bell was donated in 1913 from the Tjong A Fie Mansion. Medan City Hall is now overshadowed by the giant three-skyscraper 'Grand Aston City Hall' hotel-office-retail complex, situated just behind it.


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Weblink: medan.m-heritage.org (http://medan.m-heritage.org/about_medan/4.html)

Nemo: do you have any idea if there is anything left of those wonderful colonial buildings in present day Jakarta?

^^ I was thinking the same thing. Do those buildings still stand?

@PhillyBud

Thanks for the pictures - that's a beautiful neighbourhood you live in.

The buildings in the first picture have Russian elements - certainly no Dutch.
Firstly I must say congratulations for a very interesting thread that you've created. I'm curious to know why you say that this picture has Russian elements. Surely an onion shaped gable doesn't make it Russian? In fact I see more 'Dutch colonial' forms in the architecture than Russian, and if anything it should be termed eclectic, which would be a mix of styles to the architect's and client's particular tastes.

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@RD77
See page 1 of the thread for colonial buildings in Jakarta that survived. Most buildings still exist, but while some of them are a in perfect condition, others are refurbished or in a bad state. The artesian wells, the Amsterdam Gate, the Harmonie building , Military Society Concordia and the NHM at the Molenvliet canal have been demolished.

@Skymantle
Thanks! But to answer your question: the roofs, the style of bricks, the veranda's, gable, decorations, the whole structure - no Dutch elements whatsoever. There's are many typical Dutch style elements and none of those can be found in these twin houses in Philadelphia. Not to be rude, but it happens quite a lot that Americans adopt the word 'Dutch' in the wrong architectural context, since they hardly know the difference between Dutch, Flemish and German styles. Equally, I can't find anything on this 'Dutch style elements' in here (http://ilovebricks.blogspot.com/2011/02/economics-of-architecture-and.html) or in an overall search check via google on Spruce Street + Dutch, Holland or Netherlands. It's all about Victorian houses. ;)

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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:ANP01:10734405&size=large)- St.Anna bay



Willemstad

Curacao, Kingdom of the Netherlands


The island of Curaçao was occupied by the Dutch in 1634. The Dutch West India Company founded the capital of Willemstad on the banks of an inlet called the 'Schottegat'.

See: www.curacaoarchitecture.com


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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KIT02:60028748&size=large) - Governor's Palace - Fort Amsterdam, 1880's

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www.hetgeheugenvannederland.nl (httphttp://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KIT02:60054131&size=large) - Freemason's Lodge 1880's

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interesting

The church of Malacca is originally Portuguese, and was then restored by the Dutch, if I am not mistaken!

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Colonial heritage in Surabaya

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Jakarta's urban heritage gains an audience.

History buffs are struggling to preserve a colonial core dating back to 1619, but now in a state of near ruin.

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As a history undergraduate, Kartum Setiawan liked nothing better than to walk alone through the streets of this city's crumbling colonial quarters, armed with old maps and a vivid imagination. He pictured the Dutch merchants rowing their boats along the canals. In a cobbled square, he recalled the trams that came in the 19th century, opening up new suburbs to the south.

Today, Mr. Setiawan's day job allows him to keep one foot in the past: He serves as director of a bank museum in Jakarta's historic Kota district. He also runs an amateur history club, one of several that have sprung up in the city in recent years, as interest in urban heritage has grown. Every few months, he organizes a nighttime tour of the district on old-fashioned black bicycles, serenaded by vintage songs playing on a chunky tape recorder. "This is part of our integrity as a nation, to understand our history. As a way of learning, it's much easier to see objects visually than to read about them in books," he says.

Most visitors to Indonesia's sprawling capital see only the modern trappings of its postwar boom. Jakarta's rich history is harder to unpeel than that of cities like Singapore and Bangkok, where restored colonial-era buildings draw hordes of foreign tourists. In fact, Jakarta is much older: founded in 1619 by Dutch traders who built a walled city called Batavia on the north shore of Java Island. It became the capital of the Dutch East Indies, a far-flung possession that declared independence in 1945.

Modern Jakarta – as it was renamed in 1942 – has turned its back on the past, leaving parts of its colonial core in a state of near ruin. Developers shun these areas, focusing on new neighborhoods in the south of the city. As a result, nearly 80 percent of 284 historic buildings are classified by city authorities as being in poor condition, the Jakarta Post reported.

