Brug 42 map and location
Like most other bridges in Amsterdam’s 17th-century Canal Ring which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010, there has been a bridge here for centuries. City architect Daniël Stalpaert already drew a bridge here on the design part of his map of 1662 although like #bridge41 the district still had to be built around at that time. At Jacob Bosch, buildings can already be seen in 1679 and a bridge with five passageways can be seen. Frederick de Wits map from 1688 showed almost complete buildings with a bridge.
