On my main website I wrote a text about a figurine on the Stephansdom in Vienna/Wien, Austria, that Farwerck has published images of in three books. None of these images appear to be very factual. Continue reading here: Stephansdom figure – Gangleri – articles
A fellow Farwerck enthousiast found a note in a copy of Het Teken van Dood en Herleving: Is this a note of Farwerck to a buyer of his book or is it a note of the buyer of the book him-/herself? Based on the examples of his handwriting on this website the fellow enthousiast thinks that this is Farwerck’s handwriting. Farwerck only made a less ‘autograph-like’ F for his name. I was not immediately convinced, but I think he’s right. I have some examples of Farwerck’s handwriting. Unfortunately, I found no F in regular writing, like the capital of a word in a sentence. I do have one example of him just writing his name, not signing with an autograph. That is still a pretty fancy F. I did find an example of handwriting that is quite similar to the example in the book, unfortunately in bad quality: Too bad it’s not too clear, but this looks quite like the first image, doesn’t it? It’s actually below a hand written letter, but the complete signing looks like this: Is “J.L. Tates” the author of the letter? Could this same person be the one who made the note in Farwerck’s book?… Read More »Handwriting question
Apparently there is not just a market for (old) postage stamps, but even for old envelops without content. I didn’t find it myself, but on Ebay (1) appeared an envelop addressed to Farwerck.
Read More »Addressed to FEFEarlier I mentioned that on another website, somebody is translating texts, some of Farwerck among them. In February 2025 the text was “The Secrets of the Building Lodges“, which I have translated myself as well.
Somebody who goes by the X/Twitter name “Hameçon ᛟ” is translating texts by Farwerck to English on his blog “Dutch Folklore”. So far there there the following texts: Both are from the Nehalennia periodical, respectively 1-3 and 1-4, both from 1956. Hence, two more texts to read for those of you who can’t read Dutch.
A grandson of Weisz found a photo of his grandfather. Based on the licence plate, he found out that the car was Franz’. It is not Franz in the back, but perhaps Willy and Johanna. Or -of course- Franz lent out his car to other acquaintences. The photo suggests that Weisz was Farwerck’s driver. In that case he was probably employed before Willem Viereke, so at least well before the start of World War II. There is some information about Weisz. He has several namesakes, which doesn’t make investigation easy. One of these namesakes appears to have moved to Argentina and passed away there. This would be another Simon Weisz. The Simon Weisz from the photo was born on in Budapest op 28 May 1889 and passed away in Amsterdam in 18 October 1980. Weisz married Elisabeth Csoma (1/1/10-?) on 21 November 1945. He had four children from a previous marriage. According to the grandson, Weisz was a Jew and moved to the Netherlands around 1920. It appears that he first lived in Wien/Vienna and he was one of more Hungarian Jews who moved to Wien and later the Netherlands to escape national socialism. In another source we find the… Read More »Simon Weisz (1889-1981)
Somebody else was digging into his family history and found a photo of his grandfather as a driver. The licence plate led him to Farwerck, found this website and he contacted me. Thanks to historic archives, we therefor have a photo of Farwerck’s car! The number on the left is “5484”. The image comes from the archives of South Holland, which -at the time- had licence plates starting with a G. Great find! The registration was made on 9 September 1914. At the time, a license plate was registered, not a car, so Farwerck kept his plate when he bought other cars. The car can’t be from 1914. It appears to be a Mercedes Benz Typ Nürburg Cabriolet D (W08) (1) A model which has been produced between 1928 and 1934. Or perhaps a somewhat earlier model: It must have been huge and expensive car when I see what models Mercedes had in these days. For some reason the address has been edited from Emmastraat 58 to 60. All the way to the right it seems to say: “duplicate 29/6-’49”. Perhaps that refers to the initial registration of Franz’ first car. I haven’t been able to find that record. The… Read More »Farwerck’s car
Earlier this week my eye fell on something (or so I thought) which made me have an extra look at the subject of the church tower of Vries, about which Farwerck wrote in Nehalennia III-3 (1958).
Vries is a small village in the North of Drenthe, a province in the North of the Netherlands. There is a 12th century Romanesque nowadays Protestant church in the village, dedicated to Saint Boniface. It was enlarged in the 15th century and has been under restauration between 1946 and 1949 according to Wikipedia.
Read More »The Church Tower of VriesAfter his political and Masonic careers were over and he was no longer a “Rotarian“, Farwerck did not sit still. He kept lecturing until very late in his life. Since some of these lectures were announced in newspapers, I can give you an idea what he lectured about and when. It appears that after World War II he found ‘new’ homes in an archaeological and a genealogical group (or at least, he wasn’t thrown out of them).
Every once in a while I check if new information has become available. I ran into two newspaper articles that give a somewhat new twist to the story how Farwerck has lost his house. The local government seems to have obtained the house for road reconstructions that never took place. One of the articles has a photo suggesting it was taken in front of Emmastraat 58, but I’m not sure it is.