OUR IMPRESSIVE
HISTORY

The Professorenwijk, Burgemeesterswijk and Rijndijkbuurt neighbourhoods have an impressive history. Knowing a bit more about it will deepen your appreciation for your surroundings.

How wonderful it is to know where your street's name comes from, what the oldest streets in the neighbourhood are, how the neighbourhood has grown, what memories older residents still have, where the many shops used to be and what happened to the large Jewish orphanage and the course of World War II in our neighbourhood.
That's why, since its inception in 1994, the neighbourhood association has always attached great value to discovering and sharing neighbourhood history, for example in personal memories of older residents (oral history). Everything that has been done in this area over the years is compiled on this website.