Under the watchful eye of Bommen Berend, the bishop of Münster, who besieged the castle in 1665, mayor Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff signs the deed of transfer. On the left archaeologist Ko Lenting and on the right Frank Ferrari, chairman of the Burcht Wedde foundation.
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The Haselhoff Family Foundation on Instagram
06-02-2022
The Haselhoff Family Foundation can also be found on Instagram from today. Here we will share stories, photos and research results. If you have Instagram, you can follow us. Click here!
WANTED: Which Hazelhoff made this painting?
11-10-2021
An American visitor to our website sent us a message with a photo of a painting he had bought in Illinois in the USA. Since it is signed with E. Hazelhoff, he wondered if we would know who the painter is. In our opinion, the painting shows a typical Dutch scene, but we do not know a painter E. Hazelhoff. The painting was made in 1898 or 1998.
So our question: does anyone know who this E. Hazelhoff is, and does anyone know if E. Hazelhoff has painted anything else? You would make our American visitor very happy with new information.
If you know anything, we would like to hear it via info@haselhoffstichting.nl
Board of the Haselhoff Family Foundation
Video from 2013 to watch again
08-09-2021
On 3 May 2013, the unveiling of the triptych took place in the Burcht in Wedde, which can still be admired in the Haselhoff Society. The unveiling was performed by Karna Hazelhoff Roelfzema (Erik's daughter) and actor Matteo van der Grijn, who at the time played the role of Erik in the musical Soldaat van Oranje. Albert Hazelhoff speaks as spokesperson for our family foundation.
The report of this afternoon - recorded by RTV Noord - has been unavailable for a while, but since last week the video has been uploaded again on YouTube. A nice look back at this special moment!
Haselhoff Family Foundation on GenealogieOnline.nl
12-08-2021
The Family Foundation can be found on GenealogieOnline.nl from today. This is a website on which family tree data can be published and made available to the general public. In time, the entire family tree - as described in our two Chronicles - will be available online and searchable (with the exception of living persons, of course).
We have made a start with putting the branch of Eppe Roelfs from Kropswolde online.
Click here to view this genealogy.
There will be an Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzemaduin
21-04-2021
Resistance hero Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema is honored at Scheveningen with his own dune. New building will be built on this existing dune - it concerns part of Zeekant - and there is now no room for new house numbering. That is why the new name Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzemaduin was chosen.
Read more...
New website for the Family Foundation!
08-03-2021
As you can see, the Family Foundation has a completely new website! All information from the old website has been transferred and can now be found here. This website will be expanded in the near future. How and in what form we will announce later. To be continued!
Dark clouds over the Castle
07-10-2020
The lord of Wedde has issued an ultimatum to the municipality, according to Dagblad van het Noorden.
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YouTube series Bas van der Heide
25-09-2020
Bas van der Heide has been researching the history of his ancestors for over six years. He is currently making a six-part series about his ancestors on YouTube. He visits the places where they have lived and worked and also tells about the history of the places concerned. Part of his ancestors consists of the Hazelhoff family (and before that Haselhoff). His great-grandmother was Marieka Geertruida Klasiena Hazelhoff (IX-112).
HaselhoffBulletin 1/20 published
09-07-2020
The first Haselhoff bulletin of 2020 was published last month.
Read a short summary here.
Liesbeth List passed away
29-03-2020
On March 25, the grande dame of the Dutch chanson Liesbeth List passed away at the age of 78. She was not only a well-known Dutch person, but also a relative - albeit distant - for us. We know this from the TV program Hidden Past, in which she went in search of her ancestors. She turned out to be a descendant of Elso Arnoldus Haselhoff, lieutenant in Napoleon's army. For the TV program that was broadcast in 2011, recordings were made in the Wedder borg, where she was offered the Chronicle of the Haselhoff family. Liesbeth List was very interested in her family history and a year later, together with her husband and 2 board members of the Family Foundation, visited the former Haselhof farm in Wambel near Dortmund.
