Zeist
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Template:Infobox Dutch municipality 3 Zeist is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands, located east of the city of Utrecht.
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The town of Zeist
The town of "Seist" was first mentioned in a charter in the year 838. The original settlement was located at the present Dorpsstraat. In the late 12th century, a church was built here. Its tower is now a part of the Reformed Church, the remainder of which was built in the 19th century. Until medieval times, a branch of the river Rhine flowed close to the centre of the town. Three mansions were built near the village: the Huis te Zeist, Kersbergen, and Blikkenburg.
From 1677 to 1686, the "Slot Zeist" was built on or near the ruins of "Kasteel Zeist", the original castle (donjon) of Rodgar van Zeist. There is very little documentation on the family that lived there, but a few names are found: in the 12th century a Godefridus de Seist and in the late 13th century another Godefridus, a knight, with his son Johannes and his daughter Petronilla. (Bronnen voor de geschiedenis van Zeist, deel 1, ed. Van Hinsbergen.)
In the 14th century the last member of the van Zeist family was a woman, Elisabeth (?), who married a member of the Borre van Amerongen family. They had a son who adopted his mothers name and his fathers coat-of-arms. (JvZ)
Members of the Evangelical Brotherhood, the Dutch name for the Moravians, settled in Slot Zeist in 1746, and their headquarters are still located in the centre of town, next to "the castle". The oldest Dutch archives of the Moravians are kept at the Utrecht Archival Centre at Utrecht.
In the 19th century, Zeist became a favorite residence for the rich, mainly from the city of Utrecht.
Zeist is the location of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) and also known for the forests surrounding the town. For many years the Dutch National Archaeological Research Service (Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek) was housed at Kasteel Zeist.
People from Zeist
The following famous people were born in Zeist:
- Willem Pijper, composer (1894-1947).
- Hendrik Marsman, poet and writer (1899-1940).
- I.A. Diepenhorst, former minister of education, born in 1916.
- Bert Blyleven, former Major League Baseball pitcher, born in 1951, emigrated to California as a child.
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