Blocks from Setiawan's museum is a tantalizing glimpse of the past. Along a stinking canal, rows of colonial-era buildings fester under the afternoon sun. Erected as banks and trading offices by European and Chinese merchants, some are shuttered and dilapidated. Others have rotting wooden balconies and sagging roofs. Grimy minibuses throttle down the streets. Setiawan and other local history enthusiasts who want to save these long-neglected streets from ruin face a daunting task. City authorities have their hands full providing services to Jakarta's 14 million or more people, many of them struggling to make a living. City Governor Fauzi Bowo has paid lip service to the need to conserve historic sites and attract more tourists, but there's little new money available.

Mr. Bowo has also proposed tapping private foundations for help and inviting creative industries to set up in areas like Kota as a way to revive its fortunes. But that is impossible as long as the building owners have no real incentives to preserve their character, says Tamalia Alisjahbana, executive director of the National Archives Building Foundation.

Heritage laws forbid additions to listed buildings, so private landlords often let their properties fall into disrepair so they can be knocked down, rather than invest in their upkeep. Many other colonial buildings were nationalized after independence, but the government bureaucrats in charge are economic planners, not culture officials, and aren't keen on expensive restorations. "The Finance Ministry looks at all buildings as financial assets. They don't take into account their historical status," says Ms. Alisjahbana.

Bank Mandiri Museum, where Setiawan works, is different. A private Dutch bank that was nationalized in the 1950s, it was converted into a museum in 2005 by the government-owned Bank Mandiri. Visitors enter an elegant, old-fashioned banking hall of marble-topped counters bathed in light from stained-glass windows. The 1929 building faces an art deco railway station from the same period that's still used.

Setiawan isn't deterred by Kota's decay or the sticky politics of conservation. He sees hope in the busloads of schoolchildren in his museum and the popularity of cultural tours in the area. "People used to pass these buildings without noticing them. After they join our activities, then they really become aware of them," he says. From only 50 visitors a day when it opened, the museum now sees 200 a day. Setiawan's history club has 5,000 members, mostly students and professionals who pay $5 to join the historical walks. In his spare time, he has begun a master's program in museum studies and is working on a book on Jakarta's old mosques.

One handicap to Indonesian historians who study this heritage is that most colonial archives are stored in Holland and are in written Dutch, a language that few here can speak. In recent years, universities have added Dutch classes for history majors. This reflects a renewed academic interest in colonial times, after decades of government-mandated teachings that emphasized political nation-building. By delving fully into the past – and taking care of its physical remains – a young nation can start to understand its destiny, says Asep Kambali, who runs another history club. "What is Indonesia? Who are we? Only history can tell us this," he says.

Source: www.csmonitor.com (http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2008/1230/p07s02-woap.html)(December 30, 2008)

great thread!! really interesting!!

Beautiful stuff and informative

Beautifull!

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Curaçao

Netherlands Antilles


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:drool: :applause:

European architecture and tropical climate = awesome!

Colombo

Sri Lanka


Old Dutch Hospital, a shopping complex
Athapattu BANDARA

The Old Dutch Hospital in Fort has been turned into a sophisticated shopping complex without harming its archaeological and architectural value by the Urban Development Authority (UDA). It will be opened tomorrow by Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa and Defence and Urban Development Ministry Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. The ancient Dutch Hospital which had been abandoned for a long period was transformed into a shopping complex under the Colombo Development Scheme initiated on the directives of the Defence Ministry.

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Very interesting thread and a recognizable architecture.

Article:
Article by Pauline van Roosmalen on urban planning in the Dutch East Indies in: 'The Newsletter' nr. 57, van het IIAS.

Designing colonial cities: the making of modern town planning in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia 1905-1950 (http://www.iias.nl/sites/default/files/IIAS_NL57_070809.pdf)

Far-reaching socio-economic changes caused by burgeoning private enterprise,
in combination with new insights and demands in terms of hygiene, infrastructure,
architecture and town planning; emerging anti-sentiments among growing numbers
of indigenous inhabitants; and the direct confrontation of administrators with local
issues: together these provided a prolific setting for the making of modern town
planning in the Dutch East Indies in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Office of the assistant-governor in Tasikmalaja

Tasikmalaya

Java, Indonesia


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Bamboo Eiffeltoren inTasikmalaja Java, in honour of the crowning of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898

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G.F.J. Bley: underlying traffic bridge of a railway bridge in Tasikmalaja

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Manonjaja Mosque - Tasikmalaya

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Hotel Centraal Tasikmalaja

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Manonjaja Mosque - Tasikmalaya

Fort zeelandia

Suriname


Built by British colonists (Fort Willoughby) in 1651 around a small trading post. It was captured by the Dutch and given its present name and form of typical Dutch architecture in 1667.



