Moriaanshoofd
The former village centre of Wormer is home to café "Op de Hoecke van de Kerckstraet," which was once established as an inn by Sijmen Moerjaen in 1585. He called it "Moerjaenshooft," and his family crest, with the head of a Moerjaan, still adorns the facade. Behind the bar in the front café is a wooden statue of a Moerjaen's head, made by ir J. Wassink from Jisp.
Game lovers can enjoy various old Dutch games here, including shuffleboard, hole billiards, wheel boat, and skittles. The attached golf course, the only one in the Zaan region, dates back to the 18th century and probably started as an open outdoor course. A place where history and fun come together!
Besides numerous proprietors through the centuries ...
The former village centre of Wormer is home to café "Op de Hoecke van de Kerckstraet," which was once established as an inn by Sijmen Moerjaen in 1585. He called it "Moerjaenshooft," and his family crest, with the head of a Moerjaan, still adorns the facade. Behind the bar in the front café is a wooden statue of a Moerjaen's head, made by ir J. Wassink from Jisp.
Game lovers can enjoy various old Dutch games here, including shuffleboard, hole billiards, wheel boat, and skittles. The attached golf course, the only one in the Zaan region, dates back to the 18th century and probably started as an open outdoor course. A place where history and fun come together!
Besides numerous proprietors over the centuries, it was also owned by the Wormser family, yeast brewers in this area between 1675 and 1717. Yeast was used in beer brewing; in those years, yeast served mainly for the dough of the then popular food for the common man: bread. Gas was a pipe baked ship's rusk, called 'weebaeck'; two rusks together. In its heyday, the ship's people on the Zaan counted thousands of men who supplemented their 'weebaeck' with a swig of gin, with the ship's people also taking services at the inn.
't Moriaanshoofd met that demand and served as a room for important meetings related to shipping and related activities. Besides being a meeting centre, the pub served as a meeting place for the skippers of the Wormer, Jisp and Neck districts.
Image- Nander de Wijk
