Goor

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title: "Goor" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["municipalities-of-the-netherlands-disestablished-in-2001", "populated-places-in-overijssel", "former-municipalities-of-overijssel", "twente", "hof-van-twente"] topic_path: "geography/netherlands" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goor" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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image_skylineGoor, sculptuur van de geschiedenis van Goor IMG 5853 2020-05-31 18.15.jpg
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image_shieldGoor wapen.svg
image_flagGoor vlag.svg
pushpin_mapNetherlands Overijssel#Netherlands
pushpin_map_captionLocation in province of Overijssel in the Netherlands
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameNetherlands
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Overijssel
subdivision_type2Municipality
subdivision_name2Hof van Twente
elevation_footnotes
elevation_m12
area_footnotes
area_total_km219.49
population_footnotes
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population_as_of2021
population_density_km2auto
population_density_urban_km2auto
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postal_code_typePostal code
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| name = Goor | settlement_type = City | other_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image_skyline = Goor, sculptuur van de geschiedenis van Goor IMG 5853 2020-05-31 18.15.jpg | caption = Sculpture: the history of Goor | image_shield = Goor wapen.svg | image_flag = Goor vlag.svg | pushpin_map = Netherlands Overijssel#Netherlands | pushpin_map_caption = Location in province of Overijssel in the Netherlands | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Netherlands | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Overijssel | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = Hof van Twente | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_party = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 12 | elevation_min_m = | elevation_max_m = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 19.49 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | established_title = | established_date = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 12,155 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_demonym = | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_density_urban_km2 = auto | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 7471 | area_code_type = Dialing code | area_code = 0547 | coordinates = Goor () is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about 20 km west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263.

Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became part of Hof van Twente. Goor had a statue of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, but it was destroyed in 1787 by royalist Orangists in the defeat of the republican movement.

Jewish community

While records of individual Jews in Goor date back to the 14th century, the first permanent records of a Jewish community date to the 1600s when residence permits were issued to Jews.

The ** ('Jewish cemetery') of Goor on the Borghoek dates to 1720. The Jewish population expanded rapidly in the second half of the 18th century. In 1748, Goor had 13 Jewish residents; that number increased to 238 Jews by 1809. In 1821, the Jews of Goor joined with Jews living in the neighboring towns of Diepenheim and Markelo to build the Ringsynagoge ('regional synagogue').

The Jewish community thrived throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jews contributed to the economic development of Goor and the Twente region. The Jewish Lavino brothers set up a weaving school in Goor. Godfried Salomonson (1838–1911), a Jewish man, established the "Koninklijke Stoomweverij te Nijverdal" ('the Royal Nijverdal Steam Bleaching Works')Nijverdal means "industrious valley" in Dutch. in 1836 with the express purpose of serving as the center of the Dutch Industrial Revolution. In 1902, a new synagogue on Schoolstraat replaced the old Ringsynagoge.

During the Second World War, nearly the entire Jewish community was openly murdered or sent to concentration camps where they were killed. The synagogue was damaged in air raids, and pulled down after the war. The Jewish cemetery has a monument to the murdered Jews, and was named a national monument in 1970.

Transportation

Railway Station: Goor

Notable people from Goor

Notes

References

Gallery

Image:Hofkerk Goor.jpg|Goor, church: Hofkerk Image:Goor, Hofkerk in straatzicht foto2 2010-07-18 13.05.JPG|Goor, Hofkerk in the street Image:Goor, molen foto5 2010-07-18 13.24.JPG|Goor, windmill: Braakmolen

References

  1. (24 July 2019). "Postcodetool for 7471AA". Het Waterschapshuis.
  2. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021".
  3. {{Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten
  4. Goorsnieuws.nl d.d. 24 september 2009 [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927054520/http://www.goorsnieuws.nl/index.php/commentaar/34-algemeen/993-t-is-een-vreemdeling-zeker 't is een vreemdeling zeker,.....]
  5. “Godftied Salomomson,” ‘Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland:1880–2000’, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/salomonson
  6. (2001). "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J". NYU Press.
  7. "Goor".

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