Posted 10 years ago
vetraio50
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Great photo of the Town Hall in Brussels taken from on high across the Grand' Place, I suppose. Septimus and Clara Miller probably were in Brussels around Easter in 1907 and collected some cards of the Gothic buildings there.
The Millers had a taste for Gothic and Neo Gothic. This is an example of Brabantine Gothic: a form particular to the Low Countries. That belfry is 96 metres or 310 ft. high and dates to 1455. It is a replacement for a smaller tower that was built from 1402 to 1420. It is part of the complex that is the Town Hall, the Stadhuis or Hôtel de Ville of Brussels.
The belfry was probably the target for the guns of the French army under the Duke of Villeroi during the bombardment of Brussels in 1695. Although the Stadhuis was gutted by fire in the bombardment destroying archives and the art collections, it was soon restored and with some additions became the building we see today in the Grand’ Place.
If you look to the right in this photo you can see la rue de la Tête d'or and le Renard, le Cornet and la Louve. That bandstand (le Kiosque or de Kiosk) looks amazing too!
The position of the Kiosk is important. This was the spot where public executions were carried out in Brussels until 1863. Two famous heads to roll there were those of the comtes d'Egmont et de Hornes in 1568. In 1860 a fountain was placed there to commemorate their role in history: the first leaders of a Dutch revolt against the Spaniards that began the Eighty Years War (1568–1648). "Egmond en Hoorne"!
Thirty years later the fountain was moved and replaced by the Bandstand. The square became a great place to go on Sundays at midday with bands livening up the crowds that flocked there in the Belle Époque.
This is a postcard marked N.D. Phot. published by Neurdein et Cie (1860’s-1919) ?Paris, France.
The Neurdein Studio was founded in 1864 by Etienne Neurdein, son of the French pioneer in photography, Charlet. His brother Antonin managed the studio by himself for a number of years but after 1887 they ran the company together. They produced large quantities of stereo-views and lantern slides depicting scenes in Europe and French North Africa that became more tourist oriented in the 1870’s. Many of these images would later be printed in heliographed albums. They went on to publish many continuous tone, monochromatic postcards of urban French views, nudes, panoramas, military themes, and many scenes from various French colonies and Quebec, Canada. They also provided photographs of paintings for many art cards. Many of their postcards neither carry a name or logo but just the letters N D. In 1920 they united with Levy Sons & Co. to form Levy & Neurdein reunis. Their negatives are now owned by the Roger-Viollet Photographic Agency.
(http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersn.html)
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Great again! Was it the 80 yrs war that condemned every man, woman & child in the Netherlands by the Pope?
stunning matey!! and great history posting!!
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Was it the Pope or Philip II? Or was he backed by the Pope?
This has to have been one of the most outrageous edicts of all time!
"On February 16, 1568, the entire population of the Netherlands—three million—was condemned to death as heretics, apart from a few named exceptions:
Philip next submitted a "Memorial and Representation" of the state of the Low Countries to the Spanish Inquisition craving the judgment of the Fathers upon it. After deliberating, the inquisitors pronounced their decision on the 16th of February, 1568. It was to the effect that, "with the exception of a select list of names which had been handed to them, all the inhabitants of the Netherlands were heretics or abettors of heresy, and so had been guilty of the crime of high treason." On the 26th of the same month, Philip confirmed this sentence by a proclamation, in which he commanded the decree to be carried into immediate execution, without favour or respect of persons. The King of Spain actually passed sentence of death upon a whole nation. We behold him erecting a common scaffold for its execution, and digging one vast grave for all the men, and women, and children of the Low Countries. "Since the beginning of the world," says Brandt, "men have not seen or heard any parallel to this horrible sentence. (Wylie, History of Protestantism, vol. II, p. 70.)
Ten days later, the Spanish King Philip II ordered Alba to carry out the sentence. In the terror which followed, the wealth of the prosperous merchants made them a particular target, and axe, rope, and fire consumed the natural leaders of Dutch society. Alba wrote to Philip coolly estimating the number to be executed after Holy Week 1568 'at eight hundred heads'. Alba is said to have admitted to personal responsibility for 18,600 executions during his six-year tenure—a plausible figure, but the additional number massacred with increasing barbarity by his troops is incalculable."
http://www.reformation.org/heroic-holland.html
Haarlem, King of Spain, Men are no good! No hope for Mankind!
I'm a bit more positive than that Don.
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I have yet to find one dutch person here who has heard of it. They must not teach history.
Inconvenient truths?
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Didn't remember King Philip's part only the Popes edit & that the French sent an army to do the job. Seems like most of the murders are done in the name of one religion or another!
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