Delft

Rotterdam / Delft
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorological Instituut

Delft municipality
; flag	; coat of arms
province	South Holland
mayor	Marja van Bijsterveldt ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality	Delft
Area; - land ; - water	24.06 km 2; 22.85 km 2; 1.21 km 2
CBS code	0503
Residents	103,247 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	4291 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	52 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 22 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 22 ′ E
Important traffic route
prefix	015
Postcodes	2601, 2611-2614, 2616, 2622-2629
Website	Homepage of Delft
	View of the city center with the Oude Kerk

Delft ( listen ^?^/^I ) is a Dutch university town in the province of South Holland between The Hague and Rotterdam on the southern part of the Rhine-Schie Canal . This city, which had 103,247 inhabitants on January 31, 2019, belongs to the Randstad conurbation , which also includes the large cities of the province of North Holland with and around Amsterdam .

Delft is one of the oldest Dutch cities. The old town has numerous sights that testify to its past as a flourishing trading city in the Golden Age . Despite a serious town fire in the 16th century and a devastating explosion of the weapons magazine in the 17th century, which spared only a few buildings, has Delft on a well-preserved, of canals crisscrossed historic townscape that of Brabant Gothic and patrician houses of the Renaissance is marked and has preserved the typical character of old Dutch cities. To Amsterdam Delft has developed into the most popular tourist destination in the Netherlands and has around one million visitors a year.

Historically, Delft is best known for William of Orange , who moved his residence to the fortified city from 1572, where he was murdered in 1584. He is buried in the Nieuwe Kerk ; The members of the royal family have since been buried in the church's crypt. Delft is therefore known as Prinsenstad (prince city).

Since the 17th century Delft is known for its ceramic factories and manufactured there Delftware in blauw delft known. The city's most famous son is the painter Jan Vermeer . In the 19th century Delft developed into a technology city and distinguished itself through the Technical University founded in 1842 in the fields of technical innovation and architecture.

geography

Delft in the province of South Holland, located in the agglomeration of The Hague-Europoort-Rotterdam

Geographical location

Delft is located in the province of South Holland in the west of the Netherlands, halfway between Rotterdam and The Hague and around 15 kilometers from the North Sea coast and the beaches at Kijkduin or Monster . The city is part of the Randstad agglomeration , where around 40 percent of the Dutch population live.

The city lies two to four meters below sea level and is embedded in a polder landscape criss-crossed by numerous drainage ditches and canals . These flat polders are diked, previously flooded areas that have been pumped out and drained and in which the water table is artificially regulated. Since the end of the 14th century, windmills were used as scoop and pump mills for drainage.

The Schie and the Vliet run through the city as part of the Rhine-Schie Canal , which connects the Nieuwe Maas and the Oude Rijn and extends from Schiedam and Rotterdam via Delft and Voorburg to Leiden .

geology

The geology of the South Holland coastal areas is determined by the rivers that flow into the North Sea there . Above all, the Rhine , Meuse and Scheldt and their tributaries have supplied a large amount of sediments , which led to the formation of the Rhine-Meuse delta . The older rocks have sunk into deeper layers; the geological situation is thus similar to that found in many other geologically young subsidence areas.

Along the coast of southern Holland made the superficial layers of the soil of the coastal strip mainly from clay and marl -ablagerungen, which often inland at higher altitudes fens rest. The clays were deposited after the sea level began to rise in the postglacial ( transgression ). The higher areas are glacial.

The Delft area has clastic sediments such as clay and sand , especially drifting sand .

Land use

The urban area extends over an area of 24.08 square kilometers. In 2003, before the boundary between Delft and Midden-Delfland was changed , the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) surveyed the land use in detail. At that time, Delft had an area of 26.31 square kilometers, of which 7.40 square kilometers, i.e. around 28 percent, were residential areas and 6.63 square kilometers, 25 percent, were used for agriculture, including intensive cultivation in greenhouses.

Neighboring communities

The location and distance of the neighboring municipalities is as follows:

Rijswijk 4 km	The Hague 9 km	Pijnacker-Nootdorp 6 km
Midden-Delfland 8 km		Pijnacker-Nootdorp 6 km
Midden-Delfland 8 km	Schiedam 15 km	Rotterdam 14 km

City structure

Downtown Delft (Wijk 11) and its other districts

Delft is divided into the following districts (wijk / wijken) :

Wijk 11 - Binnenstad (inner city)
Wijk 12 - Vrijenban
Wijk 13 - Hof van Delft
Wijk 14 - Voordijkshoorn
Wijk 16 - Delftse Hout
Wijk 22 - Tanthof-West
Wijk 23 - Tanthof-Oost
Wijk 24 - Voorhof
Wijk 25 - Buitenhof
Wijk 26 - Abtswoude
Wijk 27 - Schieweg
Wijk 28 - Wippolder
Wijk 29 - Ruiven

climate

Proximity to the sea and prevailing winds from the direction of the North Sea , which is warmed by the Gulf Stream , determine the mild and relatively humid maritime climate of the coastal areas of the Netherlands and thus also of Delft.

With an average annual temperature of around 10 degrees Celsius, the average temperature in January is 3.6 degrees Celsius. The average rainfall of around 856 millimeters is distributed relatively evenly over the year, with February and April being the driest months. Storms often occur in autumn, which can be accompanied by heavy rainfall. In winter it is wet and cold; snowfalls rarely occur. As in the rest of the Netherlands, the main characteristic of the weather is its changeability.

As early as the early 18th century, Nicolaus Samuelis Cruquius regularly noted air pressure, precipitation and humidity in Delft , from which temperature, wind direction and wind strength could later be reconstructed. The original weather observations and the later conversions are kept in the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI).

The climate table (long-term mean 1981-2010), recorded by the Rotterdam / Delft weather station, which is located near Rotterdam The Hague Airport , around 10 km southeast of the Delft city limits, shows the details of the Delft climate:

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Rotterdam / Delft

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	6.0	6.6	9.9	13.5	17.5	19.9	22.2	22.1	18.9	14.7	9.9	6.6	O	14th
Min. Temperature (° C)	0.8	0.5	2.6	4.3	7.8	10.6	13.1	12.8	10.6	7.5	4.2	1.4	O	6.4
Temperature (° C)	3.6	3.7	6.4	9.1	12.9	15.5	17.8	17.6	14.8	11.2	7.3	4.2	O	10.4

Precipitation ( mm )	69.1	57.9	64.9	42.6	58.3	65.2	74.0	81.0	87.1	90.1	87.1	78.3	Σ	855.6

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	2.01	3.00	4.00	5.83	6.90	6.79	6.87	6.31	4.59	3.45	2.01	1.51	O	4.4

Rainy days ( d )	20th	17th	20th	17th	18th	17th	18th	18th	19th	20th	22nd	21st	Σ	227

Humidity ( % )	88	85	83	78	77	79	79	80	84	86	89	89	O	83.1

Source: Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorological Instituut

population

With an average of 484 inhabitants / km², the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world (comparison with Germany: 231 inhabitants / km²). Delft as part of the Randstad agglomeration , like this area as a whole, has a particularly high population density : On January 1, 2007, the Delft urban area had 4,151 inhabitants / km². In The Hague, nine kilometers to the north-west, this population density is significantly exceeded with 5,738 inhabitants / km², while Rotterdam, 14 kilometers south of Delft, has a comparatively low 2,824 inhabitants / km².

Population pyramid of the municipality of Delft (2007)

On January 1, 2007 Delft had 95,382 inhabitants, the number of which had increased to 96,055 inhabitants on February 1, 2008. In 2007 the number of households was 52,885, with an average size of 1.8 people. 54 percent of households were single. A total of 2,370 families lived in Delft, 13 percent of whom were single parents. The constant decrease in families with children is striking; In 2007 it was 8,995 - a decrease of 11 percent compared to 2002. Against the Dutch trend, Delft has comparatively few children from 0 to 1 years and adults from 35 to 74 years.

In the Delft population pyramid, the proportion of men between the ages of 20 and 30 is particularly striking . In 2002 this proportion was around twice the Dutch average. The proportion of women in this period of life was around 25 percent higher than the Dutch average. The reason for this is the Technical University of Delft, which currently has 14,300 students enrolled, of which only 2,800 are women.

Development of the population

Delft's population more than tripled in the 20th century. Since the late 1990s, however, stagnation has been recorded, leading to a population decline for the first time in 2003, which intensified in the following years, but was characterized by slight recoveries in 2004 and 2007.

