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1. City and Province
The part of The Netherlands that we now know as the Province of Groningen bears this name for about two centuries. Those who wanted to indicate this area before the year 1800 spoke of Stad en Lande (City and Province) or of Groningen en Ommelanden (Groningen and Hinterland).
Throughout the ages the relations between the City of Groningen and the rest of the area currently belonging to the Province of Groningen defined for an important part the events in this district. Those who study the history of this province encounter this theme repeatedly. It is also important to realize that the area outside the City of Groningen wasn’t united. For ages we knew here different regions and landscapes. They are distinct in physical geographic features, characteristic and origin of the population and habits and legislation. Therefore the economical and political interests of their inhabitants were different. In the course of the ages the impact of these differences has diminished, although even nowadays there are some recognizable traces.
To prevent misunderstanding we are using the name Groningen only for the city. The hinterland will be called Groningerland.
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| About 1000 years Groningen |
City Historian Jan van den Broek tells in 23 chapters in short the history of the City and Province of Groningen from the last 1000 years.
All chapters together constitute one story.
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| About the author |
Jan van den Broek (1945) has been working for Groninger archival bodies since 1971. At first, at the Rijksarchief in the Province of Groningen, and then, for 25 years, as Municipal Archivist for the City of Groningen. During those years he has taken initiatives for many projects in the realm of the City and Regional history, worked together with other person’s initiatives, organized exhibitions, edited books and magazines etc. As of 2002, he is, as employee of the RHC Groninger Archieven, working on the compilation of a modern access point to the old city archives of Groningen (1246-1594). Apart from that, he is preparing a number of large publications about the history of Groningen and Groningerland in the period directly preceding the union of our district with the United Netherlands (1594).
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