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Hoorn (other)
Hoorn is a city in North Holland, the Netherlands. Hoorn may also refer to: Places * Hoorn, Heerde, Gelderland, Netherlands * Hoorn, Friesland, Netherlands * County of Horne, or Hoorn, a county of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Netherlands and Belgium * Hoorn Islands, South Pacific islands named after the city of Hoorn People with the surname * Jordanus Hoorn (1753–1833), Dutch painter * Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930–1991), American figurative artist active in Canada See also * Horn (other) Horn most often refers to: *Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ... * Den Hoorn (other) * Van Hoorn, a surname {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoorn Dutch-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoorn
Hoorn () is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of Alkmaar and 35 kilometers (22 mi) north of Amsterdam. The municipality has just over 73,000 inhabitants and a land area of , making it the third most densely populated municipality in North Holland after Haarlem and Amsterdam. Apart from the city of Hoorn, the municipality includes the villages of Blokker and Zwaag, as well as parts of the hamlets , De Hulk and . Hoorn is well known in the Netherlands for its rich history. The town acquired city rights in 1357 and flourished during the Dutch Golden Age. In this period, Hoorn developed into a prosperous port city, being home to one of the six chambers of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Towards the end of the eighteenth century, however, it started to become in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heerde
Heerde () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. Compared to the rest of the Netherlands, Heerde is fairly religious, as are many of the towns and cities in the Veluwe region. Population centres Politics The municipal council consists of 17 seats, which have been divided as follows since 2018: * CU- SGP - 4 seats * CDA - 4 seats * Municipal Interest Farmers Party Heerde - 3 seats * VVD - 2 seats * D66- GL - 2 seats * PvdA - 2 seats Sport The municipality has five amateur soccer clubs: vv Heerde, SEH, WZC Wapenveld, vv Wapenveld and Vevo. Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Heerde, June 2015.'' Notable residents * Daniël de Clercq (1854 in Heerde – 1931) a Dutch socialist and activist * Hendrik Jan van Duren (1937 in Heerde – 2008) a Dutch politician. * Marijke Abels (born 1948 in Deventer) a Dutch visual artist, one of her sculptures is at the roundabout of the A50 junction in Heerde Sport * Jaap Zielhuis (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoorn, Friesland
Hoorn ( fry, Hoarn) is a village on Terschelling in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl .... It had a population of around 465 in January 2017. - Terschelling Sources *Municipality guide Terschelling 2005-2006References Populated places in Friesland Terschelling { ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Horne
Horne (also ''Horn'', ''Hoorn'' or ''Hoorne'') is a small historic county of the Holy Roman Empire in the present day Netherlands and Belgium. It takes its name from the village Horn, west of Roermond. The residence of the counts of Horne was moved from Horn to Weert in the 15th century. After the execution in 1568 of Philip de Montmorency who died without male heirs, the Prince-Bishop of Liège, as suzerain of Horne, was declared the direct lord and new count. The bishops ruled the county in personal union. Horne maintained its own laws and customs as well as its financial autonomy. The county included the communes of Neer, Nunhem, Haelen, Buggenum, Roggel, Heythuysen, Horne, Beegden, Geystingen and Ophoven.Bulletin de la Commission centrale de statistique, Brussels, 1857, vol. 7, p. 136. It was suppressed in 1795, when it was occupied by the French, and it became part of the French département Meuse-Inférieure. Rulers of Horne Lords of Horne * Engelbert de Hurne, * Enge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoorn Islands
The Hoorn Islands (also Futuna Islands) are one of the two island groups of which the French overseas collectivity (''collectivité d'outre-mer'', or ''COM'') of Wallis and Futuna is geographically composed. The aggregate area is 115 km², and the population 4,873 (census of 2003). History The archipelago was named by the Dutch navigators Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, who, in 1616, became the first Europeans to visit the islands. They named it after the Dutch city of Hoorn, from which their expedition had started. They had previously rounded and named Cape Horn on the same voyage; Schouten had been born in Hoorn. Geography Geographically, there are two islands: * Futuna Island (in the northwest) (83 km², pop. 4871) * Alofi Island (in the southeast) (32 km², pop. 2) Administratively, the Hoorn Islands encompass two of Wallis and Futuna’s three royal chiefdoms, namely: * Tu`a (Alo), which comprises Alofi Island and the eastern part of Futuna Island (area 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordanus Hoorn
Jordanus Hoorn (1753–1833) was a painter and drawing teacher from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Hoorn was born and died in Amersfoort. According to the RKD he was the son of a cloth merchant who became a pupil of the landscape painter Gerrit Toorenburgh and who worked in Haarlem 1772-1795, including a period as drawing master for the ''Tekenschool voor Kunstambachten''.''Tekenschool voor Kunstambachten'' means ''Drawing school for Art professions'', which was probably a part of the ''Oeconomische Tak'' of the Dutch Society of ScienceJordanus Hoorn in the In 1795 under French rule, he returned to Amersfoort where he was appointed city drawing master. His pupils were |
Carol Hoorn Fraser
Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930–1991) was an American-born figurative artist who worked for thirty years in Nova Scotia, Canada. Biography Carol Hoorn Fraser was born on September 5, 1930, in Depression-era Superior, Wisconsin. Her father, Arvid Hoorn, was a Swedish-American Lutheran pastor who built the family home and three churches himself. Her mother, Hazel, from an English tradition, did needlework, had an M.A. in Home Economics, and supported the family after Rev. Hoorn died of cancer in 1945.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Fraser attended Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, graduating in 1951 with a major in chemistry and biology and a minor in art and literature. After a year as a research chemist at Archer Daniels Midland in St. Paul, she audited theology lectures at the University of Göttingen, Germany (1952†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horn (other)
Horn most often refers to: *Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, either the "true" horn, or other horn-like growths ** Horn, a colloquial reference to keratin, the substance that is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals Horn may also refer to: Audio * Horn loudspeaker * Vehicle horn ** Train horn Personal name * Horn (surname) * Freyja, also known as ''Hörn'', a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death Places * Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America * Horn of Africa, a peninsula in northeast Africa * Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria ** Horn, Austria, a small town, capital of the Horn District * Horn, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Horn, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Hoorn (other)
Den Hoorn can refer to: * Den Hoorn, South Holland, a town in the municipality Midden-Delfland in the province South Holland in the Netherlands. * Den Hoorn, North Holland, a town on the island Texel in the province North Holland in the Netherlands. * Wehe-den Hoorn, a merger of the village Wehe and Den Hoorn. * a former village in South Holland; now part of Zoetermeer. See also * Horn (other) * Hoorn (other) Hoorn is a city in North Holland, the Netherlands. Hoorn may also refer to: Places * Hoorn, Heerde, Gelderland, Netherlands * Hoorn, Friesland, Netherlands * County of Horne, or Hoorn, a county of the Holy Roman Empire in present-day Netherlands ... {{disambig fr:Hoorn (homonymie)#Den Hoorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Hoorn
Van Hoorn is a Dutch toponymic surname. The place of origin often is the city of Hoorn in North Holland, but may be any of four other Dutch settlements named Hoorn, three named Den Hoorn, or Horn/the county of Horne in Dutch Limburg. at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands. Notable people with the surname include: * (1600–aft.1660), Dutch mayor of Haarlem portrayed by Frans Hals * Arnold II van Hoorn, misspelling of Arnold van Horne (1339–1389), Dutch bishop * |
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