Editing Kampen, Overijssel (section)

== Culture ==

=== Historical buildings and other landmarks ===
Kampen has a large number of old to very old buildings, including remains of the ancient city wall (whose city gates are still standing) and the Church of St Nicholas ([[Bovenkerk, Kampen|Bovenkerk]]). The structure of the walled fortress city is still visible in the streets.

Significant structures include:
* The ''[[Koornmarktpoort]]'': a city gate located near the river IJssel which probably dates from the 14th century. In the 15th century two squat towers were added at the outer corners.
* The ''Broederpoort'': a rectangular city gate with four slender towers, originally from 1465, rebuilt in Renaissance style in 1615
* The ''Cellebroederspoort'': a rectangular city gate, flanked by two heavy round towers, originally from 1465, rebuilt in 1617 in Renaissance style
* The [[Stedelijk Museum Kampen]]: located in the former town hall of Kampen, which dates from the late 14th century
* The ''Gotisch huis'': built around 1500. This was the location of the Stedelijk Museum Kampen before it moved to its current location in the old town hall.
* The ''[[Nieuwe Toren, Kampen|Nieuwe Toren]]'': a tower with a carillon designed by Philips Vingboons and dating from 1648 to 1664
* The Church of St. Nicholas (''[[Bovenkerk, Kampen|Bovenkerk]]''): a great Gothic basilica dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. The interior of the church houses an early-Renaissance choir screen (1552), a stone pulpit (circa 1500) and a monumental organ from 1670 to 1676.
* The ''Broederkerk'': a 14th-century church which originally belonged to a Franciscan monastery
* The ''Buitenkerk'': a 14th-century church
* The ''Burgwalkerk'': a neoclassical 19th-century church
* A windmill called ''d'Olde Zwarver'', built in 1842
* A monastery gate dating from 1665 called ''Linnenweverspoortje''
* The city auditorium (''Stadsgehoorzaal''), dating from 1891
* An old tobacco factory, ''De Olifant'', where cigars are still made with 19th-century equipment. ''De Olifant'' cigars are sold in the shop and guided tours are available.

Throughout the town of Kampen, there are colorful murals which are in fact old commercials for now-defunct business in Kampen. These murals, which include Art Nouveau influences, were made by local artists and are now referred to as "frescoes of the middle class". As a result of current municipal policy, wherever these murals are discovered under old plaster, they are restored to their former glory.

A number of better or lesser known people with a certain connection with Kampen is honoured with a commemorative stone bearing their name and a single-sentence characterization of their personality or achievements, incorporated into the pavement of the ''Oude Raadhuisplein'' (formerly ''Koeplein''), the square in between the old town hall, the former Post Office and ''Nieuwe Toren''.

=== Gallery ===
<gallery widths="200" perrow="4">
File:Cellebroederspoort Kampen.jpg|Cellebroederspoort in Kampen
File:De voorgevel en linker zijgevel van de voormalige synagoge te Kampen - Kampen - 20350358 - RCE.jpg|Former synagogue in Kampen
File:Kampen stadhuis.jpg|Former town hall
File:Kampen, De Nieuwe Toren RM23186 poging2 foto9 2016-02-17 12.37.jpg|New Tower (''Nieuwe Toren'')
File:Bovenkerk Kampen toren.jpg|Church: Bovenkerk
File:Kampen, de Kalverhekkenbrug en de Buitenkerk foto2 2016-02-17 13.13.jpg|Bridge (Kalverhekkenbrug) and church (Buitenkerk)
File:Kampen, de Lutherse kerk RM23024 foto5 2016-02-17 13.04.jpg|Reformed church
File:2007-04-23 14.14 Kampen, theologische universiteit.JPG|{{ill|Protestant Theological University Kampen|Protestantse Theologische Universiteit vestiging Kampen}} 
File:20080520 d' Olde Zwarver Kampen NL.jpg|Windmill: d' Olde Zwarver
File:Kampenkmpoortklein.jpg|Towngate: Korenmarktpoort
File:Kampen, de Stadsbrug foto10 2016-02-17 10.35.jpg|Bridge: Stadsbrug
File:Kampen, schip langs de IJsselkade foto5 2016-02-17 10.50.jpg|Ship at the IJsselkade
File:Kampen, kantoorgebouw ABN Amrobank aan de IJsselkade foto7 2016-02-17 10.57.jpg|Office building of the [[ABN AMRO]] bank at the IJsselkade
File:Kampen, het Bevrijdingsmonument aan de De La Sablonairekade foto8 2016-05-17 11.29.jpg|Liberation memorial at the De La Sablonairekade
File:Onderdijksewaard7.jpg|The new Anabranch called {{ill|Reevediep|nl}}
File:Rietmoerassen bij Polder Dronthen, Kampen II.jpg|The westside of the island of Kampen, with marches going into the Drontermeer
</gallery>

=== Festivals and events ===
An annual festival during the summer months is the ''{{lang|nl|Kamper ui(t)}}'' day. The name is derived from a series of folk tales in which the inhabitants of Kampen were portrayed as stupid. Another summer event is the Full Color Festival, which is organized annually. Every third Saturday of August, a comics event, called the ''Kamper Stripspektakel'', is organized with over 100 booths.

Once every three years ''Sail Kampen'' takes place, a sailing spectacle with (old) sailing ships.

A weekend before Christmas ''Christmas in Oud Kampen'' is organized. There is street theater, where pieces of famous musicals are played, and mid-nineteenth-century characters are walking around the city.

===Sports===
Kampen is the home of football team [[Go Ahead Kampen]] and its rivals Dos Kampen, KHC Kampen, VV Kampen and IJVV.

===<span class="anchor" id="Sturgeon"></span>Humor===
[[File:20150909 Kamper steur.jpg|thumb|Kamper Sturgeon with a cowbell]]
The foolish wisdom of the residents of the Dutch city of Kampen gave rise to the term [[Kamper onion|"Kamper onion"]] (Kamper ui, plural: Kamper uien) for [[Town of fools|town-of-fools]] type stories, as well for the "Kampersteur" ("Kamper [[Sturgeon]]") dish, which is made not of sturgeon, but of eggs: to greet a visiting bishop the Kampers caught a large sturgeon, and to keep it fresh they tied a [[cowbell]] to it and let it back in water. When the bishop arrived, the fish was gone, and a dish made of eggs was served instead.<ref>Rudolf M. Dekker, ''Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=R2aADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA129 p.129]</ref> The "onion" in "Kamper onion" comes from the tale, variants of which are [[Stone Soup|known in various cultures]]: a tramp convinces a farmer and his wife that he knows how  to cook a nutritious stew from onion and salt. But while cooking he adds plenty of other stuff "to improve the taste".