Different Times. Corn Market and Der Aa-Church, Groningen, The Netherlands
It's not often that the sky over Groningen is cloudlessly blue and bright. In this light, here's the tympanum of the Corn Market - Korenbeurs - built on the foundations of earlier buildings between 1862-1865. It's graced by a statue in zinc of Mercury, the God of Merchants and Thieves (1873), with his winged hat and caduceus while the World Globe is at his feet. The artist is probably Philip Simon Enthoven (1823-?) of the foundry firm of L(ion) J. Enthoven of The Hague, later renamed N.V. Pletterij under the pressure of anti-semitism. The building itself is a creation of Johannes Godfried van Beusekom (1825-1881), well-known town architect of Groningen in the nineteenth century. Today the building serves as a supermarket.
The tower is of the Der Aa-Church devoted to Our Lady and St Nicholas in the Middle Ages but now used for public functions in an age of secularisation. From the thirteenth century the church was rebuilt and redesigned many times. In fact, this is the third tower (1718) after predecessors fell down. Today it told the time correctly...
Different Times. Corn Market and Der Aa-Church, Groningen, The Netherlands
It's not often that the sky over Groningen is cloudlessly blue and bright. In this light, here's the tympanum of the Corn Market - Korenbeurs - built on the foundations of earlier buildings between 1862-1865. It's graced by a statue in zinc of Mercury, the God of Merchants and Thieves (1873), with his winged hat and caduceus while the World Globe is at his feet. The artist is probably Philip Simon Enthoven (1823-?) of the foundry firm of L(ion) J. Enthoven of The Hague, later renamed N.V. Pletterij under the pressure of anti-semitism. The building itself is a creation of Johannes Godfried van Beusekom (1825-1881), well-known town architect of Groningen in the nineteenth century. Today the building serves as a supermarket.
The tower is of the Der Aa-Church devoted to Our Lady and St Nicholas in the Middle Ages but now used for public functions in an age of secularisation. From the thirteenth century the church was rebuilt and redesigned many times. In fact, this is the third tower (1718) after predecessors fell down. Today it told the time correctly...