Patriotic scandals

[Bonobo]

A private investor renovated an ex-German post office in Gdańsk and kept the German name. Local patriots, mostly righ wingers, are indignant. They claim it used to be the Polish post office defended in 1939 which is complete bullshi.t.

[Bonobo]

AUDI company critisised for their ad campaign with one car standing in front of Warsaw Rising monument.



www.newsweek.pl/polska/audi-pod-pomnikiem-powstania-warszawskiego-wina-i-odkupienie,artykuly,411118,1.html

[pjotr]

To make it more complicated and controversial. The architecture of the gable (house front), and the windows in the building doesn't look German (Prussian) at all, but typical 17th century Dutch or Flemish.

It is the typical facade of a Dutch metchant house of the East Indies Company or the West Indies Company. Due to the Hanze trade the was a Dutch connection with Gdansk (Dantzig in German and Dutch). You probably had a Dutch trade settlement there. The Dutch traded with the Polish nobility which had large estates in Poland and Ukraine and produced a lot of cereals. The Dutch imported french wine and exported that to Poland and Russia. What Dutch products they sold I Can't remember (maybe Dutch linnen, paintings and cheese)?

Cheers,
Pieter

[Bonobo]

Jun 5, 2017 19:44:50 GMT 1 pjotr said:

To make it more complicated and controversial. The architecture of the gable (house front), and the windows in the building doesn't look German (Prussian) at all, but typical 17th century Dutch or Flemish.

It is the typical facade of a Dutch metchant house of the East Indies Company or the West Indies Company. Due to the Hanze trade the was a Dutch connection with Gdansk (Dantzig in German and Dutch). You probably had a Dutch trade settlement there. The Dutch traded with the Polish nobility which had large estates in Poland and Ukraine and produced a lot of cereals. The Dutch imported french wine and exported that to Poland and Russia. What Dutch products they sold I Can't remember (maybe Dutch linnen, paintings and cheese)?
Cheers,
Pieter

There are more of them in Gdańsk.




But if local patriots learn they originated in the Netherlands, the tension will subside. Only German motifs work as a red colour to the bull.

Here, original Holland

[pjotr]

Funny, the original Dutch house photo is taken on the Zeedijk (Sea d**e) in the Red light district of Amsterdam. This by the way is a decent part of it with good restaurants, pubs and coffee houses. You have very good Chinese, Thai, Philippinian restaurants over there next to the Dutch ones. Both tourists and Dutch people like to go there. In the middle of the Zeedijk you have a large Buddhist temple. The area is the core of the Chinese community in Amsterdam, with a lot of Chinese shops, supermarkets and restaurants. The best Chinese restaurant is on a square at the end of the Zeedijk.


The Buddhist temple in the middle of the Zeedijk street.


Thai restaurant at the Zeedijk street


Chinese restaurant at the Zeedijk


Malaysian restaurant Zeedijk, Amsterdam


Gaybar, the Queenshead in the same Zeedijk street


The Zeedijk on heartsday

[pjotr]

Gdańsk Holland house residence

In 1565 the Gdańsk becomes part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and in 1569 Mennonite Church was founded here.

In the 1575 election of a king to the Polish throne, Gdańsk supported Maximilian II against Stephen Báthory. It was the latter who eventually became monarch but the city, encouraged by the secret support of Denmark and Emperor Maximilian, shut its gates against Stephen. After the Siege of Danzig (1577), lasting six months, the city's army of 5,000 mercenaries was utterly defeated in a field battle on 16 December 1577. However, since Stephen's armies were unable to take the city by force, a compromise was reached: Stephen Báthory confirmed the city's special status and her Danzig Law privileges granted by earlier Polish kings. The city recognised him as ruler of Poland and paid the enormous sum of 200,000 guldens in gold as payoff ("apology").

Stephen Báthory (Hungarian: Báthory István; Polish: Stefan Batory; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was Voivode of Transylvania (1571–76), Prince of Transylvania (1576–86), from 1576 Queen Anna Jagiellon's husband and jure uxoris King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576-1586).


Flemish & Dutch style houses in Gdańsk

Beside the large numbers of German-speakers, whose elites sometimes distinguished their German dialect as Pomerelian, Gdańsk was home to a large number of Polish-speaking Poles, Jewish Poles, Latvian speaking Kursenieki, Flemings and Dutch. In addition, a number of Scots took refuge or migrated to and received citizenship in the city. During the Protestant Reformation, most German-speaking inhabitants adopted Lutheranism. Due to the special status of the city and significance within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the city inhabitants largely became bi-cultural sharing both Polish and German culture and were strongly attached to the traditions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.


Flemish & Dutch style houses in Gdańsk