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ir. C.J. van DoornIr. Cornelis Johannes van DoornHall 1837 - Amsterdam 1906 had de leiding over de aanleg van de belangrijke Asaka-waterwerken bij de Japanse stad Koriyama (1879-'82) |
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Zwart-marmeren plaat met daarin de afbeeldingen van het standbeeld in Koriyama.
Sinds 27 juni 1988 hebben de gemeenten Brummen en Koriyama een officiële vriendschapsband.
Het herdenkingsteken werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Watts Industries Europe. Het is onthuld 25 september 2001.
Informatie van de Japanse website:
Van Doorn was invited by the Japanese government in 1872 and undertook the teaching of port construction and river improvement. He left his name by his distinguished services of irrigating the Aska Plain, a barren land at that time, with the water from the Lake Inawashiro. He utilized the natural drop of the land and successfully led water for 52 kilometers. His achievement became a foundation of the development of present day Koriyama.
Local people erected his bronze statue by the lock gate at Jurokkyo Bridge praising his efforts. There are interesting anecdotes concerning the statue. One is that since Holland and Japan were hostile during the world war, the local people hid the bronze statue secretly in the mountain against the supply order of the government which required offering of metal products for military use. Another is later in the period in June 1979 the city of Koriyama set up Van Doorn's tombstone in Amsterdam. An elementary teacher visited Holland and found his grave with nobody to attend it. Hearing this, Koriyama City raised 28 million yen and held a large-scale memorial service for the repose of the spirit of the engineer, and erected a grand tombstone.
Greatly impressed by the fact that there was a citizen who had contributed to the development of Japan, the mayor in Holland named a newly constructed road Van Doorn Street after him.
De laatste opmerking slaat vermoedelijk op de C.J. van Doornstraat in Hall.
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