Olympische ringen - Goffertstadion - Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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On the Goffertstadion in Nijmegen the symbol of the olympic rings has been placed
Waymark Code: WM13CA9
Location: Gelderland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 11/07/2020
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Op het Goffertstadion in Nijmegen is boven een van de entrees, de Hazenkamptunnel in het noorden, het olympisch embleem aangebracht. Waarom dit is gedaan is niet bekend. Het Goffertstadion was nooit een olympisch stadion... De ringen waren sinds de bouw van het stadion in 1939 al aanwezig. De architect van het stadion, technisch tekenaar van de afdeling gemeentewerken D. Monshouwer, had al bij het ontwerp in 1938 de ringen gepland. Misschien is het ontwerp gebaseerd op het Olympisch stadion van Amsterdam? Het archief zwijgt helaas over de ringen en dus zullen we het waarschijnlijk nooit weten.
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The Olympic emblem has been applied to the Goffert Stadium in Nijmegen above one of the entrances, the Hazenkamptunnel in the north. Why this was done is not known. The Goffert Stadium was never an Olympic stadium ... The rings had been present since the construction of the stadium in 1939. The stadium's architect, technical draftsman of the municipal works department D. Monshouwer, had already planned the rings during the design in 1938. Maybe the design is based on the Olympic stadium of Amsterdam? Unfortunately, the archive is silent about the rings, so we'll probably never know.
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