Bergen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its North Sea beaches make it a popular destination for tourists.
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| Bergen, North Holland in the 1910s |
Since about 1900, Bergen has been the home of many painters, writers and architects. Some of the work of this “Bergen School” is on exhibit at Museum Kranenburgh. The neighbourhood of Park Meerwijk, constructed in 1915, is made up entirely of villas in Amsterdam School style. There are regular art fairs in Bergen, as well as an annual music festival (the Holland Music Sessions in August) and arts festival (the Kunsttiendaagse in October).
North of the town of Bergen are the Schoorlse Duinen, a nature area with the highest and widest dunes of the Netherlands, which reach about 59m (195 ft) above sea level, and are more than 5 km (3.1 mi) wide in some places. Other points of interest in the municipality include the aquarium in the seaside village of Bergen aan Zee, the Auto Union Museum in Bergen with a collection of classic cars, and the historical museums Het Sterkenhuis (Bergen) and Museum van Egmond (Egmond aan Zee).
These amazing photos from
Archief Alkmaar Commons were taken by photographer A.J. Bonda that show street scenes of Bergen and surroundings in the 1910s.
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| Bergen ruin church, circa 1914 |
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| Cyclists and walkers at café-lodging "Duinzicht" on the Herenweg, 1914 |
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| Dairy factory ''Wilhelmina'', 1914 |
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| Elzenlaan 2-4. View of "House Russenduin". The country house with stable building and driver's house, built in 1916-1917 for August Janssen, 1914 |
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| Karel de Grotelaan seen in a westerly direction, 1914 |
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| Oude Prinsweg with museum ''Het Sterkenhuis'', the post office and the building of the tourist office, circa 1914 |
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| Pension-Lunchroom "Juliana" on the Zeeweg, 1914 |
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| Raadhuisstraat with the "Doctor Dekkerhuis", nowadays the Village House, 1914 |
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| Ruin church, circa 1914 |
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| The "big tree" or "old lime tree" with Hotel Dorpszicht, Hoflaan, circa 1914 |
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| The building of pension-lunchroom "Juliana" on the Zeeweg, after the renovation into "Hotel Stroomer", 1914 |
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| The Deer Camp in a westerly direction, with "Hotel Deer Camp" in the offing, 1914 |
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| The Dorpsstraat, 1914 |
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| The Dorpsstraat, seen in a westerly direction from the Kleine Dorpsstraat, 1914 |
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| The Dorpsstraat. ''Pension Theresia'' on the right, 1914 |
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| The narrow path with guest house "Greta" and the "Adam and Eve tree", circa 1914 |
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| The Schermersloot with the barge of skipper Kleverlaan, 1914 |
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| The shop of photographer Bonda, Oude Prinsweg 11, circa 1914 |
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| The station yard of Bergen aan Zee, with a steam tram ready for departure, seen to the west. Also visible are "Lunchrome Juliana", hotel "Prins Maurits" and hotel "Nassau Bergen", 1914 |
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| Two steam trams at Bergen station, seen from the platform to the east. The locomotive is reversing towards the sea, 1914 |
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| Two steam trams at Bergen station, seen from the station square to the south-east. The locomotive is reversing towards the sea, 1914 |
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| View of the Breelaan with the entrance to the Stationsstraat on the right, 1914 |
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| A group of soldiers with stretched wagons on the Oude Prinsweg, 1916 |
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| Bench in the woods, with a German soldier flanked by two women. The woman on the right has a dog on her lap, 1916 |
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| Four NCOs standing in front of a barracks. A fifth NCO sits in a window of the barracks (left). The guest house Johanna on the Vinkenbaan is visible on the right, 1916 |
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| Group photo, probably in front of the farm "Rampen" on the Meerweg, 1916 |
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| Guesthouse "Holland" on the Studler van Surcklaan, 1916 |
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| The internment camp on the Breelaan, seen to the northwest, 1916 |
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| Two women in a place behind a house. One of them is doing the laundry in a zinc tub, the other is lying in a deck chair, 1916 |
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| Woman in a chair with a man in the uniform of the German internees from the internment camp on the Breelaan, 1916 |
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