Area developer AM will realise an apartment complex on the site of the Power City Church on the Elisabethhof The apartment complex will contain about 220 social there will be space for about 800 m² of (commercial) facilities Some of the facilities will have a care function The current church building will be demolished on a circular basis Gemeente Leiderdorp: Anne-Mieke Lampe-Boerendonk The large courtyard garden of the new Elisabethhof apartment complex in Leiderdorp not only offers relaxation and socialising but also plays an important role in water storage cooling the environment and promoting biodiversity Green roofs and faҫades are being considered to further integrate nature into the urban environment the project encourages healthy behaviour by emphasising cycling instead of car use and by creating communal spaces that promote social contact These facilities contribute to an active and healthy lifestyle while residents live in a green and climate-resilient environment Read more about this project (in Dutch) BAM with its JV partners Ferrovial and SK ecoplant (known as Riverlinx) have completed the Silvertown Tunnel a landmark infrastructure project connecting Silvertown in Newham with the Greenwich Peninsula BAM has started work to transform accessibility at Hither Green station in London - making travel easier quicker and more inclusive for thousands of people every day TenneT has awarded BAM Infra Nederland the civil works contract for the 380 kV high-voltage connection between Moerdijk and Tilburg covering the eastern section of the new connection between Rilland and Tilburg More > March 18, 2025 I know The term miniature golf is in comparison to the sprawling arguably irresponsible surface area taken up by a full-size golf course Even a generous outdoor park is only maybe the size of a single hole on a traditional golf course have sprung into maximalist interpretations of a sensible putting distance Here are five mini-golf courses that are anything but… Mt. Atlanticus Minotaur Goff How does knocking around a little sphere in UV lighting track down the location of missing pop star Diva Laguna If my extremely reasonable and necessary expense reports ever get approved Instagram/@kissworldlv She can also have very weird feelings about you firing a golf ball up a glow-in-the-dark version of Gene Simmons’ famously long tongue Lexington Ice Center Miniature Golf They even blast Christian rock while you work your way through their pious texts of physics it sounds like a lovely weekend activity for someone way less Jewish than me It’s also one of the world’s best and worst places to be on mushrooms! This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. 2019 The A4 near Leiderdorp has been named as the most dangerous kilometre of motorway in the Netherlands after the accident rate shot up by 60% in 2018 Stichting Incident Management Nederland (SIMN), the body which liaises between insurers and road operators, said it dealt with 52 incidents last year between the 33th and 34th kilometre markers on the southbound carriageway heading towards The Hague. The accident spot is at the point immediately after vehicles emerge from a tunnel and reach the Zouterwoute-Rijndijk junction, where the slip road joins the motorway on the left-hand side. The road also narrows from from three lanes to two. ‘The combination of traffic slowing down, sudden daylight and the need to steam in from the left-hand lane considerably increases the chance of an accident,’ said SIMN. The most dangerous five-kilometre stretch is the A16 around the Van Brienenoordbrug, near Rotterdam, where both carriageways were the scene of more than 100 accidents in the course of last year. We could not provide the Dutch News service, and keep it free of charge, without the generous support of our readers. Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter, and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day. Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days! We could not provide this service without you. If you have not yet made a contribution, you can do so here. Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey. The province of Zuid-Holland has given eight municipalities, including The Hague and Leiden, a warning that if they do not house enough refugees with a temporary residence permit, then the province will do it for them and charge them for it. In addition to The Hague and Leiden, municipalities like Leiderdorp, Oegstgeest, Pijnacker-Nootdorp, Teylingen, Voorschoten, and Zoeterwoude were sent a letter with this message. These eight municipalities are lagging when it comes to housing refugees with temporary residence permits. The government decides every six months how many residency permit holders need to be given shelter. They decide this number based on the number of residents in a municipality. Provinces are allowed to intervene when municipalities miss their target from the government for the fourth time in a row. Zuid-Holland also gave Barendrecht and Goeree-Overflakkee a last warning like this in the last few years. This led to both municipalities reaching their target. A spokesperson for the province said that Zuid-Holland has never had to find housing for the permit holders on the municipality costs. The Hague was around 400 homes behind when it came to their target for housing for residency permit holders on January 1. Leiden still had over 50 people that they had to find accommodation for. Of the 50 municipalities in Zuid-Holland, only four reached their target. Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, Midden-Delfland, and Rotterdam. The municipalities in Zuid-Holland had to find housing for 5,600 residency permit holders, but they have only been able to do so for almost 3,400 people. The other residency holders are waiting in asylum seeker centers for a home. Some municipalities give residency permit holders priority when allocating social housing. The Cabinet is trying to ban this. Residency holders are also regularly housed in flexible housing or temporary living spaces in vacant buildings. © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. Amsterdam’s university medical centre reported a 25% increase over two years in the number of women freezing their eggs while their number doubled at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam Fertility clinic MC Kinderwens retrieved the eggs of some 440 women last year compared to 150 in 2021 some 34,000 eggs from 2,200 women are held by clinics The popularity of the procedure is causing longer waiting lists In Leiderdorp the average waiting time is 15 months and Amsterdam UMC recently opened a second location to shrink waiting times from two years to four months clinics have had to turn new patients away The paper counted 84,000 Instagram posts alone on the subject Some companies, including Google, McKinsey and LinkedIn, also offer women to pay to freeze their eggs as part of their contract According to gynecologist Mariëtte Goddijn egg-freezing is not a whim from career women with too much money but the lack of a partner to share a child with “Most women do not come here because they want to but because they are afraid that at some point I will have to tell them they are too late,” Joop Laven of Erasmus MC told the paper “Their biological clock is not chiming with how their lives are going stop the clock,” Sabra Dahhan of UMC Utrecht said According to reproductive sociologist Lucy van de Wiel young people’s lives have become less “secure” they rent because they can’t afford to buy And then they have a temporary partner who may say after a year or two he’s found someone nicer he’d rather be with,” she said Statistics agency confirms the shift in life milestones 60% of people in their 20s lived with a partner People are more likely to have a permanent job than they used to be Some 60% of  28-year-olds owned a house in 2008 now buyers in that age group have fallen below 50% the average age topped 30 for the first time Amsterdam-based corporate lawyer Adinda Karperien (34) turned to a fertility clinic to freeze her eggs when her partner of eight years suddenly announced he was leaving her I knew that it could take years to build up another relationship and take the step of having children Meanwhile my chances of conceiving would go down,” she told the paper We could not provide the Dutch News service without the generous support of our readers Your donations allow us to report on issues you tell us matter and provide you with a summary of the most important Dutch news each day Many thanks to everyone who has donated to DutchNews.nl in recent days We could not provide this service without you Please help us making DutchNews.nl a better read by taking part in a short survey On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the maior of Leiderdorp on a number of highlights in his career so far such as his results on differences of 'higher powers' and his insight that a variant of the Chinese Remainder Theorem could lead to a breakthrough in the field of Discrete Tomography In his speech the maior mentioned Tijdeman's great international reputation as well as the many worldwide collaborations he has set up.  The Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP) is very important not only for the city of Leiden but also for the Leiden region and the Netherlands as a whole This is the finding of an investigation conducted by the Leiden-Leiderdorp Audit Committee The large-scale development of the LBSP in recent years has resulted in above-average growth in jobs in Leiden despite the disappearance of some elements of traditional industry The Audit Committee investigated what the LBSP generates for the city of Leiden and the surrounding area in order to answer the questions raised by political parties within Leiden City Council about the Park’s costs and revenues and Leiden City Council bears some of these costs the Council is always faced with the question of how the LBSP serves the interests of Leiden’s citizens and whether this justifies