Overview
The name De Graafschap was used in Aalten by a business whose activities included printing, publishing, bookselling and, later, an art shop. During the twentieth century its various activities were based at several addresses.
Landstraat and Geurdenstraat
In the early twentieth century De Graafschap’s printing works, publishing business and bookshop were based at Landstraat 23-25, at number 25. In the early 1930s the printing works moved to Geurdenstraat, an address that at the time was still numbered as part of Varsseveldsestraatweg.
Bookshop De Graafschap was also based at Landstraat 19. A letterhead from 1951 identifies Antonius Lammers’s bookshop there as the successor to De Graafschap.
De Graafschap art shop
Around 1960 W.J. Delleman, owner of the De Graafschap printing and publishing business, bought part of a plot on Landstraat and had a combined house and shop built there. He established Kunsthandel De Graafschap in the new premises at Landstraat 8. In 1967 the property was registered to N.V. Kunsthandel De Graafschap.
The individual Place pages record the history of the buildings and addresses; this profile brings together the history of De Graafschap as an organisation.