On Monday, April 3, at 20.30, Heemkundekring De Kleine Meijerij held a lecture. Hans van den Eeden talks about the Iron Age in North Brabant.
The Iron Age brought trains to Oisterwijk (Photo: Toby de Kort).
This lecture by Hans van den Eeden focuses on nineteenth-century or Iron Age developments in Brabant. During this century, North Brabant changed from an agrarian society to a technological one. This century also marked social progress. Vincent van Gogh painted his potato eater there. Subsequently, the first railroads ran, many discoveries occurred and roads were paved and built. Infrastructure was also drastically improved. Politically, North Brabant was, for a time, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Canals and other waterways were dug. In the nineteenth century, the transition to modern times was made in Brabant. Attention was also paid to Oisterwijk and Lodewijk Napoleon’s visit to Brabant and Oisterwijk in 1809.
Lectures are supported musically. Hans van den Eeden is an investigative journalist and staff lecturer at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda. He wrote several books and cultural-historical articles. This course is free for members, non-members can join for € 4.00 per person. De Voorhof’s address is Kerkstraat 64 in Oisterwijk (entrance on the right diagonally behind the church).
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