[English version below]

Wat un entree fynst nyt? Om su Franeker binnen te kommen. Su onder de Doanjumerpoart deur. Pakhuzen links en rechts. En dêr om ‘e bocht ut Sakkedragershúske en de rest fan ‘e stad. Ja, hyr op ‘e Froonakker binne je op ut mooiste stukje Franeker. En ik gaan hyr un pakhús bouwen. Krekt as dy twee dêr ferderop. De ‘Twee Gebroeders’. Ja, dy graanhannel is un goeie ferdienste. Ik siën der wel broad in.

En dan noem ik dat pakhús: Poolshof. As dank naar ut folk út Poalen, want wij krije ut graan bij hun furt. Ut komt hyr fia de Oastzee. De Poalen hewwe al un skoft geen koaning mear. Dat is hun min naar de sin…. Maar krekt foarug jaar kregen se Stanislaus Poniatowski an ‘e macht. Dat had y te danken an syn fryndin Katarina de Groate fan Ruslân.

Se noeme um koaning August de derde fan Poalen en Litouwen. Un aparte sitewasy. Maar ut skynt dat hij ut goëd an ‘e gang het. Ut gaat dêr hartstikke goed met de wetenskap en de kultuer. We kinne dêr un foarbeeld an nimme. Poalshof is su’n gekke naam nòg nyt.

Tjeerd Sydses (1765)

What an entry, isn’t it? To enter Franeker this way. From under the Dongjum gate, warehouses left and right. And there, around the corner the Sakkedragerhúske and the city. Froonacker is the prettiest part of Franeker.

At this spot, I’m going to build my own warehouse. Just like those two, over there. ‘De Twee Gebroeders’ – the ‘Two Brethren’. The grain trade is a good trade. And I see profit in it.
‘Poolshof’, I will call the building. As support for the Polish people. We do get grain from that part of the world too. The Baltic. The Polish do not have a royal family for some time now. That’s been hard for them…

But last year Stanislaus Poniatowski came into power, with help of his girlfriend Catharina the Great. They called him king August III of Poland-Lithuania.
He takes his people by the hand, in his country. On to a golden age of science and culture!
It’s so inspiring!