{"id":187705,"date":"2022-06-14T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/plaats\/bredevoort\/prins-mauritsstraat\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:44:01","slug":"prins-mauritsstraat","status":"publish","type":"plaats","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/prins-mauritsstraat\/","title":{"rendered":"Prins Mauritsstraat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Prins Mauritsstraat is a street just outside Bredevoort\u2019s historic centre, following the line of the former moat around the fortified town. It begins as a side street off <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/misterstraat\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Misterstraat<\/a> and runs past the <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/prins-mauritsstraat\/old-cemetery-bredevoort\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cemetery<\/a> towards Winterswijksestraat. There it bends, crosses the Slingebeek by bridge and continues along a section that formerly belonged to Stationsweg, with a turn-off to Bastionstraat, before ending at <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/koppelstraat\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Koppelstraat<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maurits_van_Oranje\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prince Maurice<\/a> held Bredevoort in pledge from 1612 to 1625. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beleg_van_Bredevoort_(1597)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Siege of Bredevoort<\/a> in 1597, he succeeded in taking the town from the south with the aid of cork bridges, an innovation at the time. The approach must have been roughly from Zwanenbroek and the section of Prins Mauritsstraat near the present <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/koppelstraat\/koppelkerk\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Koppelkerk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prins Mauritsstraat was laid out after the moat was filled in and Bredevoort\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/war-resistance\/bredevoort-fortress\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fortifications<\/a> were dismantled at this location. From the early 20th century, small-scale industry was established on the newly available land and the general cemetery was created. The Jewish burial ground near <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/hozenstraat\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hozenstraat<\/a> was cleared, and the remains were reinterred in the <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/bredevoort\/prins-mauritsstraat\/jewish-cemetery-bredevoort\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jewish cemetery<\/a> on Prins Mauritsstraat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bredevoort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":187996,"parent":140902,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"thema":[],"functie":[],"class_list":["post-187705","plaats","type-plaats","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prins Mauritsstraat | Old Aalten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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