the costs that it incurs The investigation gives a positive answer to this question: it found that the LBSP is beneficial for many residents of Leiden The Audit Committee’s investigation revealed that the positive societal and economic effects of the LBSP outweigh any adverse effects associated with it It concluded that the LBSP is very important in providing work for people with both theoretical and practical training in Leiden and the Leiden region and that job numbers are growing much faster on the LBSP than elsewhere in the city The LBSP currently provides employment for more than 20,000 people the investigation found that the presence of the LBSP generates around 3,000 indirect jobs in other parts of Leiden It also revealed that the LBSP yields around 8.3 million euros for the City Council (primarily in property tax revenues) while the costs that the Council incurs for its development and management are around 3.8 million euros per year The Council can use the surplus income from the LBSP to invest in the city the sometimes groundbreaking research conducted on the LBSP helps to focus positive media attention on Leiden This is particularly evident in these times of coronavirus largely thanks to the presence of Janssen Vaccines which is working on a Covid-19 vaccine.  More info on the LBSP website (in Dutch) two ‘foreign craftsmen’ received 10 stuyvers from the city of Leiden These strangers appear among 23 entries of individuals households or small groups of people who received some passanten relief from the city that month according to the passanten registries The Leiden city archives contain an early nineteenth-century register with daily expenses to passanten This source provides insights into the relations between the city and the Protestant deaconry and into the attitudes of communities to mobility and unsettledness The registers in the archives of the city of Leiden extend from 1803-1834 and document the income and spending of the passantmeester during these years the relief provided by the ‘master for those passing through’ references to the concept of passanten can be found from the medieval period onwards denoting people who passed through the city without the intent of staying but instead it designated the difference between residents and people passing through like pilgrims or merchants or people travelling for family visits and only stayed briefly in the community while in transit for example to take another barge or coach But although the individuals only stayed briefly as a whole they can be considered as a separate social group in cities for which distinct facilities and policies existed scholarship on mobility and migration has only touched on the phenomenon in passing The concept is rooted in Christian and Jewish notions of hospitality and charity People were supposed to host fellow believers who were traveling overnight and provide them with a meal Remnants of formalized provision can be found in several cities in the Low Countries like the Sint Juliaans Passantenhuis in Mechelen or Hospitaal Sint Joos in Bruges Other common names for these houses were passantengodshuis or baaierd which in this case were distinct establishments within larger gasthuizen (hospitals) to host travellers amongst others in the case of the Sint-Elisabethsgasthuis The passanten institutions generally merged with other hospitals and relief institutions and by the eighteenth century they often fell out of use a sort of relief which often took the form of travel vouchers These historical facilities for passanten were the results of considerations of charity on the one hand and social control on the other Although passantenhuizen offered a free night’s stay they also allowed urban authorities to host all travellers in one place for monitoring reasons And while travel vouchers allowed migrants to continue their travels they also helped to ensure that visitors would not remain in the city or become destitute within the city boundaries but instead would carry on to their next destination Image 1: Excerpt of expenses for the year 1823 in the register of the passantmeester in the city archives of Leiden Scans made available by Erfgoed Leiden.  but the information differed between entries The largest part of the archival source consists of lists with the total amounts of money spent per month we find more elaborate ‘states of expenses’ These include daily entries with the names or descriptions of people to whom relief was provided by the passantmeester Some of the entries stand out because they include a general description rather than a name such as ‘passported soldiers’ or ‘travelling craftsmen’ At times the reason for provision was mentioned The passantmeester noted having spent 8 stuyvers on 16 January 1823 he gave another 8 stuyvers ‘[t]o the same Jan Sreuder with his wife for a night’s stay’ plus 2 guilders and 4 stuyvers for ‘half board [halfvracht] on the Postal roads to Haarlem’ the register contains some receipts which the passantmeester had reimbursed They provide insights into how this relief was distributed The receipts have a higher level of detail but only a few of them survive in the archive which implies that it was a standardised procedure have presented themselves to us / Director of Police …. / This functioning as proof that the Passant master / has given him f Image 2: Receipt from the passanten registries Detail of scan made available by Erfgoed Leiden.  