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Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aalten once had its own rusk factory: the ‘Aaltensche Beschuitfabriek E.J. Wijers’. The factory was already being advertised in 1917. On 8 July 1919, the Aaltensche Courant<\/em> reported that J. Leeser\u2019s large slaughterhouse was to be converted into a cake and rusk factory by E.J. Wijers, together with J.W. Wijers of Doetinchem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the early 1930s, the rusk factory had apparently ceased operating. De Graafschapbode of 4 March 1932 reported:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe learn from a very reliable source that Mr Elsinghorst, stove manufacturer of Bocholt, has rented the former cake and rusk factory<\/strong> of the Wijers firm, with the intention of also manufacturing stoves in Aalten. As this firm is already very well established in this country, production here will save import duties. A storage building is also to be erected beside the factory and a railway siding will probably be laid. A small part of the buildings, in which a clog factory<\/strong><\/a> is established, will remain in that use. In these times of unemployment, the establishment of this industry here is very welcome.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1948, De Graafschapper looked back on the Wijers rusk factory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr Leezer formerly had his slaughterhouse here, after which it was sold to the firm Gebr. Wijers, who converted it into a rusk factory<\/strong>. Later still it passed to the Pothof firm, which promoted it to a clog factory<\/strong><\/a>. During the war years it was requisitioned by the German Treppmann, and now the machines of the Pothof firm are running there again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Address history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This site \u2014 formerly Polstraat 62 and Polstraat 64, later Koopmanstraat 77 \u2014 is now occupied by housing. Brederostraat was laid out across the site, and homes were also built along Koopmanstraat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several businesses occupied the site during the 20th century:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Leeser slaughterhouse (1916) \u2192 E.J. Wijers Rusk Factory (from 1919) \u2192 Pothof Clog Factory<\/a> (1930s\u20131940s) \u2192 Martin\/Agave<\/a> (1951\u20132000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 address directory<\/h3>\n\n

Aalten D724 > Polstraat 62<\/p>\n

Rusk factory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

1967 address directory<\/h3>\n\n

Polstraat 62<\/p>\n

Factory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Owners<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This overview is not complete.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/th>Plot<\/th>Owner<\/th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1916<\/td>I-4089<\/td>Joseph Leeser, butcher & merchant<\/em><\/td>3,118 m\u00b2 export slaughterhouse & yard<\/td><\/tr>
1918<\/td>I-5754<\/td>Joseph Leeser, butcher & merchant<\/em><\/td>10,548 m\u00b2 export slaughterhouse,
stables & grassland<\/td><\/tr>
1921<\/td>I-5754<\/td>N.V. “Wijers’ Beschuit- en Koekfabriek”<\/td>10,548 m\u00b2 factory & grassland<\/td><\/tr>
1933<\/td>I-6428<\/td>N.V. “Wijers’ Beschuit- en Koekfabriek”<\/td>10,640 m\u00b2 factory & grassland<\/td><\/tr>
1942<\/td>I-6428<\/td>Gerhard Trepmann, manufacturer<\/em><\/td>10,640 m\u00b2 house, shed,
factory & grassland<\/td><\/tr>
1952<\/td>I-6428<\/td>N.V. “H. Martin”<\/td>10,640 m\u00b2 house, shed,
factory & grassland<\/td><\/tr>
1962<\/td>I-8728
I-8729<\/td>		N.V. “H. Martin”
N.V. “Aaltense Garenveredeling Agave”<\/td>		7,020 m\u00b2 factory, yard, house, office
3,620 m\u00b2 factory, yard<\/td><\/tr>
1978
1977<\/td>		I-8728
I-9207<\/td>		Gerrit Johan Kramp, director of a private limited company<\/em>
Garenveredeling Aalten B.V.<\/td>		7,020 m\u00b2 factory, yard, house, office
3,475 m\u00b2 factory, yard<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Images<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Koopmanstraat\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>
Cadastral map fragment, 1918 (plot I-5754)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Leeser
De Graafschapper, 13 August 1915<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Leeser
Aaltensche Courant, 8 July 1919<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"E.J.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>
E.J. Wijers sealing label<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Aalten\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>
Aaltensche Courant, 23 April 1920<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Wijers\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>
Graafschapbode, 13 December 1929<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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