Goejanverwellesluis, Hekendorp, Netherlands

The Goejanverwellesluis is a

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. The 'Goejannen' - the men from the surrounding

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s who went to sea - said their last farewells by this channel. According to the tradition, Wilhelmina of Prussia, wife of stadholder

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was captured here on 28 June 1787 by the Patriots from Gouda. In reality, her entourage were arrested at

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on the

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, on the way to

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near

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. Wilhelmina was at a farm overhanging the Goejanverwellesluis, where Cornelis Johan de Lange, commander of the

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of Gouda, had been billeted. Informed of her plans by the gentleman Martinus van Toulon, former

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of Gouda, the Commission of Defense stopped her from driving on to Gouda that night. The princess left the very same evening after 10pm in the direction of Schoonhoven and turned back to her spouse stadholder William V at

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. This event formed the main reason for the Prussians' raid into Holland, with

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coming to his sister Wilhelmina's aid and so making possible William's return to

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. This raid led to an exodus of the Patriots from the United Republic of the Seven Netherlands in 1787. A foot ferry at Goejanverwellesluis was replaced by the Wilhelmina van Pruisen Bridge in 1992.

Literature

*Wildschut, A., Goejanverwellesluis; de strijd tussen patriotten en prinsgezinden, 1780-1787 (2005; ) *Smit, dr.mr.J., Een regentendagboek uit de achttiende eeuw, Oudheidkundige kring "Die Goude", 1957 *Meddens-van Borselen, Drs. A., "Ik zal dit in uwe ogen doen druipen". Holland, page 197-206 (1987; ISSN 0166-2511) *Meddens-van Borselen, Drs. A., National Archive of the Netherlands, No. 3.01.48, The archive of De Commissie van Defensie te Woerden, 1787 {{Coord, 52.014, N, 4.811, E, display=title, source:nlwiki Patriottentijd Buildings and structures in Utrecht (province) History of South Holland Locks of the Netherlands Oudewater