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=========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "History" 2008.02.29 (08) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1fmi" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="3">>> From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
>> Subject:
</font><font size="3">LL-L "History" 2008.02.28 (01) [E]<br></font><font size="2"><font size="2">>> I'm still packing out after my move from the
Antwerp to the Brussels area.</font></font></font></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">If I happen to find more, I will post it in the coming
days.</font></div></div></div></div></div>
<div>> <font size="2">Some real pictures from the Antwerp house of the
Hanse:</font></div></div>
<div><font size="2">> 1861 </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant1.jpg</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">> 1875 </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant2.jpg</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">> and comments </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant3.jpg</a></font></div></div>
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</div><div><font size="2">I found 2 other fotos in</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Antwerpen voor de lens, een greep uit de fotoverzameling van
het MAS</font></div>
<div><font size="2">(exhibition in the Hessenhuis from Oct 15 - till Nov
2005)</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant7.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant7.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">p 60, by Hugo Piéron-Loodts, undated but apparently with the
inner court covered (after 1884)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">cf <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/fotant3.jpg</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant8.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant8.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">p 61, by Hugo Piéron-Loodts 1876</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Position of the Hanzehuis (nr 14) on an old map (West is on
top) </font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant1.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The canals ("<strong>vlieten</strong>" are there) but the
<strong>bassins</strong> West and East (Top and Bottom on the map) not
yet.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">The caption for <strong>nr 14</strong> on the map is
"<strong>Der Oosterlingenhuys</strong>".</font></div>
<div><font size="2">(I don't understand why it is apparently
masculin)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">The map from 1566-1566 is by Pauwels van Overbeke</font></div>
<div><font size="2">scanned from p. 78 in:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Rutger Tijs, Antwerpen, atlas van een stad in ontwikkeling,
2007, Lannoo, Tielt</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Similarily in the same book:</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant4.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant4.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">dates from 1565 (anonymous, but after a design by Virgilius
Bononensis, Antwerp, Plantin Moretus Museum) </font></div>
<div><font size="2">In the book p. 54-57 and 59-62</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">One recognises also the house on a picture dating from the
secession war</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant5.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant5.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">I included the text in the scan.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">In the same book p. 190-191 a fragment from a painting by
Lucas van Uden (first half of 17th century) of the area in front of the
Hanzehouse. The painting is in the Antwerp "Museum voor schone
kunsten".</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant2.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The paper wrap around this book gives an excerpt from a
panoramic view. One recognizes the Hanzehouse at the backside of the
book.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant3.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant3.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">A more complete version is on p2+3+4+5+6+7 in the book. The
part we scanned is also on p.3</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Aquarel/pendrawing by Hans Bol dates from ca 1570-1575
and is conserved in Bremen in the Kunsthalle.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">One more modern maps:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">1805 (by Ambroise Tardieu)</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant6.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/ant6.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">between the <strong>2 (new) bassins</strong>, later the
<strong>Bonaparte dok and the Willemdok</strong></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">On the place of the former Hanzebuilding the MAS (Museum aan
de Stroom = National Maritime Museum) is being constructed.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://www.mas.be/" target="_blank">http://www.mas.be/</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">I think the picture is live when you open the page / at the
bottom right you can get repetitive live refreshments in a window..</font></div>
<div><font size="2">The National Maritime Museum is momentarily still in the
"Steen"</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><a href="http://www.antwerpen.be/smartsite.dws?ch=BEN&id=19436&rec=5064" target="_blank">http://www.antwerpen.be/smartsite.dws?ch=BEN&id=19436&rec=5064</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Steen is though is much too small for the maritime
collection, and, due to small turning stairs inside, inaccessible for
handicapped people.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">See also <a href="http://www.eilandje.be/" target="_blank">http://www.eilandje.be/</a> (a restauration
and area saving project)</font></div>
<div><font size="2">with map <a href="http://www.eilandje.be/stratenplan/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eilandje.be/stratenplan/index.htm</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The Hanze building was mid between the Willemdok and the
Bonapartedok (before the 2 "bassins")</font></div>
<div><font size="2">On the top left, corner of Montevideostraat and Rijnkaai
(Northern part of the Rijnkaai starting from the Montevideo
straat) were the buildings of the <strong>Red Star line</strong>, an important
emigration line to North America. Cf. <a href="http://www.redstarline.be/" target="_blank">http://www.redstarline.be/</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Other URLs:</font></div>
<div><font size="2">The port of Antwerp is at: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.portofantwerp.com/asp/start_pagina.asp" target="_blank">http://www.portofantwerp.com/asp/start_pagina.asp</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2"> New site in prep <a href="http://www.portofantwerp.be/" target="_blank">http://www.portofantwerp.be/</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The municipality of Antwerp is at: </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.antwerpen.be/" target="_blank">http://www.antwerpen.be</a></font></div>
<div><font size="2">The province of Antwerp: <a href="http://www.provant.be/" target="_blank">http://www.provant.be/</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Also over land to the Baltic:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">I think we discussed the "Teuten" (travelling salesmen from
Lommel) earlier regarding their relation to the Rineland. They also had a
line over land to the Baltic (16th till beginning of 20th century):</font></div>
<div><font size="2">cf cover of a book about it</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/baltic.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/baltic.jpg</a></strong></font></div>
<div><font size="2">published in 2004 by the Dexia bank, 176 pp</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Roger<br><br></font></div></div>
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