Rotterdam buildering
1983 - 2003

 

H e t S t e i g e r

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Peter Mosch
Object	church tower
Height	45 m
Date	19.05.1983
Trivia	Van der Meulen congregated ('involuntarily!') in this church until age 18. At age 8, Van der Meulen was caught climbing Het Steiger and taken to the police station in a Chevrolet C10 police van, the same model he was taken in in 1983, for climbing the PTT office. Clip is taken from the Erasmus University news bulletin 'Euro oh Visie' V I D E O >>

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P T T B l a a k

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Peter Mosch
Object	PTT office on Blaak
Height / Discipline	45 m / Jumar
Date	06.08.1983
Trivia	First belay was fixed 3 meters over the lean-to. Unfortunately, the rope dropped to the ground, and was picked up by policemen. Halfway up, the climbers were thus forced to give up. Van der Meulen disappears of the stage in the same police van as the one he was taken in for climbing Het Steiger at age 8: the Chevrolet C10 Filmed in super 8 mm V I D E O >>

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E u r o m a s t

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Peter Mosch
Object	Euromast
Height	100 m
Date	30.04.1984
Trivia	For ineffable reasons, the climbers wore roller skates during the abseil Filmed in super 8 mm V I D E O >>

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V a n B r i e n e n o o r d /

W i l l e m s b r u g

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Peter Mosch
Object	two bridges
Height	20 m and 45 m
Date	07.06.1986
Trivia	dubbed by the participants as an 'unpractised quintalon' in the disciplines of cycling, abeseiling, diving, rollerskating, climbing (and concluded with a dual abseil) V I D E O >>

 

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N a t i o n a l e N e d e r l a n d e n

Climber	Jan van der Meulen
Object	hoisting crane
Height / discipline	170 m / abseil
Date	10.02.1990
Trivia	Due to the wind, temperatures in the top felt like -15 o C As Van der Meulen is in full swing, a policeman orders through the megaphone: "Will you come down immediately!" Upon landing Jan's 200 meter long rope ends up in three pieces. In the top a manager cut it off, on the ground an impatient cop cuts it before Jan unties himself V I D E O >>

 

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P Z E M

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Ko Hoepen
Object	chimney
Height	125 m
Date	12.04.1990
Trivia	New age artificial climb, for its use of a drill Ko Hoepen was a client of Van der Meulen's climbing school CRACK; the PZEM chimney his first buildering object V I D E O >>

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N e d l l o y d

Climbers	Jan van der Meulen, Joost Bomhof
Object	Office building
Height	90 m
Date	30.04.1998
Trivia	20 meters up, Van der Meulen dropped 4 meters before being secured by a 'CAM A LOT' (an expanding nut placed in a vertical crack). the climb to the top took 6 hours V I D E O >>

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H o g e H e r e n

Climber	Jan van der Meulen
Object	Apartment
Height / discipline	102 m / Free rope solo
Date	26.04.2001
Trivia	Completed in a one pitch climb of 100 meters For the first time in Dutch buildering history, Van der Meulen was fined by the police. In court however, the judge decided the fine was unnecessary, thereby paving the road to future buildering actions. News feature by RNW Photos here V I D E O >>

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K P N o f f i c e

Climber	Jan van der Meulen
Object	Head office
Height / discipline	110 m / Abseil
Date	22.12.2003
Trivia	Filmed by 7 camcorders the legal aftermath on Radio Rijnmond and R'dams Dagblad V I D E O >>

link: Jan van der Meulen buildering

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