Walking in Hertogenbosch Netherlands 🇳🇱4K & St. John's Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch)

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The city's official name is a contraction of the (archaic) Dutch des Hertogen bosch [dɛs ˈɦɛrtoːɣə(m) ˈbɔs] - "the forest of the duke". The duke in question was Henry I of Brabant, whose family had owned a large estate at nearby Orthen for at least four centuries. He founded a new town located on some forested dunes in the middle of a marsh. At age 26, he granted 's-Hertogenbosch city rights and the corresponding trade privileges in 1185. This is, however, the traditional date given by later chroniclers; the first mention in contemporaneous sources is 1196. The original charter has been lost. His reason for founding the city was to protect his own interests against encroachment from Gelre and Holland; from its first days, he conceived of the city as a fortress. It was destroyed in 1203 in a joint expedition of Gelre and Holland, but was soon rebuilt. Some remnants of the original city walls remain.

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It is Sint Jan Cathedral. You cannot translate a name. When your American name is John, you are not a Jan in the Netherlands or a Jean in France. You stay a John. Same with Jan. Pretty disrespectful to make everything American.