Haarlem Discovery Tour: Coster, Enschedé and the Birth of Books
180 min
2.6 km
13 stops
About this tour
Did Haarlem really invent printing? The honest 12-stop answer: probably not, but what Haarlem did give the world is bigger than any legend. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
13 guided stops on this route
Costerstandbeeld
On the Grote Markt stands Laurens Janszoon Coster, made by sculptor Louis Royer and unveiled in 1856. He holds a book and a letter A, the letter he is said to…
Grote Markt 25
Grote Markt 25 has long been called Coster's birthplace, but the building dates from the seventeenth century. The earliest books attributed to Coster can only…
Grote of Sint-Bavokerk
The Grote or St Bavo's Church was built between about 1370 and 1520. Before printing, bibles were copied by hand, sometimes taking over a year per book. The fa…
Klokhuisplein
From 1904 to 1990, Museum Enschedé was at Klokhuisplein 5. It held tens of thousands of type punches, proofs and designs for Dutch banknotes and postage stamps…
Joh. Enschedé
Joh. Enschedé was founded in 1703 by Izaak Enschedé. The company made its name with Hebrew, scientific and music type, and later braille too. In 1743 it took o…
Janskerk
The Janskerk houses the Noord-Hollands Archief. Since 2015 it has kept the Enschedé collection, on hundreds of metres of shelving. In the permanent exhibition…
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