Clausstral house of St. Peter. Original rear facade of a house of a canon of the Pieterskerk. This site became a facade in the 17th century. In 1744 (right) and 1756 (left) Jacob Maret was commissioned by the owner D.J. van Tuyll van Seroeskerken van Zuylen to build a facade of Blue limestone. The top […]
Overvecht: from peat meadow area to a residential area
Overvecht: from peat meadow area to residential area You are in a peat meadow area that was created in 2005. Until about 1960, the whole of Overvecht was a peat meadow area and consisted of narrow strips of land, dikes and ditches. It originated in the 12th and 13th century through large-scale cultivation of the […]
Castle “De Haar”
Landgoed Haarzuilens includes the imposing Kasteel de Haar with its castle gardens, the village of Haarzuilens and the surrounding lands. There is something for everyone in the area: a visit to a castle, a nice walk or bike ride in nature and a lunch or picnic in between these activities. Castle the hair Few castles […]
Romance – Bicycle parking
Romance When a lot of staff still worked in this building in the 1960s, romances also arose. My best memory of the Neude In 1960 I, Joop van Luijn, worked at the assembly department in the telephone exchanges on the Neude. That same year I met my current wife in the post office. Irene worked […]
someone to call
Calling someone? Back in the day, if you wanted to call someone and you didn’t have a telephone number, you could call the number information service 008. You got the telephone operators on the line who helped you look up the number. In the carousel archive above the ladies or in one of the books […]
Telephone exchange office 2010
Telephone exchange 2010 This photo shows one of the four telephone exchanges in the building around the turn of the century. With this exchange, telephone traffic between other exchanges, including those of the other telephone providers, was processed. The exchange was previously included in the national telephone traffic network. Other exchanges in the building processed […]
New distributor
New distributor Around 1990, the distributor looked very different, but it was of equal function as the present day. Here the cables that went to the customers were connected to the telephone exchanges and the Internet equipment. The main distributor was behind the windows of the building on the Drakenburgstraat side.
Connection technology old and new
Connection technology old and new In 1990, a wing of the building partially tore off due to the weight of the cable packages that ran meters thick through the building, which is seen on the image on the left. With the current fiber optic technology, the transmission capacity of the left image has been more […]
Types of telephone exchanges – bicycle parking de Neude
Types of telephone exchanges Over the years, the capacity of the telephone exchange has continued to grow. Fewer and fewer people were also needed for operation and maintenance. Photos above portray this development. In 1926, approximately 1 operator was needed to serve 100 customers. In 1960, 1 maintenance engineer was needed per 1000 customers to […]
History of Post Office “De Neude”
History of this building In this bicycle shed, there are various information panels that show how this building was used in the past. It shows what was needed to provide a large part of the Netherlands with telephone and internet. At the place where the library is now, many telephone operators used to connect telephone […]