The Vecht region, with what we know today as De Oudhollandse Waterlinie, played an important role in the defense against the French, the Germans and the English. Because of this, among other things, the capital was never taken. “Sun King Louis XIV was so furious that the French withdrew looting along the Vecht. They left no castle, no house and no village intact. Everything was destroyed,” says the chairman of the theater group, and Johan de Witt in the performance, Anne -Gree Engel.
Maarssen theater group leaves disaster years behind and celebrates 90th anniversary
