Historica Cock Gorisse from Oosterhout died on Thursday at the age of 81. Her family announced that. Gorisse was an advocate for history, heritage and culture in its city. “She was very special for Oosterhout.”
Gorissse played a key role in many organizations. For example, she founded the De Heilige Driehoek foundation. A foundation that is committed to the preservation and development of the historical area. She managed to turn the area into a government -protected cityscape with monasteries.
“She was very special for Oosterhout,” Arjan Pelders looks back, who succeeded her in January as chairman of the foundation. “She was a single woman with great intelligence, but without any fuss. She was small in piece, but big in heart.”
As a historian, Gorisse did a lot of historical research into Oosterhout and the Holy Triangle in her life. She wrote no fewer than 47 books about Oosterhout, the Amphia Hospital and Tilburg. If you call the name Gorisse on the street, almost everyone you are talking about knows.
“Oosterhout loses a beautiful life -loving, connecting, dear Kanjer.”
Pelders is still full of the death of her, he says. “It was wonderful to have known this person, she was very cordial and accessible, sometimes a bit of people. I only have warm memories of her.”
There is a lot of response to her death report on social media. “Oosterhout loses a beautiful life -loving, connecting, dear Kanjer,” writes Els. “Unexpected and still full in life,” Hannie responds under a message from Oosterhout today.
In 2009 one of the most important works from the Oeuvre of the Oosterhoutse was published. Together with a team of eight historians, she brought the history of Oosterhout and surroundings to life in a richly illustrated book of about four kilos and more than six hundred pages. From Oosterhout in the primal to this century.
“The feeling of coming home is now falling away.”
Her knowledge about Oosterhout history could not be read alone. Gorisse also taught the rich past of the city at the Oosterhout Academy and gave them countless lectures.
De Oosterhoutse was also on the founding of the Art in the Holy Triangle, the initiator of the well -known H3H Biennales. She received several awards for her efforts, such as Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.
With the Holy Triangle, Arjan Pelders, together with other members of the foundation, met a lot at the kitchen table at Cock. “That really gave us the feeling of coming home. That is now falling away.”
In January this year, after 25 years, Gorisse said goodbye to the leadership of the foundations. She received the mayor of Oosterhout the honorary pin in gold. The active Gorisse said at the time that she still had many great plans. But time caught up with her. Oosterhout has to say goodbye to an enthusiastic person.