Baldock
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 22.6 " N , 0 ° 11 ′ 19.7" W.
Baldock is a small town with about 9,900 inhabitants in the county of North Hertfordshire (England), about 53 km north of London . The historic Icknield Way passed through town.
history
Baldock was founded in 1148 as a commercial branch of the Templar Order , its name is said to be derived from the old French name Baldac for the city of Baghdad . Another derivation of the name consists of the Middle English words balled (today's English: soon , in German: kahl ) and ac (today's English: oak , in German: Eiche ).
In 1903, not far west of Baldock, the project of a garden city was tackled for the first time in England - the result was the town of Letchworth Garden City , now the administrative seat of North Hertfordshire.
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Street
Baldock is on the national roads A1 (M) (London - Edinburgh ) and A505 to Royston . The A507 is only of regional importance.
railroad
Baldock station is on the railway line from London via Stevenage to Cambridge .
Sports
The football club Baldock Town is z. Currently organized semi-professionally; a well-known player from his ranks is Kevin Phillips .
Town twinning
Since 1988 there has been a town partnership with the German town of Eisenberg (Pfalz) and since 1998 one with Sanvignes-les-Mines in France .
Personalities
- Ludwig Winder (1889–1946), Austrian and Czechoslovak German-speaking writer, journalist and literary critic in emigration, died in Baldock
- Justin Steinfeld (1886–1970), German writer in emigration, died in Baldock, where he last lived
- Kevin Phillips (born 1973), English football player
literature
- Michael Baignent, Richard Leigh: The temple and the lodge - the legacy of the Templars in Freemasonry , German edition Bergisch Gladbach 1990; ISBN 978-3-404-64106-2
- IM Stead: BALDOCK Hertfordshire, England . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Eilert Ekwall: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names . OUP, Oxford [Eng.] 1981, ISBN 0-19-869103-3 , p. 24.