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Lost Beauty

Former Nederlandsch Indische Levensverzekering en Lijfrente Maatschappij (NILLMIJ) - building (1859)

Jakarta, Indonesia


Then

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Jiwasraya Insurance office, formerly the NILLMIJ (Jakarta, Indonesia), whose facade has been transformed into a modernist style, possibly because of road widening. Earlier rationalist style can still be traced at the side of the building.

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Kasteel de Goede Hoop

Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika



Built by the Dutch East India Company between 1666 and 1679, the Castle is the oldest colonial building in South Africa. It replaced an older fort called the Fort de Goede Hoop which was made out of clay and timber and built by Jan van Riebeeck upon his arrival at the Cape in 1652, in addition to two redouts Redout Kyckuit and Redout Duijnhoop, which were built at the mouth of the Salt River in 1654. The purpose of the Dutch settlement in the Cape was to act as a replenishment station for ships passing the treacherous coast around the Cape on long voyages between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

During 1664, tensions between Britain and the Netherlands rose with rumours that war was imminent. That same year, Commander Zacharias Wagenaer, successor to Jan van Riebeeck, was instructed by Commissioner Isbrand Goske to build a pentagonal fortress out of stone. The first stone was laid on 2nd January 1666. Work was interrupted frequently because the VOC was reluctant to spend money on the project, but on 26th April 1679, the five bastions were named after the main titles of William III of Orange-Nassau: Leerdam to the west, with respectively Buuren, Katzenellenbogen, Nassau and Oranje clockwise from it.

Sketch of Castle of Good Hope Courtyard in 1680. In 1682, the gated entry replaced the old entrance which had faced the sea. A bell tower, situated over the main entrance, was built in 1684 — the original bell, the oldest in South Africa, was cast in Amsterdam in 1697 by the East-Frisian bell-maker Claude Fremy and weighs just over 300 kilograms. It was used to announce time, as well as warning citizens in case of danger, since it could be heard 10 kilometers away. It was also rung to summon residents and soldiers when important announcements needed to be made.

Inside, the fortress housed a church, bakery, various workshops, living quarters, shops and cells, among other facilities. The yellow paint on the walls was originally chosen because it lessened the effect of heat and the scorching sun. A wall, built in order to protect citizens in case of an attack, divides the inner courtyard which also houses the well-known De Kat Balcony which was designed by Louis Michel Thibault with reliefs and sculptures by Anton Anreith. The original was built in 1695, but rebuilt in its current form between 1786 and 1790. From the balcony, announcements were made to soldiers, slaves and burghers of the Cape. The balcony leads to the William Fehr collection of paintings and antique furniture.


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The famed Kat Balcony, with its sculpture by Anton Anreith, is certainly the most beautiful aspect of the Castle.

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I think I still have some photos from Stellenbosch, Paarl, Robertson, Cape Town, Windhoek and other small places of South Africa as well as Namibia somewhere. I shall post them when I find them!

^^
Great, let em come :)


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Former freemason Lodge by architect Ghijsels.

Taman Suropati, Menteng - Jakarta, Indonesia


The Freemason Lodge was built in 1925. It has two-storey lodge building which a long square frontage. Originally, in the entrance frontage had words “ADHUC STAT”, now replaced by title of “BAPPENAS”. Also, there were masonic-design and decorations in outside the building such as the try-square, compasses, and hammer. However, that signs was disappeared. The BAPPENAS or Board of National Planning and Development has housed in the former lodge.



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Whole article: My Odyssey (http://mahandisyoanata.multiply.com/journal?&page_start=20)

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Semarang

Java, Indonesia


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Military barracks

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Chinese house

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Kids in dancing costumes, Kebun Dalem

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Katholieke Sociale Bond building

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View at the river and the old Dutch East India Co.-built watchtower in Semarang.

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Group portrait of the employers at the office of the ANIEM

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Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij office building

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Int. C.- en H.V. "Rotterdam" office building

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Heerenstraat

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Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank

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The Chinese pavillion at the Colonial Exhibition

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The residentie-office

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N.I.L.L.Maatschappij office building

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Streetvendors (warungs) in front of a Chinese temple

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Women play the gamalan at the penitentiary for women

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Ox drawn cart at the Wilhelmina-square

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The Bodjong street and the Gouverneurskantoor-building

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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:KITLV01:2727&size=large)

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Blogspot Link (http://fariable.blogspot.com/p/semarang-dalam-kenangan.html)

SSC-link Semarang (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1174265&page=20)

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Pensionaat Franciskanessen, Bangkong

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Kali Baroe

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De Haven

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This pasar or market was built after a design by Ir. Herman Thomas Karsten (1884-1945)

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Pasar Djohar

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Pasar Djohar

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Arrival of Governor-General B.C. de Jonge at Semarang airfield

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Municipal office

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Hotel du Pavillion

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group of people in front of the Heerenlogement (Hotel)

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Villa Bodjong Gimberg

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The William Booth Hospital

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Kanarielaan

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Picture by diajtz x) at Flickr (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6552866545_8a37c0a453_b.jpg) - The old post office and Javasche Bank building.