The Leiden registers are remarkable because they provide evidence of continuity in the nineteenth century And while historians like Jan de Vries or Joke Spaans already documented the existence of passantengeld in the form of travel vouchers for barges transport here we find evidence of varying forms of relief Exploratory research in other cities in the Low Countries showed that similar registries were kept in the city of Mechelen in Belgium in the early nineteenth century they resemble passport and visa registers of the same period documenting – in more detail than at Leiden – information like places of origin destinations and itineraries of people arriving in or passing through Mechelen While featuring an extra column on relief provided to travellers the amount was filled in only sporadically and without further details on the kind of help offered Although more research is needed to contextualise the source genre properly it seems clear that relief was not just targeted at the local parish community but also at travellers and migrants relief for passanten had a more differentiated public urban function It involved religious parish officials as well as civic authorities The passantmeester was a civil servant acting on behalf of the Huiszittenhuis the urban relief institution of the Dutch Reformed church (more specifically its deaconry) which was governed by parishioners dealing with the social aspects of the parish (diakenen) and municipal regents Relief provided to passanten was financed by the city rather than parochial funds The implementation and daily operations however were in the hands of the Reformed deaconry Image 3: ‘Huiszittenhuis van de Hervormde Diaconie’ The Huiszittenhuis – freely translated as ‘house of outdoor relief’ – was the poor relief institution of the Reformed deaconry The wider functions of the passanten registers also emerge from the religious profile of the recipients The passantmeester did not just cater to the Protestant community We might assume that the aforementioned Sreuder and his wife were members of the Church of England or perhaps nonconformists rather than members of the Dutch Reformed church There is also mention of a Jewish traveller in the sources Relief in the early modern Dutch Republic and the nineteenth-century Kingdom of the Netherlands more generally was however divided between religious communities was generally responsible for public relief and people of other religions had to turn to their own congregation Yet there were significant local differences has demonstrated that the city of Den Bosch made public relief available to people from all denominations relief was also organised along domicilie van onderstand known in a British context as the laws of settlement passanten and immigrants were in essence equated in terms of policies They formed a burden and a danger and therefore had to be monitored and regulated.’ (1997 87) This reflected fears of political unrest and uncontrollable numbers of beggars as well as a desire to preserve the urban order Pot thus understood these policies in terms of social control But did passanten policies only target poor travellers Based on categorisations of wealth according to profession passported soldiers or travelling craftsmen are different categories from – for example – a single mother and her children To what extent was the concept of passanten Should we perhaps view it as referring to more mixed groups of pilgrims the receipts included in the archival source also indicate reimbursements to Leiden natives resident in nearby Leiderdorp Further research into the archives of the Huiszittenhuis and the Leiden city council is needed to establish whether the passantmeester had a double function of caring for passanten in Leiden and those from Leiden elsewhere or whether this double function instead related to caring for passing travellers (of various status) and the local poor David Hitchcock found similar dynamics in the aid systems for travellers in early modern Warwickshire local constables oversaw distributing relief to ‘passengers’ and ‘poor passengers’ in addition to implementing the vagrancy laws Hitchcock convincingly showed how the typologies of travellers in these different categories those to be helped and those to be punished socio-economic elements but also depended on the constables themselves Image 4: ‘Gezicht op de Witte Poort te Leiden’ [View on the White Gate in Leiden] etching and engraving attributed to Andries van Buysen (Sr.) The relationship between relief and migration regulation is a contested topic nevertheless appears to have functioned as