{"id":192544,"date":"2021-11-25T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/?post_type=plaats&#038;p=192544"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:39:26","slug":"92-wijkamp-textile-factory","status":"publish","type":"plaats","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/place\/aalten\/varsseveldsestraatweg\/92-wijkamp-textile-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Wijkamp Textile Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 id=\"h-overzicht\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 9 August 1971, the <em>Nieuwe Winterswijksche Courant<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wijkamp N.V. in Aalten closes weaving department<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees in the weaving department of Wijkamp N.V. textile factory in Aalten were informed on Friday morning that they were to be made redundant. Seven people were affected by the closure of this part of the business. The garment-making and trading departments would continue as before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason given for closing the weaving department was that it had been operating at a loss in recent years. Rising wages and associated social charges had pushed production costs so high that maintaining the weaving operation was no longer considered viable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attempts to introduce a three-shift system, which might have made the department profitable again, had also failed because insufficient staff could be recruited. The weaving work was transferred to a German weaving mill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An application for the redundancies had been submitted to the regional labour office and the trade unions had been informed. Employees who wished to do so could take up work with another company willing to employ them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autowisselink.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Auto Wisselink<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/autoschade-aalten.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Autoschade Aalten<\/a> are based at this address.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/plaats\/aalten\/varsseveldsestraatweg\/94\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">number 94<\/a>, formerly Lintelo 192, lived <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/person\/wijkamp-hendrikus-lodevikus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H.L. Wijkamp<\/a> with his wife and daughter-in-law, the widow <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/person\/wijkamp-antonia-henrica-augustina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A.H.A. Wijkamp-Pillen<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Address history<\/h2><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1967 address directory<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Varsseveldsestraatweg 92<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wijkamp Textile Factory<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Owners<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This overview is not complete.<\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Year<\/th><th>Plot<\/th><th>Owner<\/th><th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1952<\/td><td>I-7684<\/td><td>vof H. Wijkamp &amp; Zoon<\/td><td>3,750 m2 factory, building<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varsseveldsestraatweg 92, Aalten (demolished)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":142350,"parent":187657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-192544","plaats","type-plaats","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plaats\/192544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plaats"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plaats"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plaats\/192544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196230,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plaats\/192544\/revisions\/196230"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plaats\/187657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}