Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Utrecht, Netherlands

The Sacred Heart statue is a statue in the Dutch city of Utrecht.

Wikipedia: Heilig Hartbeeld (Utrecht) (NL)

The former Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church in Utrecht East, in the Oudwijk neighborhood, was built in 1929 and designed by architect Jos Duynstee in the style of the Amsterdam School. The church was consecrated on May 23, 1929 by Mgr. van de Wetering. It is still a landmark in Utrecht East. In the interior there are beautiful vaults, masonry arches, brickwork with characteristic glazed bricks, lots of natural stone, stained glass, beautiful tile patterns on the floors and many ornaments, such as porcelain stations and holy water bowls.

Wikipedia: Heilig Hartkerk (Utrecht) (NL)

The Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican parish church in the Utrecht district of Oudwijk on the Van Limburg Stirumplein near the Van Limburg Stirumstraat, dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The first stone was laid on November 9, 1911 by the Anglican bishop for Northern Europe Herbert Bury. A year later the first church service was held and eventually the church was inaugurated on 2 June 1913.

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The bunker in the Wilhelminapark was built in 1943 as a bomb-proof German personnel bunker in the Wilhelminapark in Utrecht. After 1945, the bunker was mainly an obstacle. Due to its cultural-historical value, it has been a municipal monument since 2001 and has been used as an exhibition space by visual artists since 2014.

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Wilhelminapark is a city park in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It is one of the first parks in the Netherlands to be recognized as a national monument. The park is centrally located in Utrecht-Oost and east of Oudwijk. The surrounding neighborhood is called the Wilhelminaparkbuurt, while a street along the park is also called Wilhelminapark.

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The Statue of Queen Wilhelmina is located in the Wilhelminapark in the Oost district of Utrecht.

Wikipedia: Standbeeld koningin Wilhelmina (Utrecht) (NL), Website

The fire test is a simulator in the Railway Museum.

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The Jewish monument in Utrecht is a memorial for the Jewish victims of the Second World War from Utrecht. More than 1600 people were deported in 1942 and 1943, only 400 of them returned. Until 2015, Utrecht was the only major city in the Netherlands without a Jewish monument, other than Anne Frank's image at the Janskerkhof and a memorial stone at the Jewish cemetery. The monument was unveiled on 29 October 2015 by Mayor Jan van Zanen.

Wikipedia: Joods monument (Utrecht) (NL), Website

The Railway Museum in Utrecht is the Dutch national railway museum. It was established in 1927 and since 1954 has been housed in the former Maliebaan station.

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St. Catherine's Cathedral, Utrecht, is a Catholic church dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria situated in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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The Utrecht Archives is a records department in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The Utrecht Archives manages the biggest and richest collection of documents about the history of the city and the province of Utrecht and its towns and people. With over 200 km of archives, images and 70.000 publications, the Archive is the major source of information for the history of Utrecht. The Utrecht Archives also disposes knowledge about legal supervision of archives in the field of analog as well as digital archive management. Besides, the national centre for ecclesiastical records is located in the Utrecht Archives together with the records of the Dutch Railways. The Utrecht Archives institution works closely together with other partners such as (local) governments, private individuals, partner institutions and other museums in Utrecht.

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Hugo Wstinc was a Dutch jurist.

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St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht, or Dom Church, is a Gothic church dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, which was the cathedral of the Diocese of Utrecht during the Middle Ages. It is the country's only pre-Reformation cathedral, but has been a Protestant church since 1580.

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St. Peter's Church is a Reformed and former Roman Catholic church in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands, dedicated to Peter the Apostle. It is one of the city's oldest churches. Its construction began in 1039 and it was inaugurated on 1 May 1048 by Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht. The church was the eastern end of Utrecht's "Kerkenkruis", of which the Domkerk the centre is. Characteristic of the Romanesque style in which it is built are the church's large nave pillars, each hewn from one piece of red sandstone, and the crypt under the choir. The building is now used by the Walloon Church.

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The resistance monument on Domplein in Utrecht is a war memorial in honor of the Dutch Resistance in the Second World War.

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The Dom Tower of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, at 112.32 metres (368,5 feet) in height. It is considered the symbol of Utrecht. The tower was part of St. Martin's Cathedral, also known as the Dom Church, and was built between 1321 and 1382, to a design by John of Hainaut. The cathedral was never fully completed due to lack of money. Since the unfinished nave collapsed in 1674, the Dom tower has been a freestanding tower. The tower stands at the spot where the city of Utrecht originated almost 2,000 years ago.

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The Buurkerk is a former church building in Utrecht (city), Netherlands on the Buurkerkhof. The building is the location of the Museum Speelklok, and the entrance is on the Steenweg. It is one of the medieval parish churches of Utrecht, along with the Jacobikerk, the Nicolaïkerk and the Geertekerk.

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The Andreasklooster is a former monastery on the Springweg in the city center of Utrecht. It was built in several phases from 1872 to 1886 and designed by Alfred Tepe.

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