Jogjakarta

Java, Indonesia



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Surabaya

Java, Indonesia


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Picture by Ersta Andantino at Flickr (http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5258/5449119695_620f1ecbf3_b.jpg) - building by achitect Berlage

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Dutch East India Co. hospital (1670's?)

Colombo, Sril Lanka


Built as a hospital by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), it has been used for several different purposes, over the years. It is believed to have existed since 1681, as recorded by German Christoper Schweitzer. The Dutch established the Colombo hospital to look after the health of the officers and other staff serving under the Dutch East India Company. The hospital's close proximity to the harbour allowed it to serve Dutch seafarers. Most patients were provided with a mat, while the most ill were given a mattress. Patients clothing was imported from Tuticorin, India. The surgeon with the longest service at the Colombo hospital was Alleman. Alleman sought to improve conditions at the hospital, including increasing provisions. The most famous of all the surgeons who worked in the Colombo hospital was undoubtedly Paul Hermann, who served from 1672-79. Herman has been described as the father of botany in Sri Lanka.

Paintings from the era show that it once had a canal running along what is now Canal Row lane. This canal was filled in by British colonists after their capture of the city.

Post IndependenceThe building was the Colombo Fort Police Station from the early 1980s to 1990s, prior to which it housed the Colombo Apothecaries. It suffered heavy damage in the LTTE attack that followed the Central Bank bombing in 1996. In 2011, it has been transformed into a shopping and dining precinct, where the historic architecture has been preserved.

The building reflects seventeenth-century dutch colonial architecture.

The building has five wings forming two courtyards. It is designed to keep out the heat and humidity and provide a comfortable environment within. Like many Colombo Dutch buildings of the era, the walls are 50 cm thick. The structure features massive teak beams. The upper floor is located in the front wing and can be reached with a wooded staircase. This upper storey has a wooden floor. A long open veranda runs along the length of each wing of the building.

Paintings of the front and rear views of the Colombo hospital, done in 1771 by a Dutch artist - presumably Johannes Rach - are preserved in the KITLV at Leiden, in the Netherlands. These show that the building has changed little.

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Read more in this (http://groundviews.org/2011/12/10/old-dutch-hospital-in-colombo-now-open-to-the-public/) article.


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Check this (http://medan.m-heritage.org/index.html) website: Medan - understanding heritage


And check this (http://medan.m-heritage.org/results/medan150.html) link for a large database with pictures on the architectural heritage in the city of Medan (Sumatra, Indonesia).

Designing colonial cities: the making of modern town planning in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia 1905-1950

Pauline K.M. van Roosmalen - Delft University of Technology

IIAS: The Newsletter | No.57 | Summer 2011


Link to Article in PDF (http://www.iias.nl/sites/default/files/IIAS_NL57_070809.pdf)


www.iias.nl


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Link (http://niehorster.orbat.com/016_netherlands/maps/Soerabaja%201920.gif) to more maps of the Dutch East Indies at the website Niehorster.orbat.

Was Soerabaja an important town to the Dutch during that time, compared to Batavia for example?

^^

Certainly - Surabaya, became the second largest in the Dutch East Indies after Batavia.
"Surabaya became a major trading center under the Dutch colonial government, and hosted the largest naval base in the colony". ;)

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Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij

Noordwijk, Batavia, Indonesia


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djawatempodoeloe (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/CrashingAlien/DSCN0877.jpg) - Today...

really nice

^^
Thenks! :)


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Strand street / Buitengracht

Kaapstad, South-Africa


The Lutheran Church is one of the oldest Protestant churches in South Africa, consecrated in 1787. The bell tower was added in 1818. In 1771, Martin Melck gave his fellow Lutherans permission to hold services in his barn in Strand Street. A few years later, consent was given to convert the barn into the Lutheran Church. The church's carved pulpit by Anreith has become famous. Melck had set aside land next to the church for a parsonage, though it was only after his death that it was built. Designed by Anreith, Martin Melck House is the only surviving example of an 18th century townhouse complete with dakkamer (roof-room). On the other side of the church is the Sexton's House, built in 1787. It is now restored and serves as the Netherlands Embassy.


