City of Eindhoven

Eindhoven An English brochure about the city of Eindhoven as a schoolproject for English language lessons. This brochure is meant for foreigners (children and adults) who are not familiar in Eindhoven, because they are on vacation here or because they are going to live here. Contents page 1. Introduction ….………………………………….. 3 2. History ……..………………………………. 4 3. Art ………………..……………………………. 4 4. Recreation
a. Sports …………………………………………. 5
b. Restaurants …………………………………. 6 5. Shopping …………….……………………….. 7 6. Land of good living ………..…………………….. 8 7. Industry …………….……………………….. 8 8. Schools …………….……………………….. 9 9. Transportation ……………………………… 9 1. Introduction Eindhoven is not a very old city. But it has a warm country hart in the middle, with 200.000 houses it is the 5th largest city in the Netherlands. Southeast Brabant has changed fast from an agricultural area to an industrial region with technology in a leading role. That’s something you can see by the factories of the twenties and thirties who are terraced alongside modern office buildings. But the City of Light – with a wink to the old Philips light bulb factory – which is very important to the city isn’t looks like sobriety it is. The city centre is easy and lively. It’s comfortable living in Eindhoven. The great facilities the houses are spread so you can have your own space. Eindhoven is immediately surrounded by bushes, trees and heath fields.
2. The History of Eindhoven Eindhoven became a city in 1232. The little town was destroyed several times. In the Middle Ages the city stayed small until the second half of the 19th century. In 1874 Woensel and Tongelre became a part of Eindhoven. In 1891 Philips started the lightbulb industry in Eindhoven. This change meant a lot for the city. In 1920 the towns Woensel, Strijp, Gestel, Stratum and Tongelre became “Groot Eindhoven”. In 1942, 1943 and 1944 the city had a lot of damage by bombs. After World War II the completely destroyed centre of the city was built up again. Big buildings came which were all completely modern. Almost all of the old beautiful buildings were destroyed. This is why there are a lot of fairly new buildings in Eindhoven. The station, the Diaconessenhuis, which is a hospital and the headquarters of Philips are all fairly new buildings. Eindhoven is now one of the most modern big industry cities in the Netherlands. 3. Art The ‘van Abbe museum’ enjoys world fame in the field of modern art. The 2 faces of Eindhoven the business and the Brabant side are evident in the Daf and the Kempenland museums. The Frits Philips music centre home of the Brabant Orchestra, the city theatre film and theatre house Plaza Futura and many smaller stages like galleries and movie houses ensure a wide suply of culture. Eindhoven has also an open air museum the ‘prehistorisch dorp’. It’s a project you can call it expirimental argeology. You have a good sight at how people survived in the prehistory. If you like you can go on a prehistorical canoe trip. Everything you would like to know about the prehistory you can see there. If you want to know everything about the Kempen mere then thousands years ago, then you have to go to the Museum Kempenland. Art you can see in the ‘centrum voor de kunsten’. They have a wide assortiment of art, like dancing, music and of course art. Eindhoven has lots of art. 4. Recreation In Eindhoven we have lots of things to do for old and young 4.a. Sports The city is an international centre for events like in the area of sports the yearly marathon, show jumping competition and top events in the indoor sports centre The p.s.v. [philips sports club] plays at european level. Swimming
In Eindhoven we have alot of recreation swimming pools, sportcentres and loads more. The probably most
popular swimming pool in Eindhoven is the Tongelreep. It’s near sportspark Aalsterweg. The Tongelreep has
5 slides an outside and an inside pool. It’s really lots of