Year ¹	Male	Female	total
1900	15,296	16,293	31,589
1920	19,547	18,886	38,433
1940	27,541	27,416	54,957
1960	37,947	35,349	73,323
1980	42,940	40,971	83,911
2000	50,299	45,802	96.101
2002	50,636	46,325	96,961
2003	50,531	46,075	96,606
2004	50.084	45,707	96,791
2005	49,655	45,381	95,036
2006	49,710	45,380	95,090
2007	49,867	45,512	95,379
2008	50,416	45,752	96.168
2009	50,618	45,899	96,517
2010	50,848	45,912	96,760
2011	51,652	46,038	97,690

Foreigners	14,221	12,657	26,878
Proportion of foreigners%	28.5%	27.8%	28.15%

¹ January 1, ² according to CBS definition
Source: Statistics from the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007

Population with a foreign background

In 2007, 8,332 people of non-Dutch nationality lived in Delft. That corresponds to 8.7 percent of the population and is distributed over 147 different nationalities. The statistics of the Netherlands, however, deal only marginally with different citizenship and ethnicity , rather primarily with ethnic groups . As belonging to another ethnic group - and thus as foreigners - all those people are considered who either themselves or of whom a parent or grandparent was born abroad. According to this, 29.1 percent of Delft's population were of other ethnic origin in 2007 (as of January 1, 2007: 27,803 versus 57,579 Dutch), while the national average is below 20 percent.

As everywhere in the Netherlands, the statistics differentiate between citizens from "westerse landen", which includes most of the EU and the USA , and "niet westerse landen" for all other countries in the world. Former citizens of the former Dutch colonies of Indonesia and New Guinea are also shown separately under “westerse landen”, even if they have been living in the Netherlands for more than two generations as citizens of the Netherlands, while people from Aruba are classified as “ allochtones ” from the Netherlands "Niet westerse landen" listed, although Aruba is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The group of citizens from the "westerse lands" includes well below 5000 people, is led by a group of 1670 Germans and in its entirety mainly affects European officials, for example the European Patent Office located in Rijswijk near Delft and their families who are have mostly not settled permanently in the Netherlands, but return to their home countries after their secondment or after the end of their service. However, this also applies to parts of the rest of the EU citizens as well as Turkey, which is one of the member states of the European Patent Organization .

The group of citizens from the “niet westerse landen” is led by the Turks with 2366 people, followed by Surinamers with 2303 and nied. Antilles / Aruba with 1519 people.

Religions

The Nieuwe Kerk on the market square. Here is William of Orange buried
The synagogue on Koornmarkt
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque on Martinus Nijhofflaan

According to the Permanent Onderzoek Leefsituatie (POLS) survey by the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) from 2001 to 2003, 29.7 percent of Delft's Roman Catholic faiths in 2000/2003 and 24.8 percent belonged to one of the Protestant churches ; for Islam to 5.2 percent known. 37.6 percent said they did not belong to any religious community.

Hippolytus of Rome is the city's patron saint . The Oude Kerk was consecrated to him until the Reformation in 1583 . In 1804 the newly founded Catholic parish in Delft old town was named after him, and in 1972 the former chapel of the Delft Holy Spirit Sisters, the Sint Hippolytuskapel . The neo-Gothic Maria van Jessekerk has been the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish in Delft since 1971 , which also includes four other churches and is consecrated to St. Ursula of Cologne .

In 1821, a Jewish community was founded in Delft , but never more than 200 people. In 1840 a small Jewish school and a cemetery were built near today's Vondelstraat and Geertruyt van Oostenstraat, and in 1862 a synagogue was built at Koornmarkt 12 . In World War II, most of the Jewish inhabitants were deported and murdered. After the war, the Delft Jewish community was merged with The Hague. The synagogue has been preserved, renovated and is available for religious and cultural events.

The Muslim community of Delft consists of around 2300 people. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque at Martinus Nijhofflaan 80 dates from 1995.

story

The leaning tower of the Oude Kerk , built 1325–50

City foundation and economic rise (11th to 16th centuries)

The founding of Delft goes back to Gottfried the Buckligen , who in 1071 built a Fronhof on an elevated point and dug an artificial watercourse (today's Oude Delft ) to forestall the threatening siltation of the Gantel River . From this channel probably the city name is derived from: delf is a Middle Dutch term for canal. Due to its preferred location, the place developed early on into an important trading center - which the large market square heralds to this day. On April 15, 1246, Wilhelm von Holland granted Delft town charter . Also various monasteries and conventswere founded in the city from that time. City expansions took place in 1268 and 1355. With this, the city area reached its current size of around 100 hectares. The city fortifications, of which the east gate has been preserved, was built between the end of the 14th and mid-15th centuries.

Initially, local trade was based on agricultural products, but in the course of the 13th century the cloth trade was added. The brewing industry dominated between around 1350 and 1500. At the beginning of the 16th century Delft had around 100 breweries. In order to be able to participate directly in maritime trade and to no longer have to pay duties and taxes to Rotterdam, a canal, the Delfshavense Schie , was dug to the Nieuwe Maas in 1389 , at the mouth of which the Delfshaven seaport (now a district of Rotterdam ) was built. Trade, brewing and weaving gave the city its first heyday.

The Oude Kerk was built in the oldest part of the city as early as the beginning of the 13th century, and the Nieuwe Kerk was founded on the market square in 1351. The town hall was built there in the second quarter of the 15th century, although it had to be rebuilt from 1618 to 1620 after a fire. The Spital am Kornmarkt was built in the 13th century and was first mentioned in 1252. In 1271 the beguinage was built.

In 1246 the municipal government consisted of a mayor (judge), seven lay judges and two jurors or councilors. After 1400 there were four mayors, around 1450 a committee of forties.

City map after the city fire of 1536

From the 14th to the 17th century, Delft was one of the most important cities in the county of Holland. Because Delft was one of the six cities that had a seat and vote in the " Staten ", which represented the Estates of Holland. Around 1400 it had about 6500 inhabitants and was the third largest city after Dordrecht (8000) and Haarlem (7000). Around 1560, Amsterdam, with 28,000 inhabitants, was the undisputed largest city, but Delft had also grown to around 14,000 inhabitants and shared second place with Leiden and Haarlem.

On May 3, 1536, a city fire, probably caused by a lightning strike in the then still wooden spire of the Nieuwe Kerk , destroyed large areas of Delft. 2,300 houses are said to have gone up in flames.

Economic decline, denominational wars, House of Orange

The city got into economic hardship due to the conflict between the United Provinces and Spain, which led to the Eighty Years War in 1568 and made trade increasingly difficult for Dutch cities, including Delft, and finally outside the province of Hollandmade almost impossible. Of the original 140 breweries that had settled in the city, 98 in 1514 and only 25 in 1645 remained. Another reason for the downfall of the breweries was that the water from the Schie, which was used to make beer, deteriorated so much due to the rapidly increasing merchant shipping that it could no longer be used. The cloth industry developed in a similar way, even if it experienced further booms in the 16th and 17th centuries. Up to two thirds of all Delft families lost their livelihood as a result of these upheavals.

Wilhelm's grand tomb in the Nieuwe Kerk

During the Eighty Years' War Delft became a center of resistance against the Spaniards, after various cities and areas had already escaped the power of Spain around 1570. In 1572, Prince Willem van Oranje moved his residence to Delft, to the former Sint Agathaklooster , which has since been called the Prinsenhof . In the chapel belonging to the monastery, his daughter Louise Juliana was baptized in 1576, and it was here that Frederik Hendrik becameborn. The prince had his private rooms on the first floor of the northeast corner of the building. In March 1584 a staircase was built from these rooms to the dining room below. There he succumbed to an assassination attempt on July 10, 1584, the bullet holes can still be seen on the spot today. William of Orange was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) because the previous family grave in Breda was occupied by the Spaniards. Since then the church has served as the burial place of the Orange people . So far, 46 members of the Dutch royal family have found their final resting place here.

Delft in the "Golden Age"

View of Delft (Jan Vermeer), around 1660/1661

The maritime magazine in Delfshaven around 1672

In the 17th century, during the Golden Age of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, Delft developed into a thriving trading post and a cultural and scientific center of Holland.

Politically, the almost independent city was ruled by a handful of almighty rulers who were closely related to one another and who ruled the city government in an oligarchic system. Important Delft regent dynasties of the Golden Century were the families Pauw , Van der Graeff , Van Adrichem and the Van der Dussen .

One of the six chambers of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) was founded here in 1602. With a fleet of more than a hundred ships, six branches in the Netherlands, offices in Asia and thousands of employees, the company has become the largest trading company in the world. Three times a year Delft traders sent a merchant fleet eastwards, which returned with spices, coffee, tea, Chinese porcelain and other luxury goods to the Republic of the United Provinces and to Delft. In 1631 the company acquired a complex of houses on the Oude Delf , which they expanded into an Oostindisch Huis and over time expanded it to include several packing houses, which later also included the Armamentarium (and today's Legermuseum). At theWestvest built a Reeperbahn in 1670 , and at the Oostpoort , wood tar was burned in " pitch ovens " on a large scale . In Delfshaven, the VOC initially operated one and from 1702 three shipyards, where a total of 111 ships were built for the company by 1813. In 1672 the company had an imposing sea magazine built at the port (which burned down in 1746 and was replaced by a simpler building) and employed hundreds of dock workers.

The city's cultural heyday was consolidated by Jan Vermeer, born in 1632, the city's most famous son and one of the most famous painters of the Golden Age. With artists like Carel Fabritius and Pieter de Hooch he formed the "Delft School of Painting", united in the Guild of St. Luke .