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The history of Martin Melck. (http://www.muratie.co.za/index.php?id=47)

A virtual tour of New-Netherland (http://www.nnp.org/vtour/regions/Manhattan/fort-amsterdam.html) (New-York)

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Palembang

Sumatra, Indonesia


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The estate of the Chinese family Djoen Eng

Salatiga, Java, Indonesia


Bron: www.salatiga.nl (http://www.salatiga.nl/tempo-doeloe/djoen-eng-2/index.htm)

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Buitenzorg Palace/ Istana Bogor

Java, Indonesia


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Hi, I'm a great admirer of old Dutch Colonial era architecture. Being the citizen of Surabaya, I would occasionally marvel the impressive architectural style of these old buildings.

However, there is one building that recently struck me. That is this PTPN XI building.

Honestly, this building seemed to fit for a railway station too....

@Bagus70

A special building indeed :)


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Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam NV / PT Perkebunan Nusantara XI

Hulswit, Fermont & Ed. Cuypers architects, 1911-1921

Surabaya, Indonesia



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Link (http://travitecture.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/discovering-surabaya/)

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Willemstad

Curacao, Netherlands Antilles


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Picture by MDTubio at Flickr (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7244/6891072982_a729b984a5_b.jpg) - An old building awaiting restoration, marked 1754.

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Quarantainehuis by architect Antoine Martis, 1874

Caracasbaai, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles


Built in 1882 this house functioned as one of the parts of the quarantine station at the fortress of Fort Beekenburg.
Healthy seamen coming on disease carrying ships were quarantined here for forty days. This lasted until 1925 and nowadays this beautiful house with a splendid view over the Caribbean Sea is in severe disrepair.



* The quarantaine house and the nearby fortress will be restored: Link (http://www.caracasbaai.org/?tag=quarantainegebouw)

* Spatial plan (http://www.amiguditera.com/C_BAY_PUBLICATIE_30mei10_ver05.pdf?bcsi_scan_B0A38A178AE5B708=0&bcsi_scan_filename=C_BAY_PUBLICATIE_30mei10_ver05.pdf) of the peninsula, fortress and quarantaine building.



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Surabaya

Java, Indonesia


List of buildings collection - Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands and the National Museum of Ethnology at Leiden



Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million (5.6 million in the metropolitan area), and the capital of the province of East Java.
The expanding East Indies Companies took the city over from a weakened Sultanate of Mataram in November 1743.
Surabaya became a major trading center under the Dutch colonial government, and hosted the largest naval base in the colony.


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Javasche Bank office

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Office buildings at the Willemskade langs de Kali Mas

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Shopping street Gemblongan

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The Handelstraat

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New gouverneur-office, built in 1930.

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Town Hall built between 1920 and 1925

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Office of the ANIEM

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Office of the Koloniale Bank.

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Office of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam N.V.

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Pasar Besar with the office of Pröttel

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Building Centrale Burgerlijke Ziekeninrichting (CBZ) Hospital

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Telegraph Office in the Sociëteitsstraat.

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Post Office

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Dutch East Indies School for Physicians, designed by ir. Wiemans

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Building of Naval Club 'Modderlust'

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Pasar Besar

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Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM)

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Orphanage

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Central Train Station

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Old Post Office

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Officers pavillion of Surabaya hospital

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Old City Theatre

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The Mosque

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Office of the Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij

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Port Authority Office and Wilhemina-tower

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Entrance gate of 'De Volharding Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen anno 1857 door F.J.H.Baijer'.

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Military Canteen

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Old building of Naval Club 'Modderlust'

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Sociëteit Concordia (left)

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N.V. Photografisch Atelier Kurkdjian.

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House of mr. Boesch.

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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:MHM01:F931128&size=large) - Oranje Hotel

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Office Nuts Spaarbank

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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A122-3-49&size=large) - Grimm&Co

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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A122-3-42&size=large) - The Red Bridge and the Old Governors Office

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Het geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:VKM01:A111-3-30&size=large) - House of the Dutch Resident (Governor)

See this link (http://dewey.petra.ac.id/spektra/module/surabaya/docs/directory.php?subtheme=2) for more buildings and info.

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National Museum (Fmr. Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap)

Jakarta, Indonesia


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On April 24, 1778, a group of Dutch intellectuals established a scientific institution under the name Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, (Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences). This private body had the aim of promoting research in the field of arts and sciences, especially in history, archaeology, ethnography and physics, and publish the various findings.

