stadhuis

Within the stadhuis is another of the beautiful justice halls which

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

THE golden cock on the top of the stadhuis gleamed; his beak was open like a pair of scissors, and a narrow piece of blue sky was wedged in it.

The Paper Windmill 1996

"Coquerico!" crowed the golden cock on the top of the stadhuis.

The Paper Windmill 1996

Nieuwe Kerk's many bells are rippling a silver tune over the old roofs and gables; who has drunk his beer full opposite the stadhuis at Leyden, and seen Haarlem's huge church across magnificent miles of gaudy tulips, and watched from a brown-sailed boat on the Zuider

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

For one possession alone, among many, the stadhuis must be visited -- its halls of justice, veritable paradises of old oak, with a very wonderful fireplace.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Certainly no little town is so good to approach -- with the friendliness of its red roofs before one all the way, the unearthly hugeness of its church and the magic of its stadhuis tower against the blue.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Middelburg, and whose truculent lineaments have so often frowned at us from the walls of picture gallery and stadhuis throughout the country -- almost without exception from the hand of Ferdinand Bol, or a copyist.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

The stadhuis has also treasures of tapestry and Spanish leather, and a museum containing a very fine collection of antiquities, including one of the famous wooden petticoats of

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

In addition to the stadhuis museum, which is dedicated to the history of Middelburg and Zeeland, the town has also a municipal museum, too largely given over to shells and stuffed birds, but containing also such human relics as the wheel on which Admiral de Ruyter as a boy helped his father to make rope, and also the first microscope and the first telescope, both the work of Zacharias Jansen, a Zeeland mathematician.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

Among the beautiful buildings which our cannon balls destroyed was the ancient stadhuis.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903