page_title: Agneta Matthes
section_title: Activities and services
hierarchical_section_title: Agneta Matthes / Activities and services
caption_attribution_description: English: Agneta van Marken-Matthes
context_page_description: Agneta Wilhelmina Johanna van Marken-Matthes was a Dutch entrepreneur. She and her husband Jacques van Marken were involved in the manufacture of yeast throughout their lives, and were engaged in the cooperative movement, taking care of their workers. Matthes and Van Marken created living quarters for workers in her hometown, Delft in South Holland, named Agnetapark after her. These are considered a model for the cooperative development and construction of garden cities for workers. Matthes founded and ran a Delft perfume factory, Maison Neuve, to take advantage of a by-product from the yeast factory.
caption: Agneta Matthes in 1900
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