The Dutch chansonnière is known for songs such as Love life and sang many translated Jacques Brel songs. Legendary was her collaboration with Ramses Shaffy, which resulted in the song Pastorale, for example.
In her career, List won two Edisons and a Golden Harp. She worked for the song Pastorale, among others, with Ramses Shaffy. List also proved her artistic talent in musicals. She played the role of French singer Edith Piaf twice, in Piaf in 1999 and again ten years later. She won the Johnny Kraaykamp Musical Award for both roles. She stopped performing in 2017, she was suffering from dementia. Shortly afterwards, a musical about her life was made: Liesbeth.
List has also sung several songs with Frank Boeijen. About ten days before her death, she shared the song The abandoned city on Facebook, for "this difficult time", referring to the corona crisis.
Source: NRC Handelsblad.
Soldier of Orange to England!
30-09-2019
After a long search, the producer of the Musical Soldaat van Oranje has found the ideal location in London to play an English version of the performance.
Construction on the new theater will begin at the end of 2019 opposite City Airport in East London's Royal Docks. Soldier of Orange – The Musical is expected to premiere in the fall of 2020.
In the Netherlands, the Musical has also been extended again, until well into 2020.
Board change
17-08-2019
As of July 2019, another board change took place. Hillegonde Hazelhoff has joined the board. This means that the board is not only complete, but the much-needed rejuvenation has also taken place. Hillegonde, welcome and good luck and fun.
Board change II
14-10-2018
As of January 1, 2019, chairman Kees Hazelhoff will resign. After almost 25 years on the board, he thinks it is a good thing and is happy to hand over the work to his successor. He will continue to manage the website for the time being.
Family Day Leek
08-10-2018
On Saturday, October 6, the ninth family day was held at the Nienoord Estate in Leek. For a small photo impression, see the Family Days page.
The Wedde Castle is richer by a special painting
01-10-2018
The Burcht in Wedde has been enriched by a special painting since yesterday. It is a portrait of Guillemina Hazelhoff Roelfzema-Verster (1816 - 1887). The painting has been offered to the Burcht because the Hazelhoff family has been associated with it for almost 400 years, since Derck Haselhoff was appointed guarantor in 1637. For more information, see this page.
Board change
20-07-2018
As of 15 July 2018, there was a change of management. Harold Hazelhoff has left the board and Albert has joined the board as an advisor/researcher. Of course we thank Harold for the work he has done for our foundation and once again welcome Albert, as a "old-timer", to the board.
castle news
15-07-2018
Stephanie Hazelhoff Heeres, recently read an interesting article about the history of the Burcht in Wedde. Although it does not relate to our family history, it is certainly worth reading. Click on this link for the entire article.
Unveiling plaque on bastion Burcht in Wedde
23-04-2018
The last tangible trace of the Oranges was unveiled on the grounds of the Burcht in Wedde last Saturday, April 21. A plaque that shows that 450 years ago Lodewijk, William of Orange's brother, conquered the castle and also lived there.
Fenny Reitsma-Hazelhoff
23-04-2018
The access road to Hegebeintum has recently been provided with 25 stainless steel step stones with the names of former residents of Harsta State. On this occasion, Fenny Reitsma-Hazelhoff performed the opening together with Mayor Wil van der Berg, dressed in a beautiful 17th century outfit.
Princess Irene sleeps in Castle in Wedde
16-03-2018
Princess Irene slept last night in the castle of Wedde. That is a special place for the princess and her family. Exactly 450 years ago, Lodewijk and Adolf, brothers of William of Orange, moved into the castle. From there they went to Heiligerlee to record their first victory over the Spaniards. Since then, no descendants of the Oranje-Nassau family have slept here, according to the chairman of the Frank Ferrari. He was informed three days earlier that the princess wanted to spend the night at the castle, in connection with her visit to the national tree day in Heiligerlee.
