Why do we say ‘on’ Scheveningen, where do the colored poles under the Pier come from and who is the ‘Mosselman’? Curious about the answers to these and more special questions about Scheveningen? Then read on quickly.
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That’s why we say ‘on’ Scheveningen and not ‘in’
In the Dutch language we use names of places and neighborhoods ‘ in’ as a preposition. You are in The Hague and in the center. But why then do we say óp Scheveningen and sometimes also óp Kijkduin? Language experts of Onzetaal: ‘Op was often used as a preposition for places, neighborhoods or regions that were originally higher than the surrounding land.’
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That’s why laugh The Japanese are hard on the name Scheveningen
Have you ever told a Japanese person that you come from Scheveningen? He/she was probably laughing really hard at the time. Not because our seaside resort is so comical, but the meaning of the name.
“As soon as a Japanese hears that there is a seaside resort with the name Scheveningen, they think it is a nudist beach ”, says Kazuko Suzuki in an article from the AD. ‘Hi, I’m from Scheveningen’, is freely translated into Japanese: ‘Hi, I’m from pervert’. Because for the Japanese the word Scheveningen sounds more like sukebeningen and Sukebe (スケベ) means a naughty or lewd person or a pervert.
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Therefore the poles under De Pier colored
Since 2016 the posts under De Pier are not dull white but coloured. From pimple purple to canary yellow, all colors pass by. The colored poles in Scheveningen were a gift from paint company AkzoNobel. The employees have painted the posts because in 1963 the company became the new main sponsor of the Dutch participants of the Volvo Ocean Race.
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That’s why Bulgarians laugh loudly at the name Kurhaus
‘Next stop, next stop. Kurhaus’. For a native of The Hague this is a normal sentence, but an observant Bulgarian will laugh. Not only because he is happy that he is finally at the beach, but especially because of the name ‘Kurhaus’. In Bulgarian, Kur (кур) means dick, and a hotel called Lulhuis can evoke very special associations.
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We all know the nursery rhyme ‘Say do you know the musselman (who comes from Scheveningen)’. That there is a mussel man in Scheveningen is actually quite strange. Because there is no fishing for mussels at Scheveningen!
It has something to do with the English version of the song: there is also an English text on the same melody: ‘Do you know the muffin man’. That’s no sweetheart because he lures women to eat them and children to make muffins. Muffin also means vagina in English and mussels can also stand for that. The muffin man in the English song is a bad / dirty man. The Dutch mussel man stands for someone who sells women, so a pimp. Why then from Scheveningen? That probably has to do with the prison.
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That’s why this beach entrance is called the Black Path
Streets are often named after important people from the past or it is the route to, for example, Scheveningen such as the Scheveningseweg. But with the Black Path that is a different story.
The path became after 1918, in the context of combating unemployment. It was an unpaved walking path that ran to the border with Wassenaar.
Some sources tell us that even before that the path was worked on by interned soldiers. Furthermore, a lookout point was made on a dune.
The hiking trail was only given in 1963 the official name, simply because the cinders (burned out coal) of it path were black. The same reasoning applies to the Zwarteweg in the Uilebanden district. Not an exciting story, but we did find an answer.
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Mystery solved: where are the fireworks of the canceled New Year’s show?
At the Hofvijver would finally be another nice countdown moment with a beautiful fireworks show. Organizer Peter Boelhouwer, Municipality of The Hague…
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