Amsterdam Oud West

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Amsterdam Oud West
province North Holland North Holland
local community Flag of the Amsterdam municipality Amsterdam
Coordinates 52 ° 22 ′  N , 4 ° 52 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′  N , 4 ° 52 ′  E
Important traffic route S100 S106
prefix 020
Postcodes 1051-1059
Location of the Oud-West neighborhood in Amsterdam
Location of the Oud-West neighborhood in AmsterdamTemplate: Infobox location in the Netherlands / maintenance / map

Oud-West ( German  Alt-West ) is a district of the municipality of Amsterdam in the Amsterdam-West district and belongs to the Dutch province of North Holland . The area of ​​the district was (July 2009) 1.75 km²; in 2003 Oud-West had a population of 31,905 people, and in 2007 it was inhabited by 177 nationalities.

meaning

In the broadest sense, Oud-West was the name for all older neighborhoods in Amsterdam-West before the Second World War , including the districts of De Baarsjes , Westerpark and the district of Bos en Lommer .

history

The history of Oud-West begins with the creation of a pedestrian path from Amsterdam to Sloten , which later became Heiligeweg and Overtoom . Around 1661, the Kwakerspoel canal (ndl. Gracht ) was created in this part of the city , where the Bellamyplein is today . It was a rural area with windmill-powered sawmills. The Kwakerspoel was drained around 1890 . When the last windmill was dismantled, the former canal was drained and converted into a street, the Kwakerstraat . After 1636 the first municipal buildings, hostels and printing works were built in this area and in 1784 the De Liefde church . More commercial architecture and residential buildings were added, and a mixed Amsterdam neighborhood was created. A large hall complex, the Remise Tollenstraat , was built for the first electric tram . which served as the terminus and repair building for the Amsterdam trams and buses until 1996 . De Hallen have been a listed building since April 2002 and are to be converted into a theater, a sports school, a cinema and a library. Construction work on this began in 2013 and is expected to be completed in 2015. The district chairman Bouwe Olij opened the new district museum Bellamy Buurtmuseum in December 2008 , where exhibitions about the history of Oud-West take place. In April 2009, 230 buildings were listed in the Oud-West district.

Residential area

The Oud-West district is officially divided into the residential areas (as of July 2009):

  • Bellamybuurt : between Kinkerstraat, Bilderdijkkade and Tweede Kostverlorenkade.
  • Borgerbuurt : between Kinkerstraat, Bilderdijkgracht, Jacob van Lennep -Kanaal and Kostverlorenvaart.
  • Cremerbuurt : between Overtoom, Kostverlorenvaart, Jacob van Lennepkanaal and Nicolaas Beetsstraat .
  • De Costabuurt : between Hugo de Groot -racht, Singelgracht, J. v. Lennepkanaal and Bilderdijkgracht.
  • Helmersbuurt : between Singelgracht, Overtoom, Nicolaas Beetsstraat and J. v. Lennep Canal.
  • Vondelparkbuurt : between Amstelveenseweg, Overtoom, Vondelpark and Stadhouderskade.

See also

literature

  • Ton Heijdra, De Victorie starts in Oud-West . Verlag Rene de Milliano, Alkmar 2001, ISBN 90-72810-34-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Number of inhabitants in Amsterdam Oud-West . Dutch, accessed January 16, 2013
  2. ↑ See on this: Ton Heijdra, De Victorie begins in Oud-West , s. Entry in the literature section
  3. ↑ Project De Hallen ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Dutch, accessed August 11, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.west.amsterdam.nl
  4. ↑ Public facilities are to be built in De Hallen . Dutch, accessed August 15, 2009