Farewell Mayor Bellingwedde
18-01-2018
On January 1, 2018, the municipality of Bellingwedde merged with the municipality of Vlagtwedde and is now called the municipality of Westerwolde. From November 2013, Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff ( X1-153) has been mayor there and has done so with verve. She was very much seen in our congregation.
On December 20, the population said goodbye to B and W with a very pleasant evening in the Meet, a meeting center in Bellingwolde. After the opening by the mayor, the evening was brightened up by Arno van der Heyden, a well-known Groningen comedian. The chain of office that Janneke wears is from the original municipality of Wedde. This chain was created in 1853 when the municipality of Wedde was founded. This municipality was merged with Bellingwolde in 1968 and was then given the name Bellingwedde.
ANWB bicycle route Soldier of Orange
16-08-2016
In the presence of, among others, a 96-year-old former England sailor, Frits van Bruggen opened a new ANWB cycle route on 28 April, which has been given the name Soldaat van Oranje route. Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (1917 - 2007), is the common thread in the route that covers 55 kilometers and runs from the center of The Hague, via Scheveningen and the dunes, through Leiden, Voorschoten and Wassenaar back to The Hague.
Farewell miller Jan Hazelhoff
21-07-2016
On June 14, miller Jan Hazelhoff from Blijham took his voluntary farewell after 32 years of 'millership'. Alderman Wim 't Mannetje thanked him on behalf of the municipality for his many years of dedication and handed him a gift basket. He recalled: “Without the commitment of volunteer millers such as Mr Hazelhoff, the preservation of the mills in Bellingwedde is impossible. We are therefore very grateful to Mr Hazelhoff for his involvement with the mills in our municipality.”
The municipality of Bellingwedde owns three mills. The management of these mills is in the hands of five volunteer millers. The 79-year-old Mr. Hazelhoff was part of this miller's group for many years. In his 'miller career' he has managed several mills in Bellingwedde. In recent years, Mr. Hazelhoff mainly turned the blades of the Niemans Molen, a flour mill in Veelerveen.
Source: Bellingwedde municipality website.
Presentation of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prizes
17-07-2016
Elisabeth Leijnse received the 2016 Biography Prize from HH Prince Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje-Nassau, Van Vollenhoven, for her biography Cécile and Elsa. Combatant ladies (De Geus). Jeroen van den Biggelaar [Utrecht University] received the Erik Hazelhoff Young Talent Award 2016 for short-term modern architecture. Four cases of early demolished buildings from the 1970s. Van den Biggelaar received the prize in the Hodshon House from Karna Hazelhoff Roelfzema.
Read more here.
From Weertshuis to Borggraafhuis
25-03-2016
Last year an extensive article about the Borggraafhuis in Wedde was published in two consecutive issues of the magazine Terra Westerwolda. Written by our researchers Albert Hazelhoff and Roelof Hazelhoff.
Read more here.
A Hazelhoff lives in 'Ger'
25-03-2016
Some time ago a nice article about Ulco Jelles Hazelhoff was published in the Volkskrant magazine [51]. He is a furniture maker and designer by profession and has lived with the KW37 artists' community in Arnhem South since 2011, in a Mongolian Ger (tent) with an area of 30 square meters.
Read more here.
Bed & Breakfast De Hazelhoff in Wedde
18-11-2014
For several months there has been a sign with our family crest on it along the old road from Wedde to Blijham. De Hazelhoff, holiday home and B&B tells it all. So family must live there. And that's right. Jan Ger Oord and Mieranda Hazelhoff (XII-62) live at Hoornderweg 2 Wedde. In the front house of their converted farmhouse, guests can spend a weekend, a midweek or even a holiday for one or more weeks. And from there, of course, enjoy the beautiful Westerwold landscape. The AA flows right behind their farm and the Wedder burcht with the Haselhoff society is at a walking distance of 2 kilometers. Besides the B&B, Jan Ger and Miranda also have a permaculture company. Permaculture can be described as the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing for their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. The couple has permaculture gardens and food forests on the nearly 2-acre property near the farm. There are also pigs, chickens and ducks foraging around. Would you like to spend the night in De Hazelhoff or visit their company? More information can be found on their website www.dehazelhoff.nl.
