Prince Henry Boarding School

The Prins Hendrik Boarding School is a boarding school for skippers' and children's children, located in Vreeswijk, Nieuwegein. Opened in 1915, it is the oldest skipper boarding school in the Netherlands.

On January 23, 1911, the Protestant church in Vreeswijk founded an association. This association was called De Vereeniging tot stichting en behoud van een school met den Bible voor Schipperskinderen. This association wanted to ensure that children of barge captains could go to a school where they could receive a good education and were raised in Christian Protestant terms. In 1913 the association bought a piece of land in Vreeswijk. Because the bargee children could not just go home, a boarding school had to be set up for these children. This led to the decision to build a boarding school and a school for these children. The architect M.E. Kuiler made the design.

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