Neude
Historic central square of café terraces and a grand former post office, once a site of executions.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Neude in Utrecht goes back to the summer of fifteen sixty-two, when a tailor named Hendrik Eemkens was arrested and brought before a court for his Anabaptist faith. It explains who the Anabaptists were and why their way of baptising made them criminals in the sixteenth-century Low Countries. Along the way you'll hear about the engravings that preserved the scene long afterwards. Best heard standing on the square itself, with your eyes on the paving stones.
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