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GOUDA (or TER GouwE)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 280 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOUDA (or TER GouwE)  , a See also:town of See also:Holland, in the See also:province of See also:South Holland, on the See also:north See also:side of the Gouwe at its confluence with the Ysel, and a junction station 122m. by See also:rail N.E. of Rotter. See also:dam . Pop . (1900) 22,303 . Tramways connect it with Bodegraven (51m . N.) on the old See also:Rhine and with Oudewater (8 m . E.) on the Ysel; and there is a See also:regular steamboat service in various directions, See also:Amsterdam being reached by the canalized Gouwe; See also:Aar, Drecht and Amstel . The town of See also:Gouda is laid out in a See also:fine open manner and, like other Dutch towns, is intersected by numerous canals . On its outskirts pleasant walks and fine trees have replaced the old fortifications . The Groote Marla is the largest See also:market-square in Holland . Among the numerous churches belonging to various denominations, the first See also:place must be given to the Groote Kerk of St See also:John . It was founded in 1485, but rebuilt after a See also:fire in 1552, and is remarkable for its dimensions (345 ft. See also:long and 150 ft. broad), for a large and celebrated See also:organ, and a splendid See also:series of over See also:forty stained-See also:glass windows presented by cities and princes and executed by various well-known artists, including the See also:brothers See also:Dirk (d. c.1577) and Wouter (d. c . 1590) Crabeth, between the years 1555 and 1603 (see Explanation of the Famous and Renowned Glass See also:Works, Es'c., Gouda, 1876, reprinted from an older See also:volume, 1718) .

Other noteworthy buildings are the See also:

Gothic town See also:hall, founded in 1449 and rebuilt in 169o, and the weigh-See also:house, built by Pieter See also:Post of See also:Haarlem (1608—1669) and adorned with a fine See also:relief by See also:Barth . Eggers (d. c . 169o) . The museum of antiquities (1874) contains an exquisite See also:chalice of the See also:year 1425 and some pictures and portraits by Wouter Crabeth the younger, See also:Corn . Ketel (a native of Gouda, 1548—1616) and See also:Ferdinand Bol (1616-168o) . Other buildings are the orphanage, the See also:hospital, a house of correction for See also:women and a See also:music hall . In the See also:time of the See also:counts the See also:wealth of Gouda was mainly derived from See also:brewing and See also:cloth-See also:weaving; but at a later date the making of See also:clay See also:tobacco pipes became the See also:staple See also:trade, and, although this See also:industry has somewhat declined, the See also:churchwarden pipes of Gouda are still well known and largely manufactured . In See also:winter-time it is considered a feat to skate hither from See also:Rotterdam and elsewhere to buy such a See also:pipe and return with it in one's mouth without its being broken . The mud from the Ysel furnishes the material for large See also:brick-works and See also:potteries; there are also a celebrated manufactory of stearine candles, a See also:yarn factory, an oil refinery and See also:cigar factories . The transit and See also:shipping trade is considerable, and as one of the See also:principal markets of South Holland, the See also:round, See also:white Gouda cheeses are known throughout See also:Europe . Boskoop, 5 M . N. by W. of Gouda on the Gouwe, is famous for its nursery gardens; and the little old-See also:world town of Oudewater as the birthplace of the famous theologian See also:Arminius in 156o .

The town hall (1588) of Oudewater contains a picture by Dirk Stoop (d . 1686), commemorating the See also:

capture of the town by the Spaniards in 1575 and the subsequent See also:sack and See also:massacre .

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