Achterhoek Ancestors

Gerrit Willem Schreurs

Male 1839 -


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   Date  Event(s)
1844 
  • 1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
1845 
  • 1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
1847 
  • 1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
1856 
  • 1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
1880 
  • 1880: The railroad from Winterswijk to Bocholt in Germany is opened.
  • 1880: Piet Mondriaan, then 8 years old, moves to Winterswijk and grows up there. He would later become a famous painter.
1884 
  • 1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
1885 
  • 1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
1890 
  • 1890: An ancient cannon has been found in Bredevoort. When this is fired during a celebration, it explodes killing two children.
  • 1890: An horse-drawn omnibus starts a regular service between Dinxperlo and Terborg. Each trip could take 10 people and 250 kg of cargo.
1891 
  • 1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.
10 1896 
  • 1896: A dairy processor is opened in Dinxperlo.
11 1902 
  • 1902: A cooperative bank is established in Dinxperlo.
12 1903 
  • 1903: About 2/3 of the workers are involved in a railroad strike in Winterswijk to improve working conditions and wages.
13 1908 
  • 1908: The hamlet of De Heurne near Dinxperlo gets their own church.
14 1911 
  • 1911: The smallest church in the Netherlands, de Rietstap, is built in Dinxperlo. The owner had inherited money on the provision he would build a church.
15 1914 
  • 1914: As a result of the 'great war', traffic ceases to flow between the Achterhoek and Germany.
  • 1914: For the first time, an aircraft is spotted in the sky above Dinxperlo.
16 1922 
  • 1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
17 1927 
  • 1927: Rev. Stegeman from Aalten holds a speech in Amsterdam, which is transmitted by radio. In Aalten, tickets are sold to hear the show for 15 cents.
18 1932 
  • 1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
19 1933 
  • 1933: Winterswijk gets their own department of the Nationalist Socialist party, the NSB. This party later becomes the major ally of the nazi party.
20 1934 
  • 1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
21 1936 
  • 1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
22 1940 
  • 1940: Start of the German occupation.
23 1943 
  • 1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
24 1944 
  • 1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
25 1945 
  • 1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
26 1949 
  • 1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.