Answers to the Woudrichem Scavenger Hunt.

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Here come the answers:
1. There is a monk on the bear, so enemies could not enter the city over the bear.
2. Hugo fled in a book chest from Slot Loevestein.
3. The river between Woudrichem and Loevestein is the Afgedamde Maas.
4. The other two rivers are the Waal (behind the Maas) and the Merwede (from the point where Maas and Waal meet).
5. The three provinces bordering here are North Brabant (Woudrichem), South Holland (Gorinchem) and Gelderland (Loevestein).
6. The Old Raedthuys was built in the year 1592.
7. Behind the doors were prison cells (and the house above it was police station).
8. Answer a is correct. Around the year 866 the first houses were built here.
9. This alley is called Alversteigersteegje.
Hoogstraat 4 was built in the year 1601.
Hoogstraat 6 and 8 were also built in the year 1601.
12Hoogstraat 10 and 12 were built in the year 1593.
Hoogstraat 14 and 16 were built in the year 1606.
Hoogstraat 20 was built in the year 1600.
15. The bulges in the Prison Gate are stone cannonballs.
16. Jacoba of Bavaria lived from 1401 to 1436 which is in the 15th century.
17. The Lie Bank. This is where fishermen told each other tall tales.
18. Nothing happened here in 1832.
19. You see the house of Doctor Tinus.
20. The poem on the black barn is about sledding from the rampart to the wall of the church.
21. Mill Nooit Gedagt has eight sides.
22. Sheep graze on the city wall.

23. A lot of salmon were caught and traded here.
24. The cannon was built in 1818. What year is it now? Subtract 1818 and you have the correct answer!
25. Jan Claessen was trumpeter is the army of Prince Maurice.
26. The tower's nickname is: the Mustard Pot.
27. Spieringstraat is named after a fish: the smelt.
28. Speaking is silver, silence is gold.

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