{"id":71,"date":"2011-08-13T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westra.vc5.nl\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-10-06T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:12:35","slug":"trip-to-westra-hotspots-in-the-north-of-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westra.info\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Trip to Westra hotspots in the North of the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last weekend (6 and 7 august) Sil land I went to Assen to find out \nmore about our ancestors. Elly, Otto, Herman and Louise  where here \nbefore. You can read their stories in our Guestbook<\/a>.\n First to go was \u2018Huize Boschlust\u2019.This is the mansion where Harmen \nWestra have lived. But in the time of Harmen there was a lot of ground \nwith it. It is still standing, but it has had a major makeover. They \nhave made a very ugly enlargement. Nevertheless Sil made a couple of \nnice photo\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as our knowledge goes all of the children of Harmen where born\n here. As Sil mentioned; very strange feeling that our ancestors have \nlived here. There is a cemetery across the street. This cemetery is very\n large and quit new. We knew we would never find any graves of our \nfamily. But we took a couple of minutes of our time to walk through it \nanyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onward to the city centre of Assen. There was a small market going \non, and we have seen some nice old houses there. The nice thing of Assen\n is that the canal also ends \/ starts in the hart of the small city \ncentre. And that was our destination. Because Heike Westra has build his\n house the \u2018Huis met de Vazen\u2019 on the canal next to his soap factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We rang the bell land the family gave us a warm welcome. They gave us\n a tour through the house. We even took a photo of the first brick. They\n even had a basement, which is quite special for such an old house next \nto a canal. The sealing ornaments in the hall were beautiful and \ncompletely  original. The funny part was that the family thought that \nthe decorations on the outside of the house where pineapples. But we \nsaid that it would make sense if it where pinecones because that\u2019s one \nof the icons in our family crest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right next to the house is the old soap factory. The family there was\n also very polite and helpful. It was no problem to enter the roof of \nthe building next to it so we could make some nice pictures of this very\n old factory. And of course the old text which is not in line of sight \non street level. The text is \u201cStoomzeepfabriek de Nijverheid\u201d meaning: \n“steam soap factory the Industry”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a drink and a chitchat we got a very nice advice. There might \nbe some pictures of Heike in the local Assen town hall. In the time of \nHeike it was very normal that every one who has a company or store in \nAssen would be registered. These registrations include pictures of the \nperson. So i think we have to make another trip to Assen someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downtown Groningen<\/strong>
\n\tWe were invited by a Family in Groningen. This was the house of Herlof \nWillem Hendriks who lived here around 1900\u2019s. It was amazing. Entering \nthis mansion is like stepping back in time. It was completely restored \nto the time when Herlof lived there.  There is even a painting of \nHendriks on the wall!. There was a display of old door panels of the \ndoors that used to be on the first floor. To bad It\u2019s not in the \nproperty of the people who live there now. Former inhabitants have \nremoved the panels some time ago but the current owners managed to find \nthem again. After more information we shared we went to the Caf\u00e9 \u201cde \nSleutel\u201d because there is also a painting of Hendriks. We continued our \nvisit in the cafe with a nice cold beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sil tried to take a Photo, but did not succeed. Its better to see it \nwith your own eyes. We also heard that there are three more paintings of\n Hendriks in the Groninger archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day we took a tour through all the small towns of \nSchoterland; Katlijk, Oudeschoot, Oranjewoud and even Mildam. In the \nhope we would find more graves of our ancestors. We did not succeed. But\n we took some very nice pictures of the environment and churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend (6 and 7 august) Sil land I went to Assen to find out more about our ancestors. Elly, Otto, Herman and Louise  where here before. You can read their stories in our Guestbook. First to go was \u2018Huize Boschlust\u2019.This is the mansion where Harmen Westra have lived. But in the time of Harmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westra.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}