Anjeliersgracht

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The Anjeliersgracht was a canal in the center of Amsterdam . It belonged to the famous canal belt and was located in the Jordaan district . The canal was drained in the 19th century and has been called Westerstraat ever since .

history

Tweede Anjeliersdwarsstraat

The name for the Anjeliersgracht comes from the Dutch flower name "Anjelier", a plant genus of carnations . Several canals in Amsterdam got their names from plants, for example the Goudsbloemgracht ( marigold ), the Lindengracht ( linden trees ) and the Rozengracht ( roses ).

The Anjeliersstraat , not to be confused with the former Anjeliersgracht, runs parallel to today's Westerstraat . There are also two side streets of the same name, the eerste en tweede (first and second) Anjeliersdwarsstraat . The Westerstraat (formerly Anjeliersgracht) runs from the Noordermarkt to the Marnixstraat. The Westerstraat market is held there every Monday .

Around 1750 the nearby Noordermarkt was a much-visited weekly market and in 1845 it was placed under municipal administration. The market people now had to pay money to the community for the stalls. The Anjeliersgracht was drained in 1861 and renamed Westerstraat in 1862 . The reasons for the conversion to the street were, as with many former canals in Amsterdam , the poor water quality and an improvement for the increasing traffic. The canal lies between the Prinsengracht and the Lijnbaansgracht. Houses have been built on the canal since 1650 and this has continued to this day. Because of the moist, sandy soil there was a “lopsidedness” of the historical buildings.

The Lindengracht canal, which is also nearby, was converted into a street in 1896, and a weekly market was also established here. The two markets attracted many market traders from Noordermarkt. Between November 7, 1922 and January 1, 1932 the tram ("Tram") No. 20 drove from the Marnixstraat through the Westerstraat and had its terminus at Noordermarkt.

In the second half of 2002 houses no. 220 to 224 and 226 to 230 were demolished in order to build new houses for the elderly in their place. Since three of the rear buildings were prime examples of the slums ("Krotwoningen") of the 19th and early 20th centuries, they were dismantled and rebuilt in their original state in the open-air museum in Arnhem . At that time, the district councilor Guido Frankfurther proposed that the Westerstraat or the former Elandsgracht , now also a street, be restored to its original canal status.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anjeliersgracht, Amsterdam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archief Manja Dolan ; from September 7, 2004. History of the Noorder and Westerstraat markets; Dutch. Retrieved June 17, 2009

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '42.3 "  N , 4 ° 53' 0.1"  E