Back to the Golden Age
27-09-2014
The NRC of 27 September contains an interesting article about Groningen and the Ommelanden. It also pays attention to the various fortifications such as the Wedde Castle. The current function of this Burcht is explained, while the Haselhoff Society is also explicitly mentioned.
Read more here.
New biography of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
30-04-2014
Mr Onno Sinke has been working on Erik Hazelhoff-Roelfzema's biography for several months now. The book will be published in 2018 by Boom publishing house. The publication is financially supported by the Prince Bernhard Cultuur Fonds and the Special Journalistic Projects Fund. In this biography Onno Sinke wants to place Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema in the context of his time and his milieu . He plans to pay close attention to his family. Therefore, he is looking for information about him and his close relatives.
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Do you have letters, diaries, photographs, newspaper articles or other material relating to them? Or do you know stories about him, his parents, sister, grandparents, etc.? Then he would like to get in touch with you. You can reach him on tel. number 06-24271379 or by e-mail: onnosinke@gmail.com.
Background information Onno Sinke:
In April 2009 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on Radio Oranje, Resistance from afar. The cautious course of Radio Oranje. He subsequently conducted research into the history of this university during the Second World War on behalf of TU Delft. In 2012, he published the book Loyalty in Oppression on this subject. Delft University of Technology during the occupation. He has also made a documentary and an exhibition about this. In between he worked as a journalist. During his biography, he was associated with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) as an associated researcher.
Widow Soldier of Orange about her eternal love
28-04-2014
Karin Hazelhoff recently visited Roelfzema Soldaat van Oranje, the beautiful musical. For the fifteenth time. Her husband, resistance hero Erik, told this newspaper on his tropical island in the Pacific just before his death: “They are going to make something weird about me. Well, I've yet to see it all. People who sing and then talk. Fighting, flying and humming songs again… What are you supposed to do with that?”
Read more here.
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize 2014
16-04-2014
On 14 April 2014, the Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize Foundation awarded the Erik Hazelhoff Young Talent Prize and the Biography Prize for the third time. The winners of the 2014 Biography Prize are: • Rick Honings and Peter van Zonneveld . • The Crippled Eagle. The life of Willem Bilderdijk [Prometheus Publishers • Bert Bakker]The winner of the Erik Hazelhoff Young Talent Award 2014 is: • Wiebe de Graaf Taco Kuiper (1894-1945) 'I am personally liable for my death' [University of Groningen]
New book about Westerwolde
28-02-2014
Edward Houting, Klaas Roelof de Poel and Hans Vrijer are the three compilers of the Noordboek edition "Westerwolde", about the landscape and the villages. The book was presented on Saturday 15 February in the Boschhuis in Ter Apel and is now available in bookshops and through the newspaper van het Noorden. The book is the result of extensive research into the origin and development of landscape and villages in Westerwolde. The authors take the reader on a 224 page journey through this characteristic part of the Netherlands. The colourful, hardcover edition is illustrated with hundreds of photos, maps and illustrations.
Hazelhoff transfers archaeological finds to Wedde Castle
24-01-2014
On Saturday 24 January 2014, in her position as acting mayor of Bellingwedde, Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff handed over the archaeological finds that have emerged around the castle over the years to Frank Ferrari. In addition to medieval wine bottles, it mainly concerns a lot of weaponry. The objects have been given a place in display cases in the Ridderzaal and the Haselhoff Society.
Read more here.
Liesbeth List patroness of the Castle in Wedde
04-01-2014
As of 2014, Liesbeth List has committed herself as a “guardian” to the De Burcht Wedde Foundation. She does this through her personal involvement with the castle and with the aim of the Foundation to give vulnerable children a special holiday.
