Goor

Goor (pronounced [ɣoːr]) is a city about 20 km west of Enschede in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It received city rights in 1263.

This article is about the Dutch village. For the forest on Rügen island, see Goor (Rügen).
Goor
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Sculpture: the history of Goor
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Goor
Location in province of Overijssel in the Netherlands
Goor
Goor (Netherlands)
Coordinates: 52°13′56″N 6°35′12″E
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceOverijssel
MunicipalityHof van Twente
Area
[1]
 • Total19.49 km2 (7.53 sq mi)
Elevation
[2]
12 m (39 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Total12,155
 • Density620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
7471[1]
Dialing code0547

Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became a part of Hof van Twente.[3] Goor was the site of a statue of the republican leader Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, but the statue was destroyed by royalists Orangists after the republican movement was crushed in 1787.

Jewish Community

While records of individual Jews in Goor date back to the 14th Century, the first permanent records of a Jewish community date to the 1600s when residence permits were issued to Jews.[4] The Jewish population expanded rapidly in the second half of the 18th Century. In 1748, Goor had 13 Jewish residents; that number increased to 238 Jews by 1809. [4]

The Joodse begraafplaats Jewish Cemetery of Goor on the Borghoek dates to 1720. [5]

In 1821, the Jews of Goor joined together with Jews living in the neighboring towns of Diepenheim and Markelo to build the ‘‘Ringsynagoge’’ (Regional Synagogue).

The Jewish community thrived throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Jews markedly contributed not only to Goor’s economic development, but that of the entire Twente region. The Jewish Lavino brothers set up a Weaving School in Goor. [4] The Jew Godfried Salomonson (1838-1911) established the ‘‘Koninklijke Stoomweverij te Nijverdal’’ (the Royal Nijverdal Steam Bleaching Works). Nijverdal means “Industrious Valley” in Dutch, and was only founded in 1836 with the express purpose of serving as the center of the Dutch Industrial Revolution.[6] In 1902, a new synagogue replaced the old ‘Ringsynagoge’ with a new synagogue on Schoolstraat.

As anti-Semitism gripped Nazi Germany in the late 1920s, Goor (like the rest of the Netherlands) saw an influx of Jewish refugees.

The Nazis occupied the Netherlands in 1940. After the war, nearly the entire Jewish community had been openly murdered or sent to concentration camps where they were killed.

On March 24, 1945, Allied bombers hit and damaged the Goor Synagogue which had survived the Nazi occupation as a storehouse.

In 1970, the Dutch government erected a national monument in the Joodse gemeenschap memorializing the Jews whom the Nazis murdered.

Transportation

Railway Station: Goor

Notables

References
  1. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2022. Two entries
  2. "Postcodetool for 7471AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  3. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
  4. “Jewish Communities:Goor,Joods Cultureel Kwartier”, https://jck.nl/en/page/goor
  5. Goorsnieuws.nl d.d. 24 september 2009 't is een vreemdeling zeker,.....
  6. “Godftied Salomomson,” ‘Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland:1880-2000’, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/salomonson
  • Goor, church: Hofkerk
  • Goor, Hofkerk in the street
  • Goor, windmill: Braakmolen


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