The Amsterdam Dungeon

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The Amsterdam Dungeon (also: Amsterdam Dungeon ) in Amsterdam ( Province of North Holland ) is a combination of museum , theater and attraction. It provides information on actual events from the history of Amsterdam . The performances take place in eleven rooms and the visitors are accompanied by around seven actors. Further dungeons are located in Blackpool (in the Blackpool Tower ), Edinburgh , Hamburg ( Hamburg Dungeon ), Berlin , London ( London Dungeon ) and York .

history

Rokin (2005)

The company Merlin Entertainments Group (MEG) opened in September 2005. The Amsterdam Dungeon in Amsterdam city center, in the street Rokin .

The building has a historical background and was therefore well suited to house the museum. This is where the miracle of Amsterdam occurred in 1345 . To commemorate the miracle, a procession, the Stille Omgang ("silent tour"), has taken place near the house since the Middle Ages . To commemorate this event, a church was built here (between 1346 and 1347), the Heilige Stede .

Since the building is under monument protection ( Rijksmonument ), archaeological investigations were carried out first before MEG could set up the museum. Among other things, the family grave of a former rich merchant , Gherrit Guertsen Doothooft, was discovered. Over time, a mosque, the Hotel Park Plaza and an action house were housed in the house.

The Amsterdam Dungeon has a mirror maze. With a group of a maximum of 30 people, the dark sides (“duistere kant”) of Amsterdam's history are presented in eleven rooms.

  • Room 1: The "dark sides" of Amsterdam in the former church.
  • Room 2: The Bloody Inquisition , torture chamber and tools.
  • Room 3: Magical music in the Music Bar . Here a magician is issuing warnings.
  • Room 4: Across the Batavia , a ship of the Dutch East India Company with its gruesome circumstances of illness, violence and death.
  • Room 5: An anatomical theater by Doctor Deyman . The notorious criminal Zwarte Jan is subjected to an autopsy .
  • Room 6: The death chamber.
  • Room 7: The Spanish Inquisition around 1600.
  • Room 8: apparition, witch hunt.
  • Room 9: The dark streets of Amsterdam in the mirror labyrinth.
  • Room 10: The plague epidemic of 1664.
  • Room 11: Lean Hein of Death . The final journey to doom.

In the Marco Polo Travel Atlas Amsterdam , The Amsterdam Dungeon is described as “For friends of the macabre; Scary exhibition about the dark side of Amsterdam's history, including live demonstrations and a ghost train ride. "

See also

further reading

  • L. Noordegraaf, G. Valk: De gave Gods: De pest in Holland vanaf de late middeleeuwen . Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1996. ISBN 9070805146 . P. 230

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author: Hans van Kilsdonk . 16 October 2005. “The Amsterdam Dungeon open hair poorten.” Dutch, accessed on 2 March 2013
  2. ↑ The Dungeons ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Links to all existing dungeons. Retrieved March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thedungeons.com
  3. ↑ Merlin Enterteinments Group ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Information in Dutch and English. Retrieved March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.the-dungeons.nl
  4. ↑ Silence Omgan . Information about the Miracle of Amsterdam. Dutch, accessed March 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Information about the Heilige Stede ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . With illustrations. Dutch, accessed March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.begijnhofamsterdam.nl
  6. ↑ History of the Rokin 78a building ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / reliwiki.nl
  7. ↑ Rijksmonument, No .: 518455
  8. ^ VOC: Hel op de Batavia . Dutch, accessed March 2, 2013
  9. ↑ See also: Noordegraaf, L., G. Valk: De gave Gods: De pest in Holland vanaf de late middeleeuwen . Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1996. ISBN 9070805146 . P. 230
  10. ↑ 11 shows with 7 actors ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed March 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iamsterdam.com
  11. ↑ See also: Marco Polo Reiseatlas, Amsterdam. Mairdumont GmbH & Co. KG. Ostfildern 2010. ISBN 3829724055 . P. 26

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  N , 4 ° 53 ′ 32 ″  E