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Pieter Goemansbrug: Bridge 93 and the Song About the Canals
Bridge 93 honours Pieter Goemans, who wrote Aan de Amsterdamse grachten in 1949. Rebuilt in 1988 as steel, not disguised as a stone arch.
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The Flattening: How the Tram Took Amsterdam’s Arches
The Flattening: How the Tram Took Amsterdam’s Arches Look at any seventeenth or eighteenth-century view of an Amsterdam canal and you will notice something missing from the modern city. The bridges arch. They rise from the quay in a curve, high enough for a laden barge to pass beneath, and they come down again on…
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Blauwezandbrug: Bridge 92 and Piet Kramer’s Last Northern Bridge
Bridge 92, the Blauwezandbrug, was Piet Kramer’s final bridge in Amsterdam-Noord. Built 1940, named for the blue soil of Tuindorp Buiksloot.
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Paerlduiker: Bridge 91 and the Brewery Between Two Shipyard Islands
Bridge 91, the Paerlduiker, links Kattenburg to Wittenburg. It is named after a seventeenth-century brewery and is half bridge, half culvert.
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Brug 89: The White Bridge in a City That Paints Them Green
Bridge 89 carries the Weteringstraat over the Lijnbaansgracht. Built 1971, and painted white rather than the green Amsterdam uses everywhere else.
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Brug 88: Three Arches, Then One, Recorded by Two Photographers
Bridge 88 had three passages in 1872 and one by 1894. Oosterhuis and Jacob Olie photographed the change, and their plates are the only record.
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Brug 87: The Kramer Bridge That the War Held Up for Nine Years
Bridge 87, once the Spiegelbrug, was designed by Piet Kramer around 1940 and not finished until 1949. The occupation is visible in the plainness.
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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…