"Delfts Blauw"

After porcelain from Nanjing, China, could be sold on the European luxury goods market with high profit margins, Dutch manufacturers began to produce exotic motifs and the precious, fine craftsmanship of ceramics with Delftwareto imitate. The Delfters were the most successful. Soon, typically Dutch motifs were also used, which were taken in particular from Vermeer's and de Hooch's pictures. When imports were disrupted from 1657 due to political unrest in China, Delft ceramics found great sales throughout Europe. Around 1600 there were only two pottery shops in Delft, in 1660 there were 26, and in 1695 32 porcelain factories had settled in Delft, which, due to the simultaneous decline of the breweries and weaving mills, had access to suitable premises and willing craftsmen and helpers and more than 1,600 people busy.

Egbert van der Poel : View of Delft after the explosion of 1654

In the 17th century Delft was the location of the main arsenal of the Dutch provincial armed forces and kept the Secreet van Hollandt , "Holland's secret": the cellar of the former Clarissenklooster in the middle of the city, on the Paardenmarkt , was used as a secret storage facility for around 40,000 kilograms of gunpowder. In October 1654 a huge explosion left the city in ruins. Hundreds were killed, a third of all downtown houses were destroyed. Carel Fabritius was one of the victims of the catastrophe, which went down in history as the " Delft Thunderbolt ", a Rembrandt student. To be on the safe side, the new weapons depot was built in 1660 "op de afstand van een kanonskogel" - at a distance of a cannon ball, that is, well outside the city walls on the Schie (Schiekade 1). The architect was Pieter Post .

From 1672, the Rampjaar (disaster year), Delft's flourishing economy went downhill. In addition to the economic problems that the whole country had to contend with, Delft was increasingly being supplanted as a trading center by Rotterdam and The Hague. Even the production of faience fell into a deep crisis, as the production could not keep up with industrially manufactured mass goods such as the British Wedgwoodware . One workshop after another had to close. A few companies were initially able to survive because they temporarily produced bricks in addition to normal porcelain. Ultimately, only the De Porceleyne Fles factory remained.

Industrialization up to the First World War

Delft around 1865

Agnetapark residential complex with its own park area

In the age of industrialization , the Netherlands initially lagged significantly behind its neighboring countries in terms of industrial development. Due to the nationwide need for technical training, King Willem II founded the Koninklijke Academie voor Burgelijke Ingenieurs (Royal Academy for Civil Engineers) in Delft on January 8, 1842 , the forerunner of today's Technical University , which quickly made the city an important one scientific location and attracted technology-oriented companies.

There were also a number of research institutes, such as the Institute for Standardization (Nederlands Normalisatie Instituut) and the Weights and Measures Office (Nederlands Meetinstituut) . The academy moved into the vacant building of the artillery school that had moved away . In 1864 the academy was closed again, but instead a polytechnic school was opened, the focus of which was on the training of architects and engineers for road, water and shipbuilding as well as tool and mining. The school received an academic level from 1905 when it became a Polytechnic Hogeschool . The grand opening by Queen Wilhelminatook place on July 10, 1905. In 1986 the name was changed to the Technical University of Delft .

After the city walls were razed in the 19th century, a train station was built and the Dutch rail network was connected in 1847, the city attracted new industries, mainly pharmaceuticals and chemicals. Also the Gisten Spiritusfabriek (later Gist Brocades , now part of the Koninklijke DSM NV (DSM)), Calvé (sauces and peanut butter), which is now part of the Unilever group, and Delft Instruments(Optical technologies, also for military purposes) settled in the city. Due to the onset of tourism and international demand, the porcelain industry was preparing to achieve a high status again, even if its products are often criticized as mass-produced goods.

In the 19th century, the bourgeoisie settled primarily in spacious mansions in the city center on the Spoorsingel or Niewe Plantage ; to constantly accommodate the city aspiring workers and their families, were from 1878 workers housing estates built at the city limits, as the Westerkwartier and a little later Vrijenban and Hof van Delft , which were incorporated 1,921th The owner of the Gist- und Spiritusfabriek, Jacques van Marken , set up the Agnetapark named after her for himself and his wife Agneta Matthes immortal, the construction of which is considered to be the first social housing, in which particular attention was paid to hygienic living conditions in a green, livable environment.

During the First World War there was no fighting in Delft, as in the rest of the Netherlands, which had remained neutral. Delft was affected by the strong stream of refugees that began when the Belgians fled by the hundreds of thousands to the neighboring country after the Germans had captured their country on August 4, 1914, in addition to Rotterdam and the other large cities.

Second world war, resistance

Ju 52 aircraft set on fire after landing, shortly after the first aircraft landed on May 10, 1940 in Delft

Monument in Ypenburg, Ilsy plantsoen , which commemorates the Second World War. The inscription reads: Overvallen, niet Fail (invaded, not defeated).

During the Second World War, units of German Army Group B attacked the neutral Netherlands on May 10, 1940 as part of the German Western Offensive . The aim of the attack was the fortress of Holland and the capture of the government center in The Hague. The Ypenburg airfield, located directly on the northeastern city limits of Delft , played an important role in this. The Germans conquered the area with a large-scale deployment of parachute and airborne troops, while the German 18th Army attacked with ground troops. Since the 17th century Delft has been the location of the Staatse Affuitmakerij , a state carriage maker, in which hand weapons were also produced. The extensive factory site, which employed up to 500 workers, was located in the northern old town, a stone's throw from the contested airfield. German paratroopers occupied this and another industrial area on the Schie, where a laboratory was located. There were firefights in the city, but the city was spared major fighting or bombing. In view of the hopeless prospect of Allied support and in order to avoid similar catastrophes in other cities after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Netherlands surrendered on May 15. Around 100 Delfters had lost their lives in these days.

Furthermore, 190 Delft students who resisted the German occupation were killed in the course of the Second World War . On November 25, 1940, the Delft student uprising took place. With the uprising, students, professors and employees of the Delft Technical University protested against the dismissal of all Jews working in authorities. This suspension also affected professors, lecturers and assistants from Delft University. After the announcement on November 23, 1940, the 27-year-old student Frans van Hasselt started a sit-in on the steps of the faculty building. Many students joined him and boycotted the lectures of the newly appointed "Aryan" professors. Van Hasselt was arrested and taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp where he died on November 10, 1942.

Today street names in Delft are reminiscent of students and professors who fell victim to the resistance, for example the Van Hasseltlaan , the Mekelweg or the Schoenmakerstraat .

The strike of Dutch workers in February 1941 was also initiated by the Delft student uprising. Around 300,000 workers were unemployed in the Netherlands; within a year food prices had risen by more than 36%, which further exacerbated the need. On February 25th, a strike broke out spontaneously in the factories in Amsterdam; the workers protested against the deterioration in their living conditions and called for an end to the persecution of the Jews. On February 26th, the mass strike spread to large parts of Randstad, including Delft.

After 1945

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Dutch cinema news about the city's 700th anniversary celebrations, 1946

Major fire at TU Delft, May 2008

After the Second World War, Delft expanded further, especially in a southerly direction. Delft-Zuidwest with Poptahof, Voorhof and Buitenhof was created as a completely new district on an extensive polder area acquired from Schipluiden . At the same time, Delftse Hout was created in the east as a nature reserve, green lung and local recreation area. In the 1980s, the Tanthof was developed as a residential area.

Since 1999 the municipality has been planning a comprehensive urban development project, referred to in short as the Spoortunnel Delft . Because the starting point was the construction of a railway tunnel to replace the railway viaduct across Delft and a new central station. 1,500 apartments and offices, a park and an underground car park for cars and bicycles will be built on the 40 hectare station area that has been freed up. The earthworks began at the end of 2008, the last train rolled over the viaduct on February 22, 2015, the railway tunnel was put into operation on February 28, 2015 and officially named Willem van Oranjetunnel in April 2015inaugurated. The old viaduct was demolished. Construction work for the entire project is expected to continue until 2023.

In the 2000s there were various events related to the royal family in the city: On October 15, 2002, Claus von Amsberg , Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix , was buried in the grave cellar of the New Church, followed by Queen on March 30, 2004 Juliana , mother of Queen Beatrix, and on December 11, 2004 Prince Bernhard , father of Queen Beatrix. On April 24, 2004, Prince Johan Friso and Mabel Wisse Smit were married in the Old Church.

On May 13, 2008, the building used by the Faculty of Building at Delft University of Technology burned down to the ground within 12 hours.

On August 19, 2008, the asteroid (12716) Delft was named after the city.

Old town hall on the market
Nieuwe Kerk
Oude Kerk
Merchants' houses on the market square

politics

As is typical for the Netherlands, Delft has an extensive party landscape. In the local elections in 2006, 18 political parties ran for election, ten of which were elected to the local council. In the city, which is traditionally governed by social democracy, the grassroots movement Leefbaar Nederland (Dutch for “worth living”) has been able to establish itself since 2002 and did not suffer as heavy losses in the 2006 elections as in many other municipalities.

In the Dutch administrative structure, the gemeenteraad (municipal council) is the highest administrative body in the municipality, followed by the college van burgemeester en wethouders (college of mayors and councilors), which manages the municipality. The third body is the mayor, who is not elected by the people but is appointed by the interior minister and who runs the administration together with the councilors.

In addition, Delft is the headquarters of the Delfland Water and Soil Association (Hoogheemraadschap Delfland) , as well as part of the Haaglanden Regional Association (kaderwetgebied Haaglanden) .

Municipal council

Until 2018 the Delft municipal council had 37 seats. Since then there are 39 seats. The last municipal council elections so far took place on March 21, 2018. After the Democrats 66 emerged victorious in 2010 and 2014, the GroenLinks party won the election in 2018.

Political party	Election 1994		Election 1998		Election 2002		2006 election		Election 2010		Election 2014		Election 2018
Political party	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%	Seats	%
GroenLinks	4th	10.0%	4th	11.5%	4th	10.7%	4th	10.5%	5	12.2%	4th	10.4%	7th	15.9%
Student Techniek in Politiek (STIP)	1	4.6%	2	5.8%	3	8.2%	2	7.0%	3	8.0%	4th	11.6%	6th	14.8%
Democrats 66 (D66)	6th	14.5%	3	7.8%	1	4.7%	1	4.1%	6th	15.6%	8th	19.7%	5	13.6%
Onafhankelijk Delft	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	7.6%	4th	11.4%	5	11.8%
Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD)	4th	11.2%	6th	16.2%	5	13.1%	4th	11.1%	4th	10.9%	3	8.1%	3	8.9%
Christian Democratic Appèl (CDA)	6th	15.6%	6th	14.6%	6th	15.2%	5	11.7%	4th	10.1%	3	7.6%	3	8.3%
Socialist Party (SP)	1	2.8%	2	6.3%	1	3.5%	3	8.8%	2	5.5%	3	8.5%	3	7.8%
Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)	7th	17.6%	10	24.4%	7th	17.7%	11	24.9%	6th	15.2%	4th	9.1%	3	7.3%
ChristenUnie	1	4.0%	1	4.1%	1	3.6%	1	3.6%	1	3.9%	2	4.4%	2	5.9%
City issues	5	14.0%	3	7.6%	3	7.6%	2	6.3%	2	7.4%	2	6.4%	2	5.8%
Leefbaar Delft	-	-	-	-	6th	15.7%	4th	9.6%	1	3.2%	-	-	-	-
Center Democrats (CD)	2	5.9%	-	1.7%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Others	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.3%	-	0.4%	-	2.7%	-	-
Total	37	100%	37	100%	37	100%	37	100%	37	100%	37	100%	39	100%

Sources: Delft municipality : 2018 municipal council elections ; Kiesraad : municipal council elections 1994–2014

mayor

The first traditional mayor of Delft was Jan Pietersz van Buijten in 1454 from a wealthy and influential Naaldwijk family.

Mayor has been Marja van Bijsterveldt (* 1961) since September 2, 2016 . She is a member of the CDA . She succeeded Bas Verkerk (* 1958) from VVD , who held the post for twelve years.

Mayor's College

Mayor Marja van Bijsterveldt's council includes the alderman Martina Huijsmans ( D66 ), Bas Vollebregt ( STIP ), Stephan Brandligt ( GroenLinks ), Karin Schrederhof ( PvdA ), Hatte van der Woude ( VVD ) and the municipal secretary Hans Krul .

badges and flags

The Delft coat of arms

The Delft coat of arms consists of a silver shield, topped with a black pole , which can be made with or without silver waves. This post stands for a canal , the old name of which is delft . The simple coat of arms was officially established in 1816 by the Hoge raad van de Adel .

The blazon reads:

“Van zilver loaded with a pal van sabel. Het wapen gedekt met eene kroon met 5 fleurons, all van goud, en vastgehouden door 2 klimmende leeuwen van keel. "

(Silver, topped with a black pole. On top of the coat of arms is a golden crown with five ornamental leaves, held by two looking, soaring red lions.)

The municipality flag shows three horizontal strips, the middle one being black and the outer one being white. It was only officially introduced by the local council in 1996, but had been in use for centuries, for example the Delft VOC ships carried it.

Town twinning

Delft maintains town twinning with Aarau in Switzerland , Adapazarı in Turkey , Freiberg in Germany and Kfar Saba in Israel .

There are also partnerships with Estelí in Nicaragua and Tshwane in South Africa .

In addition to the town twinning with Freiberg in Saxony in what was then the GDR in 1986, a town twinning with Castrop-Rauxel (North Rhine-Westphalia) had existed since 1950 . The latter was dissolved by mutual agreement in July 2000 after German reunification , mainly because Delft wanted to concentrate on Freiberg as an up-and-coming university town from the new federal states in search of an exchange of experiences in the fields of economy, science and new technologies. In 2018 the relationship with the city in Saxony was also ended.

Culture, sights and leisure

Buildings and places

Voldersgracht

Korenbeurs, formerly Vleeshall

Camerettes and a view of the Nieuwe Kerk

The East India House

Legermuseum

Oostpoort

The de Roos mill after being transferred to the newly built spoorsingel

After two disasters, the great fire of 1536 and the destruction of large parts of the city center by the explosion of the gunpowder depot in 1654, the view of Delft old town, largely unchanged, dates from the late 17th century, from the time when Vermeer wrote his view of Delft painted.

Centrally located is the large market square, where Thursday is market day and where the Nieuwe Kerk is on the east and the Stadhuis on the west. The other two sides are framed by beautiful gabled houses that house restaurants, cafes, shops and souvenir shops.

The construction of the Nieuwe Kerk began in the 14th century. Its slender tower - recognizable in Vermeer's picture in the middle at the back - blends in harmoniously with the overall picture of the historic city center, although it was built in several stages from the end of the 14th to the beginning of the 16th century and destroyed several times by fires. In the church is the mausoleum of William of Orange, the founder of the Dutch Republic. Hendrick de Keyser began construction in 1614 and his son Pieter completed it eight years later. The Nieuwe Kerk serves as the burial church of the House of Orange ; Traditionally the members of theburied by the Dutch royal family. In front of the church is a monument from the 18th century commemorating the "father of international law ", Hugo Grotius , who was born in 1583 on the Nieuwe Langedijk in Delft.

Vermeer grew up on the market in the Mechelen tavern run by his mother , which was located behind the church at 25 Voldersgracht. He later moved with his own family into a house on Oude Langedijk , on the other side of the church. Both houses no longer exist.

At Voldersgracht 1 is the Korenbeurs ( Grain Exchange ), where a grain exchange was located from 1870 to the beginning of the 20th century, from which the building owes its name. Today there is a non-profit youth association in the building. The place used to be a vleeshal (meat hall), the cellar of which was built between 1295 and 1350 to store the meat. Above it was a wooden hall in which the meat trade took place. In 1650 the wooden building was replaced by the current classical building designed by the architect Hendrik Swaef .

Opposite the Nieuwe Kerk is the Stadhuis (town hall), a Renaissance building with lions' heads built by Hendrick de Keyser in 1620 - the landmark of the then young Dutch republic. The tower, called Nieuwe Steen (new stone), comes from the medieval town hall, which burned down completely in 1618.

Behind the town hall is de Waag , the former city scales . One of the most important with the granting of city rightsrelated rights, which Delft received in 1246, was the operation of a city scale. According to a city ordinance, traders were obliged to have weights that were heavier than ten pounds checked on the city scales. This encouraged fair trade, which was necessary for Delft to develop as a market and trading place. The Libra was probably opened at this location after the city fire of 1536. In 1644 a neighboring house was added. This extension can still be seen in today's guest rooms. The scales were used until 1960, after which a theater was housed in the building until 1995. The De Waag city café has been located there since 1996 .

Further west, past the Visbanken on the Kaakbrug , between the Cameretten to Wijnhaven and Botermarkt , is Oude Delft , the oldest residential area and the most elegant district in the center. It is bordered by the Oude Delft canal, the Voorstraat, the Hypolytusbuurt district and the Koornmarkt.

The Renaissance house at Oude Delft 39 with the letters V O C is the Oostindische Huis , from 1602 the seat of the Delft Chamber of the United East India Company (VOC). Since 1989 there have been luxurious private apartments in the renovated building under the house name “Oostindiëplaats”. The weathered house at Oude Delft 167 was built in 1510 in the opulent Brabant Gothic style and is one of the few houses that survived the great fire of 1536 unscathed. The house at Oude Delft 169 is adorned with the coat of arms of Savoy from 1565. The bridge at the end of the Oude Delft marks the location of a former city gate, the Rotterdamsepoort, which can still be seen in the foreground of Vermeer's view of Delft. Today only one of Delft's eight medieval gates - the Oostpoort - remains .

Nearby is the Prinsenhof , the former Sint-Agathaklooster at St. Agathaplein 1, where William of Orange resided and was murdered in 1584. The Stedelijk Museum has been housed in the Prinsenhof since 1951. It shows , among other things, an extensive collection of topographical maps , medieval sculptures and Delftware and maintains a permanent exhibition on the Golden Age. The museum includes the Burgundian-Gothic nunnery with old tiled floors and lead-glazed windows that look out onto a romantic garden. In the Moordzaal there , the bullet holes from Balthasar Gérard's gun can be seen that were fired at William of Orange.

Opposite the Prinsenhof is the Oude Kerk (Old Church), with its sloping to the west "Leaning Tower", popularly de oude January called. It was built in the 14th and 15th centuries, and in the 16th century Anthonis Keldermans added a Gothic transept . The famous natural scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek , the two seafarers Maarten Tromp and Piet Pieterszoon Heyn and Delft's most famous son, the painter Jan Vermeer, are buried in the Oude Kerk . The church has three organs and a bell weighing almost 9,000 kilograms, the “ Bourdon“From 1570, which for safety reasons is only rung on special occasions.

At the southern end of the Oude Delft are the Zuidwal , the Vliet and their harbor basin de Kolk . Across the harbor is the Hooikade , the place from where Vermeer painted his view of Delft .

At Korte Geer 1 there is a massive brick building in the water, the former arsenal of the republics of Holland and West Friesland, called the Armentarium . Its function is represented by the bearded figure of the god of war Mars , who sits on a lion and a pile of weapons. Today the Legermuseum (Royal Dutch Army Museum) is housed in the building.

The Royal Delft Faience De Porceleyne Fles anno 1653 on Rotterdamseweg 196, which produced Delft blue for the first time in 1653, is the only one that has survived.

Molen de Roos is a grain mill originally built on the city fortifications from 1728, which until a few years ago stood in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, wedged between the elevated railway line and the tram line as a traffic island. In the course of the complete restructuring of the area around the station, the windmill was moved as a whole and is now a few hundred meters further south in a more spacious place with less traffic.

In the former building of the Heilige Geest Institute , Molslaan 104, there was a foundling house in the 16th century. Today's Heilige Geesthuis originally reached up to the castle wall and was around 70 meters long. In 1978 it was converted into the “De Mol” tavern.

In terms of contemporary architecture, the TU library is worth mentioning, a multi-award-winning building from 1997 with a lawn on the sloping roof.

Hofjes

In Delft, too, the Hofjes culture became established in the 16th century. Hofjes are residential complexes consisting of individual residential buildings and communal facilities, which are built around a central courtyard and were donated by wealthy merchants as free apartments for the elderly for their employees or groups of people without their own income or assets. Four Hofjesanlage have been preserved in the city area:

Hofje van Gratie

A Hofje for single women founded by Pieter Sasbout in 1575.

Klaeuwshofje

A Hofje for Roman Catholic unmarried women and widows on the Oranje plantation, founded in 1605 by Dirck and Elizabeth Uyttenhage, the owners of the de Klaeuw brewery.

Hofje van Pauw

The Hofje was built in 1707 on the basis of Elizabeth Pauw's will on Paardenmarkt. Pauw was the daughter of the mayor Jacob Pauw and the widow of Johan van der Dussen and then his cousin Dirck van der Dussen, both of whom were also mayors of Delft.

Hofje van Almonde

Originally founded in 1607 as the Bagijnhof ( Beguinage ). The current houses date from 1855.

Cinema and theater

The new movie theater MustSee (since 2010 Pathé )

Delft has two cinemas , since 1996 the Filmhuis Lumen on Doelenplein, which has specialized in art films, and for the area of public films, since the end of 2006, MustSee on Vesteplein with spectacular architecture and 1,345 sofa-like seats, which is one of the largest the Netherlands counts. When it opened, Delfia , the largest cinema to date, closed on the inland watersloot . In 2010 the MustSee was taken over by the French cinema group Pathé .

There are also four theaters in Delft. After the traditional Waagtheater am Markt had to be closed in 1994 due to fire damage, a new building was built on the Vesteplein, which houses the Theater an der Veste with around 500 seats and was opened in 1995. The Microtheater in the Kerkstraat has existed since 1939 and is run by the amateur theater group de Flits . The Flora Theater opposite Doelenplein was built in 1894 by the Katholieke Volksbond . In the 1970s it degenerated into a poorly run porn movie theater and stood empty for a few years. It was restored in 1984. Since then, various theater and dance groups have performed there. TheFalie Begijnhoftheater mainly shows performances for children and young people.

Downtown Delft was a central location for Werner Herzog's film Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night in 1978 .

Museums

The Het Prinsenhof museum is located in the former Sint Agathakloster. Paintings and other objects tell the story of the Eighty Years' War. The museum also has a wonderful collection of art from the 17th century. The traces of the monastery are still clearly visible in the magnificent complex.

The Vermeercentrum , dedicated to Jan Vermeer , opened in April 2007.

The Koninklijk Nederlands Legermuseum was an army museum that showed exhibits on armed conflicts from prehistory to the two world wars and the UN peace missions of the last decades. At the beginning of 2013, the museum at its previous location was closed. The collection was merged with that of the Militaire Luchtvaart Museum in the Nationaal Militair Museum in Soesterberg , which opened at the end of 2014 .

Until March 2008, the Techniek Museum Delft was located at 61 Ezelsveldlaan. It was merged into the “Science Center” at the beginning of 2009, which has since been operated by the Technical University.

The porcelain manufacturer Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles offers factory tours that show how “Delfts Blauw”, the hand-painted Delft porcelain, is made.

In the reptile zoo Serpo include snakes, spiders and crocodiles to see.

The Lambert van Meerten museum is a neo-Renaissance canal building that was the private home of the Delft factory owner and art collector Lambert van Meerten (1842–1904) and has been accessible as a museum since 1909. The collection includes furniture, wood carvings, weapons and paintings. Jan Schouten's extensive collection of tiles can also be seen.

The Botanical Garden of the TU Delft was established in 1917 by the Delft professor Gerrit van Iterson and is two and a half hectares in size.

In the Medisch Farmaceutisch Museum De Griffioen you can see medical and nursing instruments, a historic pharmacy and Reinier de Graaf's study .

The Mineralogische tuin Delft (Mineralogical Garden Delft) is located in a historical building of the TU Delft. Some of the world-famous fossils from the Holzmaden fossil site are on display in the corridors of the building .

Het Tabaks Historisch Museum Delft (Historical Tobacco Museum) emerged from a private collection. The main theme is the history of the Delft tobacco industry, such as the oldest cigar factory in the Netherlands by Albertus Hillen (founded in 1770).

Winkeltje Kouwenhoven (winkeltje means "little shop") is a drugstore founded in 1867 by the chemist Kouwenhoven, whose establishment, mostly from 1931, has become a museum shop on the site of the community museum at Sint Agathaplein 3a.

The Gereedschap museum Mensert (Tool Museum Mensert) has a collection of tools from various trades and shows, for example, the workplaces of a cooper and a carpenter.

The Paul Tétar van Elven Museum is located on the Koornmarkt . The artist of the same name lived there in the 19th century, who tried to furnish rooms in the style of Vermeer's paintings. Today a large collection of oriental porcelain and Delftware can be seen there.

Sports

Delft offers a wide variety of sports that can be practiced in over 150 sports clubs and a number of sports fields and halls:

Local football is not the focus of interest. Even though there are 13 football clubs in the city and the DHC Delft played mostly in the first division in men's football between 1932 and 1953, football fans have been turning to one of the nearby Rotterdam clubs, Feyenoord , Sparta, since the introduction of professional football and (until 2008) Excelsior have three clubs in the Eredivisie , the highest Dutch football league. Delft women's football flourished when the ladies of the KFC'71 founded in 1971(Kruikelientjes Football Club) were Dutch champions in 1985/86 and 1988/89. The club did not make the jump into the new top division Eredivisie in 2007 , but play in the second division, the Hoofdklasse .

Some of the most popular sports in Delft include ice and water sports, hockey and rugby.

Rowing
The Delftse Students Roeivereniging Proteus-Eretes (DSR) is the largest Dutch rowing club. Members have already won a large number of Olympic medals, for example a silver medal went to Gerritjan Eggenkamp at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Carin ter Beek won silver in Sydney and Niels van der Zwan won a gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta .
The Delft students Roeivereeniging "Laga" (DSRV) produced Eeke Geertruida van Nes (* 1969 in Delft) (the daughter of the silver medalist fromMexico City 1968, Hadriaan van Nes ) who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and two silver medals four years later in Sydney .
Hockey
The hockey club Haagsche Delftsche Mixed is a club founded in 1908 made up of members from The Hague and Delft, whose men won the national title in 1924, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1941, 1942 and 1992, while the women's team won in 2007-2008.
The Delftsche Student Hockey Club (DSHC) , founded in 1898, belongs to the student association Delftsch Student Corps (DSC) and is considered the best Dutch student hockey club; both the women's and men's teams play in the first division.
The Sanctus Virgilius Hockey Club Dopie (DOe Potdomme IEts), or SVHC Dopie for short , was founded in 1946 and also plays in the first division.
Both clubs play on the hockey fields of the sports center of the TU Delft.
Rugby
The team of the Delftsche Student Rugby Club (DSR-C.) Founded in 1918 plays in the first Dutch league. Club membership is reserved for male students at the TU Delft and is subject to certain requirements, which is why the club is often criticized as being too elitist.
Another rugby club is the student rugby club SRC Thor , which has had a women's division since 1983 and has been national champion several times. The men play in the third division, the women in the highest; in the 2005/2006 season they were runner-up.
Golf
The Delfland golf course was founded by the Haagsche Delftsche Mixed hockey club and, in addition to the hockey fields, includes a golf course with a par 3 and an 18-hole course, which is currently being expanded to 27 holes. Golf Course Delfland is the first Dutch golf club that does not require membership. Anyone can play there if they have a license to play and have paid an entrance fee.

