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Brug 86: Piet Kramer, a Traffic Road and the Vanished Bakery
Bridge 86, once the Bakkerijbrug, was built by Piet Kramer in 1934 for a new radial road. It survived because it crosses the Lijnbaansgracht.
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Brug 85: The Number That Moved Across the City
Bridge 85 is two bridges: an 1883 iron footbridge over the Vijzelgracht, lost in 1934, and a 1969 steel tram viaduct at Mr. Visserplein.
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Freddy Heinekenbrug: Bridge 84 and the Brewer on the Singelgracht
Bridge 84, the Freddy Heinekenbrug, crosses the Singelgracht at the Weteringcircuit. Built 1875, rebuilt 2005, and named for the brewer that year.
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Brug 83: The Bridge That Went When the Canal Did
Bridge 83 was built in 1882 over the Vijzelgracht and demolished in 1933 when the canal was filled in. The number survives, the bridge does not.
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Museumbrug: Bridge 82 and the Crossing Built Before the Museum
The Museumbrug, Bridge 82, carries the Weteringschans over the Singelgracht to the Rijksmuseum. Built in 1877, eight years before the museum opened.
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The Prinsengracht: Amsterdam’s Working Canal, the Annexe at 263, and the Bridges That Cross It
The Prince’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Working Ring, the Annexe at Number 263, and the Fourteen Bridges That Cross It The Prinsengracht is the outermost of the three great rings, the longest, and the one where Amsterdam actually got on with things. Where the Herengracht was zoned for display and the Keizersgracht for solid merchant respectability, the…
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Brug 81: The Seventh Bridge and the End of the Famous View
Bridge 81 is the last of the seven arches on the Reguliersgracht. Rebuilt in 1976, but given an arch so the famous view would survive.
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The Keizersgracht: Amsterdam’s Broadest Ring, Its Museums, and the Bridges That Cross It
The Emperor’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Broadest Ring, Its Museums of Light and Enlightenment, and the Thirteen Bridges That Cross It The Keizersgracht is the middle canal of the three great rings, and the widest of them. It is named for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, whose imperial crown Amsterdam was granted the right to display in…
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Entrepotdoksluis: Bridge 80 and the Customs Dock It Was Built to Seal
The Customs Bridge: Brug 80, the Bonded Warehouse Dock, and the First Drawbridge in This Series After five fixed crossings in a row, Brug 80 does something none of its recent neighbours can. It opens. The Entrepotdoksluis carries the Hoogte Kadijk over the old Entrepotdok lock, linking the Entrepotdok to the Nieuwe Vaart and so…
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The Herengracht: Amsterdam’s Richest Address, the Golden Bend, and the Bridges That Cross It
The Gentlemen’s Canal: Amsterdam’s Richest Address, the Golden Bend, and the Twelve Bridges That Cross It If the Singel is the canal that defended Amsterdam, the Herengracht is the canal that displayed it. This is the innermost and the grandest of the three great rings dug in the seventeenth century, the address the wealthiest merchants…
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Brandweerbrug: Bridge 79 and the Farmers’ Ditch Older Than Amsterdam
The Fire Brigade Bridge: Brug 79 Over the Boerenwetering, and the Ditch That Predates the City Brug 79, the Brandweerbrug, takes the series further from the canal ring than it has yet been. This is Amsterdam-Zuid, well outside the seventeenth-century city, and the bridge spans a waterway that is older than every canal we have…
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Bridge 78: The Windmill Crossing That Lost Its Name in 2016
Out of the Ring: Brug 78, the Windmill It Was Named For, and the Name It Lost in 2016 With Brug 78 the sequence leaves the canal ring behind. Where 76 and 77 sit on the Amstel at the edge of the seventeenth-century city, 78 is out east, connecting the Funenkade to the Zeeburgerpad in…
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Henrick de Keijserbrug: Bridge 77 and the Architect Who Gave Amsterdam Its Skyline
The Architect’s Bridge: Brug 77, the Achtergracht, and the Best Free View in Amsterdam The Henrick de Keijserbrug carries the western embankment of the Amstel over the mouth of the Achtergracht. It is a short walk from Brug 76, and the pairing is deliberate on the city’s part: the burgomaster who organised the Third Expansion…
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Papiermolensluis: brug 57 en de winkel die haar naam gaf
De Papiermolensluis, brug 57, is een welfbrug uit 1781 over de Brouwersgracht. De naam komt van een uithangbord, niet van een molen.
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Frans Hendricksz. Oetgensbrug: Bridge 76 and the Mayor Who Built the Canal Ring
Where the Prinsengracht Ends: The 1773 Bridge Named for the Mayor Who Built the Canal Ring Last time we looked at Brug 75, the unnamed crossing in the Utrechtsestraat, and noted that it stands second-to-last on the Prinsengracht. This is the last one. The Frans Hendricksz. Oetgensbrug carries the western bank of the Amstel across…