One of the founders – JCM Radermacher – donated a building and a collection of cultural objects and books, which were of great value to start off a museum and library for the society. Due to the growing collections, General Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles built a new premises on Jalan Majapahit No. 3 at the beginning of the 19th century and named it the Literary Society. In the 1862 the Dutch East Indies government decided to build a new museum that would not only serve as an office but also could be used to house, preserve and display the collections.

The Museum was officially opened in 1868 and popularly known as Gedung Gajah (Elephant Building) or sometimes called Gedung Arca (The house of Statues). It was called Gedung Gajah on account of the bronze elephant statue in the front yard – a gift to Batavia from King Chulalongkorn of Siam in 1871. It was also called Gedung Arca because a great variety of statues from different periods are on display in the house.

The peristyle (inner courtyard) of the National Museum, features Doric order Greek architecture.In 1931, the museum's collections were shown in a world cultural exhibition in Paris. Unfortunately, a fire in the exhibition hall demolished the Dutch East Indies' exhibition pavilion and destroyed most of the objects. The museum received some insurance money as compensation and the following year these funds were used to build the old ceramics room, the bronze room, and both treasure rooms on the second floor.

On February 29, 1950 the institution became the Lembaga Kebudayaan Indonesia (Indonesian Culture Council). On September 17, 1962 it was handed over to the Indonesian government and became known as Museum Pusat (Central Museum). By decree of the Minister of Education and Culture No. 092/0/1979 May 28, 1979 it was renamed the Museum Nasional.

In 2007, a new building to the north side of existing building was opened, featuring many artifacts from prehistoric times to modern times. This new building, called Gedung Arca (Statue Building), provides a new exhibition wing. The old building is named as Gedung Gajah (Elephant Building).

The museum has a collection of 61,600 prehistoric and anthropological artifacts, and 5,000 archeological artifacts from all over Indonesia and Asia. The museum collections is among the richest, the most complete, and the best of its kind in Indonesia and one of the finest in Southeast Asia.


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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:NFA02:cas-10339-5&size=large)


Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/55398965@N04/with/6236453393/#photo_6236453393) to DKI's Flickr pics of buildings in Jakarta

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Hospital RSUP Hasan Sadikin - Bandung


Algemeene Bandoengsche Ziekenhuis

Bandung, Indonesia

This hospital was originally established by order of a Dutch General in 1810. It is evidence again of the influence that foreigners had in Bandung, during the Colonial era. It is hard to deny the contributions of the Dutch during their occupation. Bandung can today boast of many legacies turned heritage, and Rumah Sakit Hasan Sadikin isjust one of them. Perkumpulan Vereniging Bandoengsche Ziekenhuis (Bandung's Hospital Association), of which half of the members were Dutch doctors, was founded in 1914. Shortly after the Association was established, the members initiated the develoPment of Bandung's General Hospital. It began to take shape in 1917, and the development of the hospital was complete in 1919. Soon after, the Dutch colonial government inaugurated the hospital with the original official name, Algemeene Bandoengsche Ziekenhuis (Bandung's General Hospital).

When Bandung became a municipality in 1927, the hospital was then renamed Rumah Sakit Gemeentelijk Juliana (Juliana Municipality Hospital). However, in relation to its location, the hospital was more popularly known as Rancabadak Hospital. Today, the Rancabadak Hospital, now known a's Hasan Sadikin Hospital, is noted as the largest, and perhaps the oldest hospital in Bandung. The Dutch Architect, F.J.L Ghijsels, designed Hasan Sadikin Hospital using an IndoEuropean architectural style. The distinctive feature of explicit blending between Indonesian and Colonial architecture, is noticeable if you look at the limasan?style roof, atop the Colonial style building. Like most other Dutch properties, the building fulfilled two of the typical aims of Dutch Colonial Architects the construction is elegant, and it appears to have been designed to blend in with its surrounding environment.

Rumah Sakit Hasan Sadikin is located on JI. Pasteur, the street that used to be famous for its lush landscaping, and Colonial ambience. Today, JI. Pasteur is no longer lush. It is bustling with traffic. However, some European properties from the Dutch Colonial era, including the Pasteur Institution, and the Dana Mulia Foundation, havebeen maintained, and the street stitt retains some Colonial ambience. Most certainly, Rumali Sakit Hasan Sadikin has an interesting history. Soon after the Japanese occupied Bandung, the hospital was closed to the public. It was only used to treat Japanese troops, and the name was changed to Rumah Sakit.Tentara Ryukugun Byoin. (Ryukugun Byoin Troop's Hospital). When the Dutch returned to Bandung in 1945. the hospital was reserved for military personnel and renamed the Dutch Military Hospital.

