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Encyclopedia Britannica



ZWOLLE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 1064 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZWOLLE , the
capital
  of the province of Overysel, Holland, on the Zwarte Water, and a junction station 242 M. N.. of Harderwyk. Pop. (1905) 23,773. It is the centre of the whole northern and eastern canal systems, and by means of the short canal, the 1A'illemsvaart, which joins the Zwarte Water and the I"sel, has regular steamboat communication with Kampen and Amsterdam. The Groote Kerk, of St Michael (first half of the 15th century) occupies the site of an earlier church of which an interesting 11th-century bas-relief remains. The church contains a richly carved pulpit, the
work
  of
Adam
  Straes van W'eilborch about 1620, and there is besides some good carving and a fine organ (1721). The Roman Catholic church, also dedicated to St Michael,
dates
  from the end of the 14th century. The modernized town
hall
  was originally built in 1448. Mention shculd also be made of the Sassen Poort, one of the old city gates; a gild-
house
  (1J71); the provincial government offices, containing the archives; and a museum of antiquities and natural history. Three miles from Zwolle, on a slight eminence,called the Agnietenberg, or hill of St Agnes, once stood the Augustinian convent in which Thomas a Kempis spent the greatest part of his life and died in 1471. Zwolle has a consider-able trade by river, a large fish market, and the most important cattle market in Holland after Rotterdam. The more important industries comprise
cotton
  manufactures, iron works, boat-building, dyeing and bleaching, tanning, rope-making and salt-making.


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