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A54 Route 58, EINDHOVEN. From Cologne
works were razed in 1868. The Stadhuis in the market-place, a
highly picturesque erection of 1595, contains a few interesting
paintings by the artist-antiquary Hubert Goltzius (1526-83), who
spent his youth in the town. In the Gothic Church of St. Martin,
built in 1411, are a copper font of 1624 and some carving of 1614.
Some of the quaint gabled houses of the 16th cent, should be
noticed. Venlo is the junction of railways to Miinchen-Gladbach
(p. 212}, to Wesel (Paris and Hamburg line), to Boxtel-Rotterdam
(R. 5 08), and to Flushing (R. 36b). — Steam-tramway via Tezelen
(p. 453) to Steyl.
The train crosses the Meuse. At Blerik (see below) the line to
Rotterdam diverges to the left.
49 M. Grubbenvorst- Klooster; 50 M. Grubbenvorst-Lottum:
521/5 M. Meerlo-Tienray ; 57 M. Venray ; 61 M. Vierlingsbeek; 65 M.
Boxmeer (Hotel Boomgard), with an old Carmelite convent; 691 9M.
Beugen, the junction for Boxtel and Wesel (p. 448); 7 12 M. Cuyk.
Near (75 M.) Mook, on the heath of the same name, the Counts Louis
and Henry of Nassau, brothers of William the Si nt, were defeated
and slain by the Spaniards, on April 14th, 1574.
51 M. Nymwegen, see p. 449.
58. From Cologne to Rotterdam (Hook of Holland)
via Venlo, Boxtel, and Breda (Flushing).
1531/2 M. Express in 5-5!/2 hrs. (fares 25 # 50 Ne) 18 4,10 M). Prussiar
way to Venlo; thence Dutch State Railway. — Stations at Rotter-
2, see p. 300. — This line is pee of the express through -routes
between England and North Germany, etc., in connection with the steamers
from va Wook of Holland to Harwich (p. 293) and from Flushing to Queen-
boro’ 294).
ae Cologne the train runs via Crefeld and Kempen, crosses
the Prussian frontier beyond Kaldenkirchen, and reaches Venlo in
13/4-2 hrs. For details, see Baedeker’s Rhine.
5D M. Venlo (see p- 453), the seat of the Dutch custom-house
authorities, is an important railway-junction. — The Rotterdam
line crosses the Meuse, diverges from the Nymwegen line at Blerik
{see above), and eeaen the morass of De Peel (25 M. long, 6 M.
wide). 561/)M. Horst-Sevenum; 6891/5 M. Helenaveen; 73 M. Deurne.
— 7191/5 M. Helmond (Hot. etter Rademaker), ae with 7000
inhab. and a remarkable old c hateau, on the Zuid - Willems -Vaart
(». xxxvili), which the railway crosses. Steam-tramway to Veghel
(p. 448) and ’S Hertogenbosch (p. 436). — 8414/5 M. Nuenen-Tongelre.
874/y M. Eindhoven (Hét.-Restaurant Hof van Holland, R. 11/p,
B. 3/4, Ds incl. wine, 21/4 fl.), a manufacturing town with 5700 in-
hab., the junction of the Has selt and Utrecht line (p. 434), which
ae ee route now follows. The modern Gothic church is by
J. H. Cuypers. Steam -tramway to Turnhout, see p. 205. —
a9 M. Best,
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