In 1948, a few years after Indonesia's I ndependence, the building's original purpose was restored, and it was reopened to the public. On 24' July 1956, it was officially inaugurated Rancabadak. Hospital (Bandung's General Hospital) by the Minister of Health. Many years later however, on 8" October 1976, it was renamed Rumah sakit Umum Dr. Hasan Sadikin,in honourof Dr.Hasan Sadikin, the Director of the hospital from 1965 to 1967. He was in fact, one of the founders of the School of Medicine at Padjadjaran University. Without a doubt, he was instrumental in improving Bandung's Public Health services. With the growth of the City's population in the 21" century, and the increasing demand for medical services, the hospital has been necessarily extended. Consequently, a newly refurbished building, with a modern day architectural style, has been erected on A Prof. Eyeckman, behind the old building.

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Sources: http://www.okeaja.com (http://www.okeaja.com/pariwisata/hasansadikin.html) and http://www.informasi-bandung.com (http://www.informasi-bandung.com/2012/06/rumah-sakit-hasan-sadikin.html)




Here (http://smandelbdg85.com/gallery-bandung-tempo-dulu.html#) - another nice link to bandung heritage now and then.

WELKOM IN MALANG (INDONESIA)

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GEMENTE HUIS, MALANG

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URSULIN, MALANG

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CATHEDRAL CHURCH

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CONCORDIA BUILDING

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NEUTRALE LAGERE SCHOOL

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NIAGARA HOTEL

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IDJEN BOULEVARD MALANG (Now Days)

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@Er-Zi

Brilliant contribution! :cheers:


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Office of the Staasspoorwegen Railway Co, Bandung

Java, Indonesia

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More pictures of Bandung on DjawaTempoDoeloe (http://djawatempodoeloe.multiply.com/photos/album/190)

@Er-Zi

Brilliant contribution! :cheers:




Dank U Broer

MALANG, Oost JAVA

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IDJEN BOULEVARD

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CONCORDIA BUILDING / NOW-SARINAH BUILDING

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TJELAKET STRAAT

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BUILDING ON TJELAKET STRAAT

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MALANG CATHEDRAL CHURCH

thank you for the information! this is a helpful one especially on my class.

Lembang/West Java: Bosscha Space Observatory

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Padang City/West Sumatra:

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Gorontalo Province: Fort Otanaha

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Pontianak City/West Borneo Province
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First sundial build by dutch in west borneo.
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Old cathedral saint Yoseph in Pontianak city, they replace it with new one b'coz this building is over capacity.
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Semarang City

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Great photos :) I love colonial architecture

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Supreme Court of the Dutch East Indies (Hooggerechtshof, 1824) now Supreme Court of Indonesia (Mahkamah Agung) - Jakarta.


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Daendels Palace (1809) at the former Waterlooplein (sekarang Lapangan Banteng), Jakarta.


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Buitenzorg Palace (1744) fmr residence of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, now presidential palace of Indonesia (Istana Bogor)


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Het Geheugen van Nederland (http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:RIJK01:SK-A-4025&role=image&size=large)

Buitenzorg palace after an earthquake in 1837. Painting by Willem Troost, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

You know what, after reading your postings, I am thinking of making HO scale (1:87 scale) of PTPN XI building in Surabaya. I was wondering if the technical drawing of this building exist?

@Bagus

I don't know, maybe you could post this question in the 'Surabaya' thread of the Indonesian forum (?)

Willemstad, Curacao

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Picture by cookinghamus' at Flickr (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7223/6943317446_8158485d18_b.jpg) - Fort Amsterdam

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Bandung

Java, Indonesia


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Former office of 'Het Noorden' newspaper, now Gedung Kantor Suara Merdeka (jalan merak)

Semarang

Java, Indonesia


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^^ That must be "Coveted East Indies" film, right?

^^ That must be "Coveted East Indies" film, right?

It contains large parts of that documentary but this video is upscaled to 1080p and heavily edited. So now you can see the details of the buildings much clearer and additional background information is presented in real-time.

^^ Only the music added. No narration.

^^ Incorrect, I never said it was narrated in audio btw, additional background information about the buildings is given in a subtitle/CC kind of way.

Amazing collection of overseas Dutch history !

Nice, i want to see more pics.