Read more here.
Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff: The new 'Borggraaf van Wedde'?
29-11-2013
Janneke Snijder now sees the Burcht in Wedde every day. But that sight is not new to the new mayor of Bellingwedde. That ancient building was already with her at the Binnenhof in The Hague. It was even with her when she was a girl. In 1999, Snijder got an office at the Binnenhof. The resident of Wagenborgen then became a Member of Parliament for the VVD. "And what did I see hanging in that study," she says. "An old drawing of the Castle. I recognized the building immediately.
Read more here.
Find in Groningen Archives
25-11-2013
Find in the Groninger Archive: During a visit to the Groninger Archive, our researchers Albert and Roelof Hazelhoff discovered a pamphlet with a poem on the 50th wedding anniversary of Lucas Haselhoff (IV-20) and his second wife Catharina Eisinghe on September 7, 1771.
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize 2013
13-11-2013
The Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Biography Prize will be awarded on 14 April 2014 on Biography Day. The jury consists of: Paul Schabel (chair), Hans Renders (Biography Institute), Els Kloek (historian), Luc Devoldere (classicist, philosopher, author, editor-in-chief of Ons Erfdeel), Marja Pruis (writer, journalist, book editor De Groene Amsterdammer). More information about the Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize can be found at www.erikhazelhoffprijs.nl.
Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff appointed as acting mayor Bellingwedde
11-11-2013
The King's Commissioner Max van den Berg has appointed Ms Janneke Snijder-Hazelhoff (VVD) as acting mayor in consultation with the party leaders of the council of the municipality of Bellingwedde. Mrs. Snijder has been a member of the House of Representatives, alderman and councilor, among other things. The appointment will take effect on 14 November 2013 and will last for two years for the time being.
Read more here.
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema Prize Foundation
09-09-2013
On September 9, 2013, in the Bilderberg Garden Hotel in Amsterdam, the book “Living next to the camp” was presented to Dick Berlin by writer Boyd van Dijk, winner of the Erik Hazelhoff Young Talent Prize 2012.
Read more here.
Opening exhibition about the Hazelhoff Roelfzema family
07-08-2013
The memory of war hero Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema lives on in the castle of the Groningen village of Wedde. And, according to his two cousins, there have been more 'Soldaten van Oranje' with the same last name in recent centuries.
Read more here.
Interview about "The soldiers of Orange" at the Burcht in Wedde.
Unveiling triptych in the Castle in Wedde
02-05-2013
On May 2, 2013, Karna, the daughter of Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Matteo van der Grijn, the performer of Erik in Soldaat van Oranje-De Musical, unveiled the triptych in the Haselhoff Society by removing a canvas. In the presence of the board members of the Family Foundation, the mayor of Bellingwedde, the bailiffs and various persons who contributed to the establishment of the Haselhoff Society and the triptych. Including of course the makers, Rudmer Nijman and Elske Hiddema. Various newspapers and regional radio and TV paid attention to this, for our family, unique event. In the previous HaselhoffBulletin (2/12) we depicted the triptych in color.
New Castle Historian Castle in Wedde
2013
If there is one who knows everything about the history of the Burcht, it is Harm Nijboer. The Oud-Wedder has spent almost his entire life researching the history of the Burcht. There is almost nothing published about De Burcht that Harm does not own. De Burcht is therefore very happy that Harm is now associated with the Burcht as a volunteer and that he has ensured that a large part of his historical material is now also present in the Burcht. As a result, the history of the Burcht can also be consulted by other interested parties. If you would like to make use of this, please contact Jelle van Luijk by telephone in advance, so that a suitable time can be planned.
More about Wedde Castle?
2013
If you are interested in current activities in and around the Burcht, go to the website of Stichting de Burcht Wedde.
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0172-898309
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