ENKHUIZEN

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ENKHUIZEN , a seaport of Holland in the province of North Holland, on the Zuider Zee, and a railway terminus, 112 m. N.E. by E. of Hoorn, with which it is also connected by steam tramway. In conjunction with the railway service there is a steamboat ferry to Stavoren in Friesland. Pop. (1900) 6865. Enkhuizen, like its neighbour Hoorn, exhibits many interesting examples of domestic architecture dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, when :t was an important and flourishing city. The facades of the houses are usually built in courses of brick and stone, and adorned with carvings, sculptures and

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

. Some ruined gateways belonging to the old city walls are still

standing

STANDING

; among them being the tower-gateway called the Dromedary (1540), which overlooks the harbour. The tower contains several rooms, one of which was formerly used as a prison. Among the churches mention must be made of the Zuiderkerk, or

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

church, with a conspicuous tower (1450-1525); and the Wester-' kerk, or West church, which possesses a beautifully carved Renaissance screen and pulpit of the middle of the 16th century, and a quaint wooden bell-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

(1519) built for use before the completion of the bell-tower. There are also a Roman Catholic church and a

synagogue

SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

. The picturesque town

hall

(1688) contains some finely decorated rooms with paintings by Johan I van Neck, a collection of local antiquities and the archives. Other interesting buildings are the orphanage (1616), containing some 17th and 18th century portraits and ancient leather hangings; the weigh-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

(1559), the upper story of which was once used by the Surgeons' Gild, several of the window-panes (dating chiefly from about 1640), being decorated with the arms of various members; the former mint (1611); and the ancient assembly-house of the dike-

reeves

REEVES, JOHN SIMS (1818-1900)

of Holland and West Friesland. Enkhuizen possesses a considerable fishing

fleet

FLEET

and has some shipbuilding and rope-making, as well as market { traffic.

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