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Semarang, a City Walkthrough (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8jurwROLS1s/TTy1QGhu5ZI/AAAAAAAACF4/5oPhq0iiYhE/s1600/gkbi-07.JPG)


De Willemskerk

Semarang, Indonesia

The Dutch Willemskerk of Western Indonesia, better known as Blenduk Church (Gereja Blenduk) is a Protestant church in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. Built in 1753, it is the oldest church in the province.Blenduk Church, at 32 Letjen Suprapto Street in the old town of Semarang, Central Java, is located in a small courtyard between former office buildings. The Jiwasraya building is located to the south, across the street, while the Kerta Niaga offices are to its west.

The octagonal church, built on a stone foundation and with single-layer brick walls, has its ground floor at street level. It is topped by a large, copper-skinned dome, from which it gets its common name; the Javanese word mblenduk means dome. The dome is supported by 32 steel beams, 8 large and 24 small. Two towers, square at the base and slowly rounding until topped with a small dome, are located on either side of the main entrance, while a cornice consisting of horizontal lines runs around the building; Roman-style porticoes covered in saddle-shaped roofs are located on its eastern, southern and western faces. Blenduk also features etched and stained glass windows, as well as wood-panel double doors at the south-facing entrance. The wooden pews inside Blenduk have rattan seats, while the pulpit is completely made of wood and located on an octagonal platform made of teak A nonfunctional Baroque pipe organ from the 1700s is also located inside. The floor is covered in black, yellow, and white tiles. In the northern part of the interior is a spiral staircase, etched with name of its manufacturer, Pletterij den haag (Rolling Mill, The Hague), which leads to the second floor.

Blenduk was established in 1753; the initial building had a joglo-style. Although meant for Protestants, Catholics also used it until the first Catholic church in the city was built. The church was later rebuilt in 1787. Another re-imagining, spearheaded by H.P.A. de Wilde and W. Westmas, began work in 1894. During this renovation, the dome and two towers were added. Another series of renovations began in the early 2000s. As of 2004, the church has 200 families and holds regular Sunday services; it is also a tourist attraction.


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Semarang, a City Walkthrough (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8jurwROLS1s/TTy1QGhu5ZI/AAAAAAAACF4/5oPhq0iiYhE/s1600/gkbi-07.JPG)

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Semarang, a City Walkthrough (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8jurwROLS1s/TTy1QGhu5ZI/AAAAAAAACF4/5oPhq0iiYhE/s1600/gkbi-07.JPG)


Other buildings.....


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Gedung bank Mandiri

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Vereenigde Javaasche Houthandel Maatschappijen

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Link to Blog (http://smgpras.blogspot.com/search/label/heritage)

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Neo-colonial architecture in Sri Lanka

The Dutch House, Bandarawela, Sri Lanka


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Old Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

Former city hall of Batavia, now the Fatahillah Museum / Jakarta History Museum / Batavia Museum (Jalan Lada)

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Raadhuis/Town Hall Makassar (now museum)

Celebes, Indonesia

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how come the dutch didn't make little netherland like curacao at Indonesia?

^^

Very good question.

Even though the Dutch East India Company (VOC) did not really care for the aesthetical value of buildings at first, the Dutch actually did create a 'little Netherlands' in Batavia/Jakarta. Late 17th century Batavia was praised being the Asian version of Amsterdam with canals, bridges, canal houses and palaces. Unfortunately nothing is left from this period because the living conditions in the old city deteriorated and the city was expanded three times inland. The old kota was largely demolished and what is left are just a few examples like the old VOC Town Hall and a typical Dutch draw-bridge. This story is more or less the same for other VOC towns like Semarang.

The Caribbean style is all the same a different colonial style. The Dutch in the East were influenced by the Portuguese colonial style with inevitable adaptions for the tropical climate. Avaliable building material and local styles also influenced the desiging process. The typical Dutch step-gable architecture as we know it from the 17th century was still adapted in 18th and 19th century Caribbean styles, while in the Dutch East Indies, 'modern' tastes like the more formal neo-classicistic or empire styles were prevalent, followed by 20th century 'Indische Stijl' hybrid buildigs and modern styles like Art Deco.

Willemstad Curacao is beautiful and charming, but from an architectural stance one could argue that it's hopelessly old-fashioned - and survived through time because in the 19th century the Dutch Caribbean was a lot less wealthier than the Indies. Once poor cities are generally considered the best preserved. ;)

But that's just the story in a nutshell.

thank you for the reply
here are some photos i found in the forum
~Heritages~

Note : apakah posting ~Heritages~ ini masih masuk kriteria streetscape / urban landscape di thread ini ?

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Jakarta
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