an encouragement to move on It prevented migrants from settling in the community or becoming dependent on relief there the passanten relief is comparable to restrictive migration policies in other cities argued that the city of Amsterdam eased regulations for migrants to enter the city in the nineteenth century but limited their access to poor relief Anne Winter on the other hand found that nineteenth-century Antwerp prevented poor migrants from entering the city by introducing strict requirements on identity documents facilities and policies regarding passanten – not least on the precise role of the parishes – is needed to provide further insights into the entanglement of migration policies and poor relief in this case The functions of passanten relief so far appear to span forms of charity or solidarity for co-believers as well as forms of social control or monitoring of migrants The deconstruction of categories and typologies of migrants and travellers based on such sources will help further our understanding of this supposed dichotomy But the passanten registries discussed offer much more – not least a perspective on cities and villages as places that people passed through They form a rich source for research into transient migration the continuous stream of people arriving and leaving local communities in the period around 1800 ‘Register van inkomsten en uitgaven van de passantmeester kasboek en enige bijlagen betreffende bijstand voor passanten and Charitable Institutions in Colonial Bombay’ Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos (Oxford 2020) 171-193 David ‘A typology of travellers: migration 1670–1730’, Rural History 23:1 (2012) 21-39 Migration and poor relief in the Netherlands Settlement and Belonging in Europe: 1500 to 1930s (New York 2013) 173-203 Gens de passage en Méditerranée de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne : Procédure de contrôle et d'identification (Paris 2007) Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Omstreken 79 (1997) 82-95 ‘Goede buren en verre vrienden: De ontwikkeling van onderstand bij armoede in Den Bosch sedert de Middeleeuwen’ Op lange termijn: Verkla­ringen van trends in de geschiedenis van samenlevingen (Hilversum 1994) 147-69 Onderzoek in uitvoering naar passanten en infrastructuren voor transitmigranten in de Lage Landen Armenzorg in Friesland 1500-1800: publieke zorg en particuliere liefdadigheid in zes Friese steden Leeuwarden Passenger Transportation in the Dutch Economy Migranten en de toegang tot armenzorg in Antwerpen Stedelijke actoren en structuren in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden Liber alumnorum Catharina Lis en Hugo Soly (Brussels 2011) 135-156 ‘Settlement law and rural-urban relief transfers in nineteenth-century Belgium: A case study on migrants’ access to relief in Antwerp’ We use cookies to give you the best online experience Please let us know if you agree to functional You can update your cookie preferences at any time Homosexual couples who want to have a child through a surrogate mother can do so at Dutch clinics from next year according to a survey by television program De Monitor Until now that has been impossible in the Netherlands due to strict regulations At least two Dutch clinics will start offering surrogacy to gay couples next year - MC Kinderwens in Leiderdorp and Nij Geertgen clinic in Elsendorp In Leiderdorp the surrogate mother must also donate the egg In Elsendorp the surrogate and egg donor may be different people "I think it's too crazy for words that gay couples but also women with oncological complaints for example have to go abroad to fulfill their desire to have children" Nij Geertgen director Marc Scheijven said to De Monitor "While we have all medical and technical experience in house." These two clinics can start offering this service since the strict criteria for surrogacy were broadened when the Embryo Act was changed this past summer Two more clinics are also considering offering surrogacy for gay couples the Isala Fertility Center in Zwolle and Amsterdam UMC's VUmc location Leiden is a picturesque university city that in many ways is the intellectual epicenter of the region offering an ideal setting for expats to live in Leiden is home to the oldest university in the country, as well as many museums and many bars, cafés, and restaurants. On top of that the city can boast great public transportation services. Below, Tweel Wonen gives a tour of the town From Leiden Central station, which is a 10-minute walk from the city center, trains take you to Amsterdam in just over half an hour and both Schiphol Airport and The Hague in 15 minutes Simplify finding a home abroad with HousingAnywhere Their easy-to-use platform lets landlords and tenants connect offering a popular service for anyone moving internationally find your new home when relocating abroad quickly and easily with HousingAnywhere Leiden University offers a multitude of programs and courses in English as well as Dutch courses for foreigners which have