{"id":23258,"date":"2024-06-25T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T07:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denhelder.online\/?post_type=actueel&p=23258"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:11:00","slug":"mill-square-square-without-a-mill","status":"publish","type":"actueel","link":"https:\/\/denhelder.online\/en\/actueel\/molenplein-plein-zonder-molen\/","title":{"rendered":"Molenplein: square without a mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Molenplein. Woningstichting\/Helder is realizing this under that title. <\/span>Real estate currently 22 beautiful townhouses between Weststraat and <\/span>the Keizersgracht. A unique location, a stone's throw from the sea. A <\/span>A peculiar name, that Molenplein. Not least because there <\/span>never a mill stood there. Why is it called that then? And what <\/span>Does this place make it interesting?<\/span><\/p>\n

To begin with the answer to the first question: the mill to which the <\/span>The name refers to stood directly opposite. The square was situated on the outer bend. <\/span>of the Helders Canal. The De Eendracht mill stood in the inner bend. This <\/span>was built in 1843, together with a miller's house and two small cottages. <\/span>It was a so-called tower mill, which towered high above the city and <\/span>mainly ground grain into flour to bake bread. Also the Molengracht <\/span>and Molenstraat are named after this mill.
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The Janzen brothers owned De Eendracht. And not only this one. <\/span>mill, also of the sawmill De Goede Verwachting on the Fabrieksgracht. <\/span>Housing Foundation\/Helder Vastgoed is currently showing De Goede Verwachting <\/span>rebuild, as part of the new Molenwerf neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavenly fire<\/p>\n

Windmills were vulnerable to lightning strikes at that time. Where the Goede <\/span>Expectation in 1897, as a newspaper wrote, 'was by heavenly fire <\/span>struck' and burned to the ground, that fate befell De Eendracht seven years <\/span>earlier. Considerable damage was caused. And De Eendracht wasn't even original, but <\/span>already rebuilt once, after it was destroyed by fire in 1850. The Eendracht <\/span>It stood opposite the Molenplein until 1914, after which it was demolished. The square <\/span>naturally retained his name.
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That Molenplein itself played a prominent role in Den Helder for quite some time. After <\/span>on December 18, 1865, the railway line between Den Helder and Alkmaar was opened, <\/span>the Molenplein became 'the place to be': from 1867 onwards, the weekly <\/span>Wednesday market takes place. A strange place for a market? Well, not entirely. The <\/span>Molenplein was situated at the intersection of Kanaalweg and Hoofdgracht where in <\/span>the nineteenth century a large part of public life in Den Helder <\/span>played.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chickens and goats<\/p>\n

Moreover, the Helders Canal was a busy route for towboats and <\/span>other scheduled shipping. Old photos show numerous ships in the outer bend <\/span>lay moored. The supply of vegetables, fruit, sheep, chickens, and goats for <\/span>The market on the Molenplein also took place partly via the Helders Canal. <\/span>From 1900, the Molenplein took on a completely different role. That year, the State Higher Secondary School (RHBS, later called HBS) was put into use here. A for that time impressive building, where prominently along the Kanaalweg a large <\/span>clock stood on a column, as if to remind the students that they <\/span>especially had to arrive on time. The German occupiers took over the building in 1942. <\/span>seized and demolished it in 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teacher training college<\/p>\n

After the war, the Molenplein was neither a school nor a square anymore. That changed. <\/span>early 1960s, when the Teacher Training College was built. The following followed here <\/span>\u2018'student teachers' the teacher training (m\/f). The school name changed <\/span>from 1970 in the Teacher Training College.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the merger with the 'Pedac' in Alkmaar, the branch at Molenplein disappeared. <\/span>\u2013 a fate that befell every Helderse program that partnered with an educational institution of <\/span>outside the city merged. The school building was subsequently used for the <\/span>University of Applied Sciences for Petroleum and Gas Technology, a branch of the <\/span>maritime education. This college also disappeared after a merger. Finally, it received <\/span>the complex still plays a role as a Study Centre for HAVO and VWO students of what <\/span>when it was still called Etty Hillesum College. In 2007, it was definitively the end of the line.
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The school was demolished and the site was eventually developed for phases 3 and 4 of <\/span>Molenplein project: Dijckzicht care center and Over 't Wad residential complex. <\/span>Currently, the 22 city villas being built constitute phase 2 of the project. <\/span>Molenplein, with which the entire area along Weststraat will soon be filled. <\/span>The name Molenplein therefore means: living in a place with a rich history.<\/span><\/p>\n

RONALD DEN BOER<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project Molenplein. Onder die titel realiseert Woningstichting\/Helder Vastgoed momenteel 22 fraaie stadswoningen tussen de Weststraat en de Keizersgracht. Waarom heet het zo? 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