The Barteljorisstraat is a shopping street in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

that connects the Grote Markt to the Kruisstraat.

History

The street is a main shopping street linking the

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to the Grote Markt. It runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side of the Grote Markt linking Heemstede to Schoten, and is one of the oldest streets in Haarlem. The streets in Haarlem were formally named and given signboards in 1876.De straat waarin wij in Haarlem wonen; geschiedenis en verklaring der Haarlemse straatnamen,

G. H. Kurtz Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989) was a Dutch historian, writer and archivist. She published under the name, G.H. Kurtz. Early years Gerda Kurtz was born in Amsterdam, and moved to Haarlem with her family at age seven. She studied at a girls' ...

, 1965 At that time it was considered to be named after a certain "Bartel Jorisz", but the street has been registered in 14th and 15th century documents as the "Batte Joris straat", which could be named after a woman named "Batte Jorisdr". In the 1827 Nautz map of Haarlem, the street is also called "Batte Joris straat". The street contains several

rijksmonument A rijksmonument (, ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. At the end of February 2015, the Netherlands ...

s, including the

Ten Boom Museum The Ten Boom Museum is a museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands, dedicated to ''The Hiding Place'', the subject of a book by Corrie ten Boom. The house where the museum is located was purchased and restored in 1983 by the Corrie ten Boom Fellowship, a ...

at number 19 dedicated to the memory of

Corrie ten Boom Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family member ...

and her family, who harbored Jews and other political refugees during World War II."The Hiding Place", by

The Dutch version of Monopoly includes three streets of Haarlem including the Barteljorisstraat, the Zijlweg, and the "Houtstraat" which refers to the

Grote Houtstraat The Grote Houtstraat is a shopping street in Haarlem that connects the Grote Markt to the Houtplein in the direction of the Haarlemmerhout woods. History The street runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side ...

and the Kleine Houtstraat. All four of these streets are shopping streets today that connect pedestrians from the north, west and south to the Grote Markt. Halfway down the street is a small statue commemorating

Malle Babbe ''Malle Babbe'' is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted ''c.'' 1633-1635, and now in the Gemäldegalerie, in Berlin. The painting has also been titled as ''Hille Bobbe'' or the ''Witch of Haarlem''. It was traditionally ...

by Kees Verkade.

External links

Barteljorisstraat, Haarlem - straatinfo.nl
(archived)

References

{{Commonscat, Barteljorisstraat, Haarlem Streets in Haarlem