a reputation for their efficacy university buildings and sorority and fraternity houses are scattered all over the city center Besides the main university, the city also houses a campus of Webster University This school attracts mainly foreign students and gives Leiden an international flair One of the city’s smallest museums is the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum It basically consists of one room with some artifacts but the lack of visual stimuli is compensated by the wonderful stories museum owner Jeremy Bangs tells about the Pilgrims who lived in the city before setting sail to the Americas on the Mayflower in 1609 Leiden is also great for shopping The city’s main shopping streets are the Breestraat and Haarlemmerstraat the really interesting shops are off the main roads in the narrow pedestrian areas of the Pieterskwartier The city is home to a large number of antique stores the city’s shopping area becomes a massive outdoor market that offers a variety of fresh goods By far the most attractive (and expensive) area to live in is the historic city center  Highly desired are large old homes on the Rapenburg and in the Professorenwijk and Burgemeesterswijk house prices reflect the popularity of these areas Most houses in the latter areas were built between the 1920s and 1950s and have the corresponding characteristic details A little further afield are the newer neighborhoods of De Merenwijk and Stevenshof These areas are fully equipped with schools These neighborhoods are newer: houses in Merenwijk were built in the 1970s These are true Dutch suburbs with larger gardens Also popular with families and with a better space-to-price ratio If you’re looking for a place to live, you could try looking in Facebook groups or on websites such as Funda (renting and buying) or Pararius (rentals) there are plenty of sites that cater especially to internationals Adam has lived in Belgium and Hong Kong and is currently residing in the Netherlands His interests range a wide spectrum of topics from digital nomads and modern conflict to sports and local craft beer Although Amsterdam is typically the number one hub for expats there are plenty of other cities in the Netherlands worth your while We explain the complex secondary school system in the Netherlands including the three public streams and various international options You can claim different types of child benefits in the Netherlands Matthijs De Ligt has signed a five-year deal with Juventus (PA) Juventus have announced the signing of highly-rated Dutch centre-back Matthijs De Ligt from Ajax who had previously been linked with Manchester United and Barcelona has signed a five-year contract with the Serie A champions Juve have paid an initial fee of 75 million euros (£67.8million) for a player who helped Ajax reach last season's Champions League semi-finals and win the Eredivisie title while reaching the Nations League final with Holland At the weekend Leiderdorp-born De Ligt was left out of Ajax's squad for their summer tour to Austria pending a transfer and he arrived in Turin on Wednesday to undergo a medical at Juve's headquarters We need your consent to load this Social Media content We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity Earlier in the summer the Holland international was expected to join Barcelona who have signed his former Ajax team-mate Frenkie De Jong while Premier League club United and Paris St Germain had reportedly been interested in securing his services Adrien Rabiot and Merih Demiral as a new signing at Juve with recently-appointed head coach Maurizio Sarri also bringing veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon back to Turin ahead of a bid for a ninth consecutive league title for the Bianconeri Carice van Houten is a Dutch actress and singer who has a net worth of $5 million Carice Anouk van Houten was born in Leiderdorp She studied at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam Her first appearance came in the TV series Het Labyrint in 1997 Carice's first leading role was in the 1999 TV movie Suzy Q as Suzy One of her best known roles was in the 2006 movie Black Book which proved to be the most successful Dutch movie For that role she won a Golden Calf for Best Actress and a Rembrandt Award for Best Actress as well as being nominated for five other awards She starred in Valkyrie in 2008 for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Carice also starred in Repo Men in 2010 and Lea the same year for which she again won a Golden Calf and Rembrandt Award for Best Actress She won those two awards plus a Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film Award for 2011's Black Butterflies She again won a Rembrandt Award for Best Actress for 2012's Family Way Since 2012 Carice has starred as Melisandre in the HBO series Game of Thrones She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for the show She previously dated Black Book co-star Sebastian Koch © 2025 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved