Tsar Peter House
The Tsar Peter House in Zaandam is one of the oldest preserved buildings in the Netherlands .
The house in the Russian quarter of Zaandam was built in 1632 as a workers' house from old ship wood. The Russian Tsar Peter the Great lived in this house while he learned the trade of a ship's carpenter here in 1697.
The house is part of the Zaans Museum and houses a small historical exhibition.
history
There are quite a few prominent people associated with the memorial. The bust of Anna Pavlovna illustrates the family relationships between the Russian imperial Romanov family and the Dutch royal family. The Tsar Peter House was owned by the family for a long time. King Wilhelm I (Orange) acquired the house in 1818 as a gift for his Russian daughter-in-law, Anna Pavlovna, the sister of Tsar Alexander I (Russia) and descendant of Peter the Great.
It is one of the oldest wooden houses in the country and would have long since disappeared without the connections to the royal house and the tsar family. The landlord Bulsing saved the house from demolition towards the end of the 18th century.
In 1823 the house was given a stone facade with open arches for the first time, financed by Queen Anna Pavlovna. After her death, her son Prince Heinrich had a facade built around the wooden house to protect it against harmful weather influences. In 1890, Tsar Alexander III. (Russia) support the house and place it on a stone foundation.
The last Russian tsar, Nicholas II , commissioned the famous architects father and son Salm from Amsterdam in 1895 to design a new stone facade that was to be based on the architecture of the Russian Orthodox churches. The stone Russian imperial crowns on the facade and next to the fences refer to the manorial past. The extraordinary design by Salm was listed as a historical monument in 2001, so that two monuments have stood in the same place since then.
In 1886, Wilhelm III. (Orange) the house and the art collection returned to Tsar Alexander III. back, whose descendants declared their waiver in 1948. Nevertheless, the house is still registered to "the Dutch state and the heirs of Emperor Nicholas II". The famous collection of manuscripts in the Tsar Peter House includes a number of names from the two noble families, including King Willem-Alexander .
building
The wooden workers' house in Zaandam was renovated in 2013. The foundation as well as the inside and outside, the stone facade, the roof and the outside wall in the garden have been completely redesigned.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 14 " N , 4 ° 49 ′ 25" E