Streets in the Netherlands named after Leeuwenhoek
In the Netherlands today, more than six dozen streets of various types are named after Antony van Leeuwenhoek. Is one near you?
Willem Reijnders is responsible for all the bicycle riding behind the map below. He writes:
I hope van Leeuwenhoek would be a biker like most Dutch people are, if bycicles had existed in his day.
Most probably he would have improved the technical parts, as he did with his microscopes. And then win the Tour the France on a bike that no one else had….
When writing parts of the van Leeuwenhoek biography, I liked the idea of combining a few hobbies, books, bikes, and pictures.
So I took my bike and went for all the streets, named after Van Leeuwenhoek, not only to enjoy the beauty of our country, but also to find out that he, in science as in geography, is surrounded by Swammerdam, Huygens, Boerhaave, and more.
I took pictures and found out that many cities called him unjustly “Inventor of the Microscope” or “Biologist”, or even “Bacteriologist”.
The project is finished, 79 cities in total, 75 in The Netherlands. I only found four street in other countries, and that is not really true, because Oranjestad/Aruba still is a part of the Netherlands, as is Willemstad/Curacao. The two other cities are located in South Africa: Leeuwenhoekstreet in Bloemfontein and Leeuwenhoekstreet, Duncanville, in Vereeniging.
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This map, or another, could include streets outside the Netherlands named after him, too. Are there any near you? Contact us.
| Van Leeuwenhoekpark 2014 Spoorbaan Leiden Haarlem Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 1815 Alkmaar Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 1704 Heerhugowaard Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 1782 Den Helder Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Laak Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 's-Gravenzande Van Leeuwenhoeklaan Zoetermeer Leeuwenhoekweg 2661 Bergschenhoek Van Leeuwenhoeksingel 2611 Delft Leeuwenhoekstraat 2316 Leiden Leeuwenhoekstraat 2652 Berkel en Rodenrijs Van Leeuwenhoekweg 2731 Benthuizen Leeuwenhoekstraat 1091 Amsterdam Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Hoogeveen Van Leeuwenhoeklaan Azeven Noord, 9222 Drachten Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 2041 Zandvoort Van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9752 Haren Oudeschoot, bij Heerenveen Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 9727 Stadsparkwijk Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Leeuwarden Van Leeuwenhoeklaan 7002 Doetinchem Anthonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 6525 Nijmegen-Midden Van Leeuwenhoekweg Winterswij |
Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Leeuwenhoekstraat Anthony van Leeuwenhoeklaan |
Van Leeuwenhoeklaan 5707 Helmond Van Leeuwenhoeklaan Vlijmen Van Leeuwenhoeklaan 4904 Oosterhout Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 5223 's-Hertogenbosch Van Leeuwenhoekweg 5482 Schijndel Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Lorentz II, 3846 Harderwijk Leeuwenhoekstraat 3817 Leusderkwartier Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 6717 Ede Anthoni van Leeuwenhoekstraat 7316 Apeldoorn Noord Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 3132 Vlaardingen Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 2984 Ridderkerk Anthoni van Leeuwenhoekstraat 3331 Zwijndrecht Van Leeuwenhoekweg 3316 Industriegebied West Van Leeuwenhoeckstraat 3112 Schiedam Van Leeuwenhoekhof, 3045 Overschie Van Leeuwenhoekhof, 3045 Overschie Van Leeuwenhoekstraat 3172 Poortugaal Anthony van Leeuwenhoeklaan 7555 Hengelo Antonie van Leeuwenhoekstraat Trambaan, 3291 Strijen Antonie van Leeuwenhoekstraat Bedrijventerrein de Bosschen, 3261 Oud-Beijerland Antonie van Leeuwenhoekstraat 3362 Sliedrecht Anth. van Leeuwenhoekstraat 5756 Vlierden Van Leeuwenhoekstraat Oostrum |