For popular sports there are two swimming pools, the Zwembad Kerkpolder and the Sportfondsenbad , three sports halls, the Sporthal Brasserskade , De Buitenhof , Grotius College , Fretstraat and two sports facilities, the TU Delft Sports Center and the Tanthof-Zuid Sports Park .

Events

Westerpop is a two-day pop festival that has been held annually in August since 1989. Developed from a district festival in the Westerkwartier, it has been held on the sports grounds of Grotius College since 1996 and has attracted around 15,000 visitors in recent years. In addition to live concerts and street theater, there is also a festival market. Entry to all events is free, the organizers and many artists work on a voluntary basis.

Taptoe Delft is a military music parade ( Taptoe ) held in the Delft Market from 1954 to 1974 and in Breda from 1975 to 1995 , returning to Delft in 1996. Since then, the event has been organized every second year in September. Up to 1000 national and international musicians in military bands, marching bands and show bands then march in a street parade to the market, where they play together.

The Delft Jazz Festival has been held annually in August since 1985. Jazz musicians and bands play in various squares in the city center.

de Mooiweerspelen , the fair weather games, presented for the first time in 1988, take place in June as street theater in various places in the city center.

The Delft Chamber Music Festival , an annual chamber music festival in the van Mandelezaal in the Prinsenhof, first took place in 1997.

Recreation

Delftse Hout towards Nootdorpse plassen (Nootdorf Lake District)

Despite its high population density, Delft has a lot of green spaces. In addition to countless small green spaces, there is an arboretum with a nature park and the city park, called Wilhelminapark , in the center, while Agnetapark is located just outside the center , an idea created in 1884 by the landscape architect Louis Paul Zocher, based on an idea by the married couple Jacob van Marken and Agneta Matthes-van Brands for the employees of the Nederlandsche Gist- & Spiritusfabriek NV and named after Agneta Matthes in a green area. There is a botanical garden on the grounds of the TU Delft with more than three thousand plant species.

Directly behind the north-eastern city limits, in the direction of Pijnacker , lies the local recreation area Delftse Hout , which merges into the Nootdorper recreational areas Nootdorpsep Klassen and Dobbeplas . The lakes de Grote Plas and Dobbeplas are used for swimming in summer and ice-skating in winter.

Then there are the Vlietlanden in Midden-Delfland , some of which are under nature protection, but have meanwhile also been expanded into an extensive recreational area around a 150-hectare lake.

economy

On January 1, 2007, Delft had 3,134 establishments and institutions employing 47,299 people, well in excess of Delft's active workforce of around 39,000 employees.

In 2004 the average household income of the Delft population was 27,500 euros and was 0.5 percent higher than the average in the Netherlands. In 2007 it was an estimated 31,000 euros.

The economic operations are dominated by service companies, which employ a total of 8,931 people and 22 percent of the workforce, followed by healthcare companies (17 percent), education and teaching (17 percent), trade and commerce (12 percent) and industry (10 percent). Delft is relatively little affected by unemployment, which has continued to decline since 2005. On January 1, 2007, 3,032 people were registered as unemployed, which corresponds to a rate of 4.1 percent. In 2005 the rate was 9.2 percent. The unemployment rate across the country was 5.5 percent in 2007.

Commuters and commuters

Within the Randstad agglomeration, Delft is one of the peri-urban areas of both The Hague and Rotterdam - after Amsterdam the two largest agglomerationsof the country. With regard to the job situation and the flow of commuters, one would actually expect Delft to have a high number of out-commuters. The opposite is true. In a study carried out by the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS) in 2001, extensive data were collected, which also provided information about the commuting flows within the Netherlands. It was found that Delft, as a medium-sized town, has a job concentration that exceeds that of the neighboring cities in percentage terms, which results in atypical commuting flows and has a strikingly high positive commuting surplus of over 20 percent (a positive commuting surplus occurs when the number of commuters exceeds the Commuters).

54 percent of Delft jobs are filled by non-Delft workers. Most of them live within a radius of 15 kilometers, which makes it clear that Delft as a workplace primarily fulfills a regional function.

The study basically showed that there is a connection between the level of education and commuting behavior. The higher the level of training, the greater the mobility and the willingness to accept longer journeys to work. This also applies to the situation in Delft: only 39 percent of the jobs that require a scientific or academic training are occupied by locals, while at the same time the educational level of the Delft workforce is above average. This in turn means that a large proportion (55 percent) of Delft-based academics work in other communities. For employees with a medium or low level of education, this rate is significantly lower at 43 and 38 percent, respectively.

For Delft it is also true that commuting within the urban labor market regions has increased sharply over the past few decades. It is remarkable that this increase not only affects outbound and inbound commuting, but also inland commuting, i.e. the intra-regional interdependencies have become more intensive across all city regions. In the Dutch cities, this is only the case in Utrecht .

Among other things, this led to a strong increase in the number of commuters, not only in the city center, but especially on the De Lier - Delft - Pijnacker route , where, according to a study in 2006, the bicycle was clearly superior to the car. Because of this, the cycle paths in and around Delft were further expanded in 2006/2007 and given right of way and particularly short traffic light waiting times in many places.

Local businesses

The Technical University of Delft, which is also the city's largest employer

De Porceleyne Fles

DSM Gist Services BV

The Technical University of Delft, the largest employer in the city, employed 2,712 scientists and 1,859 people in the support service as of December 31, 2007. In the academic year 2006/2007, 14,299 students were enrolled in the eight faculties of the TU. The headquarters of TNO, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, has also been located in Delft since 1932. It is the second largest research institution in Europe after the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with a total of around 5,000 employees in Delft and other locations. In addition to the TU and the TNO, various research institutes and companies have settled in Delft, such as DSM Gist , the Nederlands Normalisatie Instituut(Dutch Institute for Standardization), the Nederlands Meetinstituut (Dutch Weights and Measures Office), Exact Software or Delft Instruments .

The Netherlands is a leader in hydraulic engineering . This is why students from all over the world come to the TU and the UNESCO-IHE (UNESCO Institute for Water Education), founded in 1956 and at the Institute for Hydraulic Engineering , which organizes education and training in water issues and is the largest of its kind in the world with over 14,000 graduates . In 2003 it was elevated to a UNESCO Category I educational institute.

The most important employers with more than 1000 jobs include TU Delft, DSM Gist Services BV, TNO, Stichting Reinier de Graaf Group, Pieter van Foreest and the Delft municipality. Other important settlements and employers include IKEA , Macro , Eneco Energie NV, Stichting GeoDelft, Nederlands Normalisatie-Instituut, Sincera BV, Operator groep Delft BV, Exact Software Nederland BV and GGZ Delfland.

Only one porcelain factory from the 17th century has been preserved, the royal porcelain factory De Porceleyne Fles , founded in 1653 , which is now officially called NV Koninklijke Delftsche Aardewerkfabriek “De Porceleyne Fles Anno 1653” (Royal Delft) . In addition, a number of new workshops, pottery shops and smaller manufacturers have set up shop. The oldest of them is De Delftse Pauw , which has taken the name of a traditional manufacturer and has settled in two old Dutch buildings on Delftweg on the Canal de Vliet . Nowadays, Delft pottery has again become an important economic factor for the city, mainly because of the visitors. Alone De Porceleyne Fles carried out factory tours for 140,000 visitors in 2007.

In April 2007 there were 614 retail stores in Delft with a total sales area of 146,999 square meters, including 179 supermarkets, grocery stores and shops for everyday needs.

media

There is no independent daily newspaper in Delft. Until 2005 there was the Delftsche Courant , a side edition of the Haagsche Courant . This went on in the national newspaper AD , which today contains local pages for the city. Free newspapers such as Delftse Post and Delft op Zondag also appear .

tourism

Delft is on the German-Dutch holiday route Oranier Route .

The city has 16 hotels and five guest houses with a capacity of 902 beds, plus a youth hostel, various campsites and numerous private accommodations. In 2006, 217,025 overnight stays were recorded, five percent more than in the previous year. Significantly more tourists visit the city in the form of day trips or round trips; an estimated number of at least one million annually.