fun to swim there. Also we have the Ir. Ottenbad. That is also a pool which is a major attraction. It’s only not as big as the Tongelreep but also has an inside and an outside. Another pool is an outside pool, the “IJzeren man” and it’s open in the summer of course. Indoor sports
There are a number of indoor halls where various sports are played by young and old, like: tennis; soccer; hockey; basketball; fencing; fighting sports; volleyball, badminton, etc. Skating: In Eindhoven we have four skating rinks, three for ice skating and one for rollerskating. The ice skating ring has an inside and and two outside rinks. One of the outside rinks is for ice hockey and the other one is for skating circles. You can rent your iceskates there (touringskates or icehockeyskates). At the roller skating ring there is only an inside ring. There are obstickels there too, like fun jumps and there is music. Sportclubs: In the Netherlands people join a club for a specific sport, like
hockey : E.M.H.C. (which is the best hockeyclub because the authors of this brochure play there), O.Z., Tegenbosch and Racing. soccer. P.S.V., R.P.C., R.K.S.V. Woensel, Woenselse Boys, D.V.S., Gestelse Boys, het Groenewoud, Rust Roest , Tivoli and V.V.S. tennis: E.L.T.V., T.H.E.S., Prinsenjacht, P.S.V. Tegenbosch, T.V. Bokt, A.S.V., E.S.T.V. Fellenoord, Actief, skating the skating club at the Ice rink
basketball B.C. Eindhoven, E.B.C. – P.S.V. Almonte, E.R.B. athletics Olympia, Asterix and P.S.V. batminton B.C. Lievendaal, B.C. Tongelre, de Raap, E.S.B.V. Panache
golf Eindhovensche Golf, Golf and Country club the Tongelreep, bowling N.B.F. and E.B.B. cricket P.S.V. cricket
handball D.V.C., E.H.V., E.M.Z, P.S.V. softball P.S.V. baseball/softball, E.S.H.V. the Studs. canoing Nautilus, R.K.J.K.V. de Slappe Peddel and de Volmolense Canoclub
fighting E.S.B.V. Samouris, Karate Shotokan Eindhoven and Taekwondo Kawarmala
fencing E.S.S.V. Hocabet and P.S.V. biljards Augustinus, de Krukken, Prinsejagt. checkers Damclub Mensfort, P.S.V. Dammen
chess Daf, Tivoli and de Twee Koningen. swimming the Tongelreep,the Ottenbad and the Ijzerenman
If you need more information on any of these sports you can always contact the Municipal authorities. 4.b. Restaurants In Eindhoven you can eat all kinds of things from various different countries. You can eat in cheap or luxurious restaurants in Eindhoven. There are restaurants with Italian food, Chinese, Mexican, Indian, and typically Dutch like asparagus or boeren kool with worst. There are fish restaurants and meat restaurants also vegetarian restaurants and not to forget the various cafes and snackbars where you can eat chips or frikadellen. In the gouden gids (golden pages of the telephone directory) you can find pages filled with all these restaurants you can make reservations if you like. 5. Shopping In the centre is a wide assortment of cafes, restaurants with a variety of cuisines from every corner of the earth. As well a casino offer plenty of opportunities to have a day out just teh right way. In short shopping is fun in Eindhoven. We also have the Heuvel Galerie, which is a big mall with all kinds of stores and boutiques. After a long day of shopping and sightseeingen you can have a drink or eat something in one of the many restaurants. The real night life in Eindhoven is on the Stratumseind, a long street with many bars. If you like to party you can go to the “Dans Salon” or a disco. The largest store in the centre is “de Bijenkorf: it has lots of different articles. When you are going to shop for food you can go to the typical Dutch foodstore “Albert Hein”. You can also shop in the open air on the weekly market on Tuesdays in the centre. You can buy all kind of articles on this market like fish, vegetables, flowers, clothes etc. The biggest advantage is that the market is very cheap.
6. Land of good living The youthful appearance belies the fact that Eindhoven is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands. But when there was a war, plundering or fires the city lost a little bit of its original sight. The most of old Eindhoven is built around 1900. The centre had in the World War II lots of damage. Forest heath and fields ensure the typical Brabantse Groen. The land where people can enjoy of the good living. An centuries old tradition generous hospitality. 7. Industry Eindhoven is an industrial city. From here a lot of high tech products are shipped and flown away to many different countries around the world. Except big companies like Philips with its lightbulbs and chips and Daf with its cars and trucks Eindhoven has dozens of engineering smaller companies and firms like: Melkunie, Campina, Mc Donalds, and lots and lots more. Eindhoven is the biggest city in southeast Brabant and the fifth city in the Netherlands. Eindhoven has direct on and off ramps to internet. 8. Schools If you are going to live in Eindhoven, you have to have some information about the schools. In total Eindhoven counts 56 primary schools,13 secondary schools, 17 for special education, 25 high schools and one technical university. And we have 1 international primary school and 1 international secondery school. At both of these last schools you can have Dutch and English education whitch is really nice for your kids because they can have English schooling but they get Dutch lessons 3 times a week. Primary schools: e.g. the van Eupen school, the Bijenkorf, the Zonnewijzer
Secondery schools: e.g. the Lorentz Casimir Lyceum, the van Maerlandt, the
Augustinianum, the Aloysius, the Eckart college, the bisschop Bekkers college, the Christiaan Huygens college, the Sint Joris, the Penta college, the Kempenpoort, the Burgh, The Stedelijk college, I.S.S.E.(which is the international secondery school) Special education: e.g. the Petra school, the Beemden, the Ekkersbeek, the Horst, the Wingerd, The Schoothorst, the mgr. Bekkersschool, the Herman broerenschool, theSint Jozef
School, the three Koningenschool, the Antoon Schellens, the Mytleschool

Higher education: the Fontys highschools, the R.O.C. Eindhoven University. 9. Transportation If you don’t have a car you have to have other transportation. In Eindhoven we have buses, trains, taxi’s and of course airplanes. From Eindhoven airport everyday planes depart from here to all over Europe. If you would rather take a train or bus you should go to the railwaystation which is near the centre of the city. From there you take a train to anywere in Europe. For the train times and information about the buses you can call 0900-9292. From the station also buses take off to anywere in Eindhoven . If you don’t have transportation to the station you can wait at a busstop nearby you . We also have of course taxi’s. The telephone number for a cab is 25252525. You call them and say that you want a taxi at what time and where and they will come with a taxi to pick you up. But what probably is the most important way of transportation is the bicycle. Almost all of the kids on the secondairy schools in Eindhoven bike to school. In and around Eindhoven there are bike routes where you can bike for fun or to go somewere.