Wageningen historical album. Photo: Albert Sikkema Many students know Wageningen University, but not Wageningen city. The Historical Album Wageningen could change that. The album was released by Jumbo supermarket, in collaboration with the Old Wageningen History Association.
Castle
Thus, you will discover that Wageningen was a small settlement that was given city rights by count Otto van Gelre in 1263. But also that flint tools and bronze artefacts were found in the burial mounds around Wageningen, which indicate that the region was inhabited in prehistoric times. Wageningen once had a city wall, moat and castle, but only pieces remain. Even the old Wageningen city centre is no longer intact because the city found itself in the line of fire twice during the Second World War.
Brick factory
Before the establishment of the Agricultural University of Applied Sciences in 1918, Wageningen was a labour town. There were several brick factories in the floodplains of the Rhine, thriving tobacco industry and a shipyard. With the National School of Agriculture, agricultural institutes and testing facilities settled in Wageningen at the end of the nineteenth century. The album contains old photographs from that period of the Aula, experimental farm Duivendaal and the Dreijen arboretum.
University
In a separate chapter, entitled From Underdog to World Player, there are also recent photos of the university and new campus. The photographs of Atlas, Forum and Impulse catch the eye, as they are in colour.
The sticker album focuses extensively on the Second World War. This includes the evacuation of the Wageningen population both during 1940 and 1945, the bombings, the Blote Jan (naked Jan) monument in front of Hotel De Wereld. This is the hotel where the German capitulation was signed in 1945, earning Wageningen its reputation as the city of liberation.
Shopping
The book contains a large number of details, 256, to be precise. The details are yours to discover, one sticker at a time, which you receive free of charge when grocery shopping at the Jumbo. There are many black and white photographs, but we will reveal one detail: there is a music record in the album.