The main tourist attractions are the Nieuwe and Oude Kerk with more than 164,000 registered visitors, followed by the porcelain manufacturers Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles and Delftse Pauw , which recorded around 140,000 visitors. The Legermuseum and the Prinsenhof attracted around 60,000 foreign visitors.

On January 1, 2007, 1900 employees in the Delft municipality were working in the tourism sector.

Infrastructure

traffic

Delft train station, also the seat of the local government

Cars and railways connect Delft with the two large neighboring cities. Delft is connected to the A4 Amsterdam - Woensdrecht and A13 The Hague - Rotterdam motorways . Delft has two train stations, Delft and Delft Campus , and is connected to national and international rail transport. Rotterdam International Airport is eight kilometers from the center of Delft.

The tram line 1 of the HTM (Haagsche Tramweg-Maatschappij, see also: Tram route network The Hague ) runs via Rijswijk across The Hague to Scheveningen to the Kurhaus . The plan is to continue tram 19 from Leidschendam to the TU Delft campus; For this purpose, the Sint Sebastiaansbrug south of the city center was demolished in 2019 and rebuilt by 2020. The opening of the extended tram line is planned for 2022 after numerous delays. The bus company Connexxion takes care of the inner-city traffic and the connection to the neighboring towns and communities.

The entire city center is traffic-calmed, the narrow old town streets are often closed to car traffic or designed as one-way streets. Only two areas are designed as pure pedestrian zones, the In de Veste shopping area and one area at the new Zuidpoort shopping center .

With its Fietsactieplan for the years 2005-2010, the municipality of Delft planned to be one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the Netherlands. For this purpose, the traffic routing in large areas is designed in such a way that cyclists enjoy right of way, the cycle paths will also be expanded, and in 2008 and 2010 two more will be added to the four guarded bicycle parking spaces. A bicycle underpass is currently being built under the A 13 motorway.

In the summer months, the so-called canal hoppers are available as canal taxis as a special means of transport that drive to the most important sights. A horse tram (paardentram) runs from the town hall on a historic route through the city center during the school holidays . Futuristic Velotaxis drive one or two passengers through the mostly traffic-calmed inner city and on short excursions.

Public facilities

Hospital
The Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis ( gasthuis in Dutch means next to ziekenhuis hospital and not "inn") is the Delft General Hospital with 881 beds, which also has a polyclinic for outpatient treatment. As the legal successor to the first hospital founded by Pope Innocent IV in Delft on October 11, 1252 , it is considered the oldest hospital in the Netherlands still in existence.
Dok
De Discotake Public Library , the former public library, was merged with the Delft Art Center in 2002. With one registration, you have access to more than 200,000 books, 400 magazines, 40,000 CDs and DVDs, a large sheet music collection, an extensive children's section with audio books, games and a PlayStation game collection, as well as 4000 loanable works of art from the period after 1960, music, Films, games and works of art in three libraries (on Vesteplein in the center, in Tanthof and in Voorhof)
Community archive
The community archive is located at Oude Delft 169 and houses around 850 individual holdings, including holdings from churches, associations, political parties, companies and private individuals. The oldest document is the declaration of city rights of April 15, 1246. Much of the extensive image and sound collection has been digitized and can be accessed on the Internet.

education

Delft has 16 denominational (eight Catholic, eight Protestant) and nine public elementary schools (Basisonderwijs) , including a Montessori - and a Dalton school and to further education schools (Voortgezet onderwijs) the Grotius College , the Stanislas College and a Christian Lyceum .

The University of Applied Sciences Hogeschool Inholland and the Technical University of Delft offer a higher education qualification (hoger onderwijs) .

Personalities

Born in Delft

Pontus Heuterus (1535–1602), historian and Roman Catholic clergyman

Michiel van Mierevelt (1567–1641), painter

Luise Juliana of Oranien-Nassau (1576–1644), Electress of the Palatinate

Piet Pieterszoon Heyn (1577–1629), privateer

Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), philosopher, Reformed theologian, legal scholar and early enlightener

Friedrich Heinrich of Orange (1584–1647), governor of the United Netherlands

Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne (1589–1662), painter and poet

Leonaert Bramer (1596–1674), painter

Evert van Aelst (1602–1657), still life painter

Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet (1611 / 1612–1675), painter of the Golden Age

David Beck (1621–1656), portrait painter

Egbert van der Poel (1621–1664), painter

Christoph Delphicus von Dohna (1628–1668), Swedish general and diplomat

Jan Vermeer (1632–1675), Baroque painter

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), natural scientist, builder and user of light microscopes

Anthonie Heinsius (1641–1720), statesman and councilor

Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), doctor, naturalist, chemist and scientist

Suzanne Manet (1829–1906), Dutch-French pianist

Bernard Gijlswijk (1870–1944), Roman Catholic Archbishop and Diplomat of the Holy See

Jan Thomée (1886–1954), football player

Wouter C. Braat (1903-2000), archaeologist

Joop van Nellen (1910–1992), football player

Jan Schoonhoven (1914–1994), artist

Martinus Osendarp (1916–2002), track and field athlete

Cornelis Kalkman (1928–1998), botanist

Jan Henderikse (* 1937), artist

Christina Baas-Kaiser (* 1938), speed skater

Nico Haak (1939–1990), pop singer and entertainer

Ria Stalman (* 1951), sports journalist and athlete

Theo van Lint (* 1957), armenologist

Alexander Pechtold (* 1965), politician

Ingrid van Engelshoven (* 1966), politician

Eeke van Nes (* 1969), rower

Simon Vroemen (* 1969), obstacle runner

VanVelzen (* 1978), singer and songwriter

Marieke van der Wal (* 1979), handball player

Daniël van der Stoep (* 1980), politician

Julian Jenner (* 1984), football player

Tim van der Zanden (* 1984), track and road cyclist

Aaron Meijers (* 1987), football player

Michaëlla Krajicek (* 1989), tennis player

Jesper Asselman (* 1990), racing cyclist

Arantxa Rus (* 1990), tennis player

Kelly Vollebregt (* 1995), handball player

Connected to the city

Willem van Oranje (1533–1584), took up residence in Delft in 1572, where he was assassinated in 1584.
Louise de Coligny (1555-1620). After Willem's murder, she raised both her own son and Willems' daughters in Delft, where she lived until a year before her death.
Palamedes Palamedesz (1607–1638), battle painter and portrait painter, worked and died in Delft.
Carel Fabritius (1622–1654), moved to Delft in 1650 after his marriage to Agatha van Pruyssen.
Balthasar van der Ast (1593 or 1594–1657) lived in Delft from 1632.
Jan Steen (1626–1679), lived in Delft from 1654 to 1657 and ran the De Roscam hostel at 74 Oude Delft.
Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), lived in Delft for a long time, probably from 1652 to 1661.
Reinier de Graaf (1641–1673), lived in Delft from 1666. The Delft hospital Reinier De Graaf Gasthuis is named after him.
Agneta Matthes (1847–1909), entrepreneur and founder of the Agnetapark
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), ran a pharmacy at Oude Delft 162 from 1830.
Pierre van Hauwe (1920–2009), lived in Delft since 1945.
Jan Timman (* 1951), spent his childhood and youth in Delft.
Alquin is a rock band from Delft.

literature

Gijs van der Ham: Geschiedenis van Nederland. Sun, Nijmegen 1998, ISBN 90-5875-125-2 .
Reinildis van Ditzhuyzen: Het Huis van Oranje. Uitgeverij Balans, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 90-269-6768-3 .
Rein-Arend Leeuw, Ineke VT Spaander: De stad Delft: cultuur en maatschappij van 1572 tot 1667. Prinsenhof 1982.
Rein-Arend Leeuw, Ineke VT Spaander: De stad Delft: cultuur en maatschappij van 1667 to 1813. Prinsenhof 1982.
JJ Raue: De stad Delft: vorming en ruimtelijke ontwikkeling in de late Middeleeuwen. Delft 1982.

Web links

Commons : Delft - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Delft in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Website of the municipality (Dutch, English)
Architectural monuments in Delft (Dutch)

Individual evidence

↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)

↑ Vliet is a Dutch expression for brook, sluggish river. A number of Dutch waters are so-called and are often supplemented to distinguish them, such as Delftse Vliet, Maalvliet De Pleyt, Noordvliet, Steenbergse Vliet, Roosendaalse Vliet . The Schie and the Rhine-Schie Canal are also mostly simply called Vliet by the Dutch.

↑ Geological map on fossiel.net

↑ Statistics of the municipality of Delft, January 2007 Kerncijfers 2007: Bodemgebruik en het weer ( Memento of January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 107 kB)

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 raad.delft.nl ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 131 kB) Kerncijfers 2007: Stand van de bevolking

↑ The following detailed statistics still refer to the 2007 figures.

↑ For 2007-2011, CBS, Statline, See here , September 5, 2011

↑ Shown as a graphic in the National Atlas Volksgesondheit : Religies in Nederland 2000/2003

↑ Website of the St. Ursula Parish Delft (accessed on January 23, 2019; Dutch)

↑ Delft Synagogue

↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 277.

↑ Gemeente Delft, Vakteam Monumentenzorg & Bouwkwaliteit, Gezicht op gebouwed erfgoed Delft ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), monumentennota 2007-2017 and Monumentennota, p. 16 ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.6 MB)

^ ^A ^b Marie-Cornélie Roodenburg: De Delftse pottenbakkersnering in de Gouden Eeuw (1575–1675). Uitgeverij Verloren, 1993, ISBN 90-6550-372-2 , p. 24.

↑ Delft as an industrial city in de 17e eeuw. In: De stad Delft. Cultuur en maatschappij van 1572 tot 1667. Delft 1981, pp. 79-90.

^ Roelof van Gelder, Lodewijk Wagenaar: Spurs van de Compagnie: de VOC in Nederland. De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1988, ISBN 90-6707-169-2 , pp. 41, 83, 112.

↑ Vluchtelingen in Nederland 1914-1918 (refugees in the Niederlangen 1914-1918)

^ Frans SA Beekmann, Franz Kurowski : Battle for the fortress Holland 1940.

↑ ^a ^b Loo de Jong: Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog Staatsuitgeverij, 1969–1991, ISBN 90-12-08220-X .

↑ magazine of TU Delft TUDelt a ( Memento of 16 December 2008 at the Internet Archive )

↑ Annie Huisman-Van Bergen: Omgekomen Delftse SSR-leden. Derde Bulletin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Uitgeverij Aspect, ISBN 90-5911-006-4 .

↑ Spoortunnel Delft heet Willem van Oranje Tunnel , Metro Nieuws, April 9, 2015 accessed November 28, 2016th

↑ Spoorzone Delft - De feiten op een rij , accessed on January 7, 2019.

↑ Minor Planet Circ. 63640

↑ Verkiezingen gemeenteraad ( Dutch ) Municipality of Delft. Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2019.

↑ Verkiezingen ( Dutch ) Kiesraad. Accessed in 201902-18.

↑ Marja van Bijsterveldt wordt nieuwe burgemeester Delft. In: Algemeen Dagblad . De Persgroep Nederland , June 2, 2016, accessed May 26, 2018 (Dutch).

^ College Gemeente Delft, accessed January 7, 2019 (Dutch)

^ Wapen van Delft ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Termination Agreement ( Memento of September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch and German; PDF; 106 kB)

↑ By post - Delft ends town twinning FP, June 8, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2020

^ Kees Kaldenbach: Het Straatje van Johannes Vermeer

↑ Taverne de Mol website

↑ Website of the football club DHC Delft , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

^ Website of the rowing club DSR , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

↑ DSRV Laga website

↑ website DSHC

^ Website of the Delft student rugby club , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

↑ SRC Thor website

^ Website of the Delfland golf course

↑ Sport & Cultuur on the website of the Technical University , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

↑ Westerpop website

↑ Taptoe Delft website

↑ History of the Vlietland Recreational Area , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 gemeentedelft.info ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2011 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. , Kerncijfers 2007: Economische Zaken

↑ Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 gemeentedelft.info ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2011 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. , Kerncijfers 2007: Uitkeringsrechteigden @1@2
↑ Twee eeuwen volkstellingen: de Virtuele Volkstelling 2001, cbs.nl ( Memento of November 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 46 kB)
↑ Matthieu Viegen: Works in het stadsgewest: herkomst en bestemming van forensen, cbs.nl (PDF)
↑ Internet presence of the UNESCO Institute for Water Education ( Memento of the original dated August 4, 2007 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. @1@2
↑ Local section for Delft AD , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 gemeentedelft.info ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2011 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. , Kerncijfers 2007: Cultuur en recreatie @1@2
↑ Help, tram heeft twee jaar contracting! Sint Sebastiaansbrug open, maar line 19 niet. AD , July 15, 2020, accessed September 24, 2020 (Dutch).
↑ Fietsactieplan Delft II - 2005 Crow, accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)
↑ Internet presence of the public library Doc
^ Website of the City Archives , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)
↑ Municipality of Delft Onderwijs ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@2Vorlage:Webachiv/IABot/www.delft.nl

This article was added to the list of excellent articles on December 16, 2008 in this version .

[1] Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)

[2] Vliet is a Dutch expression for brook, sluggish river. A number of Dutch waters are so-called and are often supplemented to distinguish them, such as Delftse Vliet, Maalvliet De Pleyt, Noordvliet, Steenbergse Vliet, Roosendaalse Vliet . The Schie and the Rhine-Schie Canal are also mostly simply called Vliet by the Dutch.

[3] Geological map on fossiel.net

[4] Statistics of the municipality of Delft, January 2007 Kerncijfers 2007: Bodemgebruik en het weer ( Memento of January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 107 kB)

[Bevolking-5] Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 raad.delft.nl ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 131 kB) Kerncijfers 2007: Stand van de bevolking

[6] The following detailed statistics still refer to the 2007 figures.

[7] For 2007-2011, CBS, Statline, See here , September 5, 2011

[8] Shown as a graphic in the National Atlas Volksgesondheit : Religies in Nederland 2000/2003

[9] Website of the St. Ursula Parish Delft (accessed on January 23, 2019; Dutch)

[10] Delft Synagogue

[11] Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 277.

[12] Gemeente Delft, Vakteam Monumentenzorg & Bouwkwaliteit, Gezicht op gebouwed erfgoed Delft ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), monumentennota 2007-2017 and Monumentennota, p. 16 ( Memento from January 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.6 MB)

[Roodenburg24-13] A ^b Marie-Cornélie Roodenburg: De Delftse pottenbakkersnering in de Gouden Eeuw (1575–1675). Uitgeverij Verloren, 1993, ISBN 90-6550-372-2 , p. 24.

[14] Delft as an industrial city in de 17e eeuw. In: De stad Delft. Cultuur en maatschappij van 1572 tot 1667. Delft 1981, pp. 79-90.

[15] Roelof van Gelder, Lodewijk Wagenaar: Spurs van de Compagnie: de VOC in Nederland. De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1988, ISBN 90-6707-169-2 , pp. 41, 83, 112.

[16] Vluchtelingen in Nederland 1914-1918 (refugees in the Niederlangen 1914-1918)

[17] Frans SA Beekmann, Franz Kurowski : Battle for the fortress Holland 1940.

[Jong-18] Loo de Jong: Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog Staatsuitgeverij, 1969–1991, ISBN 90-12-08220-X .

[19] zine of TU Delft TUDelt a ( Memento of 16 December 2008 at the Internet Archive )

[20] Annie Huisman-Van Bergen: Omgekomen Delftse SSR-leden. Derde Bulletin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Uitgeverij Aspect, ISBN 90-5911-006-4 .

[21] Spoortunnel Delft heet Willem van Oranje Tunnel , Metro Nieuws, April 9, 2015 accessed November 28, 2016th

[22] Spoorzone Delft - De feiten op een rij , accessed on January 7, 2019.

[23] Minor Planet Circ. 63640

[24] Verkiezingen gemeenteraad ( Dutch ) Municipality of Delft. Archived from the original on July 9, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2019.

[25] Verkiezingen ( Dutch ) Kiesraad. Accessed in 201902-18.

[26] Marja van Bijsterveldt wordt nieuwe burgemeester Delft. In: Algemeen Dagblad . De Persgroep Nederland , June 2, 2016, accessed May 26, 2018 (Dutch).

[27] College Gemeente Delft, accessed January 7, 2019 (Dutch)

[28] Wapen van Delft ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[29] Termination Agreement ( Memento of September 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Dutch and German; PDF; 106 kB)

[30] By post - Delft ends town twinning FP, June 8, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2020

[31] Kees Kaldenbach: Het Straatje van Johannes Vermeer

[32] Taverne de Mol website

[33] Website of the football club DHC Delft , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

[34] Website of the rowing club DSR , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

[35] DSRV Laga website

[36] website DSHC

[37] Website of the Delft student rugby club , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

[38] SRC Thor website

[39] Website of the Delfland golf course

[40] Sport & Cultuur on the website of the Technical University , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

[41] Westerpop website

[42] Taptoe Delft website

[43] History of the Vlietland Recreational Area , accessed on May 26, 2018 (Dutch)

[Economische_Zaken-44] Statistics of the municipality of Delft, as of January 2007 gemeentedelft.info ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2011 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. , Kerncijfers 2007: Economische Zaken @1@2

flag	coat of arms
province	South Holland
mayor	Marja van Bijsterveldt ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality	Delft
Area - land - water	24.06 km ² 22.85 km ² 1.21 km ²
CBS code	0503
Residents	103,247 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	4291 inhabitants / km ²
Coordinates	52 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 22 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ N , 4 ° 22 ′ E52.011388888889 4.3586111111111
Important traffic route
prefix	015
Postcodes	2601, 2611-2614, 2616, 2622-2629
Website	Homepage of Delft

View of the city center with the Oude Kerk