Tag: Rossem
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about Utrecht Politics and Pim Fortuyn
The party’s popularity also declined sharply locally. In the 2006 elections, the party plummeted from 14 to 3 seats. “The cake was gone,” Broos Schnetz explains, “we have had our…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the ‘bankrupt’ city
Utrecht – Don’t panic! The city of Utrecht has never really been bankrupt. Not that we weren’t in a bad position, but cities in the Netherlands simply cannot go bankrupt.…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about childcare and emancipation
The only question that arises is how emancipated the household used to be for Maarten and his wife… “I always like to tell you that, because I became emancipated through…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the rise of prosperity and luxury products
Amerongen – Born in 1943, Maarten grew up in lean times. Thinking back to that time, he calculates that life looked quite poor until at least the late 1950s: “wages…
Maarten 80 years old! Van Rossem talks about the housing shortage
To tackle the housing shortage, rapid and extensive construction had to be carried out from the end of the 1950s onwards. One of the major expansion neighborhoods in our region…
Van Rossem Talks about commemorating: ‘War never ends’
“When you walk past the graves, it is especially striking that those boys were often not older than twenty,” Maarten van Rossem muses as he walks past the graves on…
Van Rossem Tells: looking for Spanish cannonballs
The siege of Vredenburg During the Eighty Years’ War, the Siege of Vredenburg was a siege of Vredenburg Castle from December 21, 1576, by citizens of Utrecht. The people of…
Van Rossem tells: How a soap factory founded the entire village of Den Dolder
With the move of the factory, soap producer Pleines built an entire village. Bert van Eerten of the Den Dolder Historical Association explains how Pleines became the founder of Den…
Maarten van Rossem is disturbed by a lack of history knowledge: ‘We are careless with our past’
In front of the entrance to the Wilhelmina Park, where Van Rossem regularly takes a walk, he answers a few questions about the history of the Utrecht region. He’s got…
Maarten van Rossem and Hedy d’Ancona about feminism in Utrecht: ‘We will continue the struggle’
“But it’s still not evenly distributed,” says Hedy. “Almost all women – especially mothers – work part-time, almost all men work full-time. And then we still have a pay gap.…