Ruigoord says goodbye to founder Hans Plomp: “He connected everyone with his warmth”

Ruigoord is another icon poorer. In 1973, Hans Plomp was one of the squatters who settled in the village. In the more than fifty years that followed, Plomp fought time and again for the survival of the cultural sanctuary. On Tuesday, he died at the age of 80 as a result of prostate cancer. Born in Amsterdam, Hans Plomp was a poet, writer, artist and, in 1973, one of the founders of the Ruigoord cultural sanctuary. A village that is then about to…