Editing Delft (section)

===Explosion===
[[File:Delftsedonderslag.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Egbert van der Poel]]: ''A View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654'']]
[[File:Kruithuis.jpg|thumb|The "new" gunpowder store "Kruithuis", built in 1660 on the water of the [[Delftse Schie]] for public safety, today in use as a clubhouse]]
{{see also|:nl:Delftse donderslag|:de:Delfter Donnerschlag}}
The Delft Explosion, also known in history as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred on 12 October 1654<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.radionetherlandsarchives.org/the-day-the-world-came-to-an-end-the-great-delft-thunderclap-of-1654/ |title=The Day the World Came to an End: the Great Delft Thunderclap of 1654 |date=14 October 2004 |publisher=Radio Netherlands }}</ref> when a [[gunpowder]] store exploded, destroying much of the city. More than a hundred were killed and thousands were injured.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cumming |first=Laura |year=2023 |title= Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death |location=New York |publisher=Scribner  |isbn=978-1-9821-8174-1 }}</ref>

About {{cvt|30|t|1|lk=on}} of gunpowder were stored in [[Barrel (storage)|barrels]] in a [[Magazine (artillery)|magazine]] in a former [[Order of Poor Ladies|Clarist]] [[convent]] in the Doelenkwartier district, where the Paardenmarkt is now located. Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Fortunately, many citizens were away, visiting a market in [[Schiedam]] or a fair in [[The Hague]].

Today, the explosion is primarily remembered for killing [[Rembrandt]]'s most promising pupil, [[Carel Fabritius]], and destroying nearly all his works.

Delft artist [[Egbert van der Poel]] painted several pictures of Delft showing the devastation.

The gunpowder store (Dutch: Kruithuis) was subsequently re-housed, a 'cannonball's distance away', outside the city, in a new building designed by architect [[Pieter Post]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Historie: Het Kruithuis |language=nl |publisher=Scoutcentrum Delft |url=https://www.scoutcentrumdelft.nl/historie }}</ref>