Former Hotel La Promenade

In 1905, the house was built as a hotel with a terrace under the name La Promenade. Walkers went there for a drink and travellers could stay overnight. Shortly after its opening, manager Jan van Hemmen was hit on the head with a chair leg by a drunken student and lost his life. In the 1920s, Meindert Johannes Eerelman's family came to live here. He was a printer and the coach house housed the presses. Around 1937, Eerelman's Weekblad was founded here, an advertising newspaper for Haren, which also contained short news items. During the war years, resistance work was done in this building. The windows were taped off and then Trouw was printed illegally, as well as making documents that allowed people to escape the Arbeitseinsatz. In 1943, the first services of the Vrijgemaakt Gereformeerde Kerk were held in the print shop.

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Source

• Text: Bert Deelman
• Photos: Bert Deelman
• - https://www.harendekrant.nl/nieuws/verval-van-een-harens-pand-le-promenade/