Jordaan

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Jordaan (disambiguation) .

Jordaan

province	North Holland
local community	Amsterdam
Area  - land  - water	0.96  km 2 0.84 km 2 0.12 km 2
Residents	19.305 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Coordinates	52 ° 23 '  N , 4 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '  N , 4 ° 53'  E
prefix	020
Postcodes	1015-1016
Location of the Jordaan neighborhood in Amsterdam

Jordaan from the tower of Westerkerk seen from

The Jordaan is a district of Amsterdam . It extends between the Brouwersgracht in the north and the Leidsegracht in the south and between the Prinsengracht in the east and the Singelgracht in the west.

etymology

The origin of the name is unclear. Sometimes reference is made to the river of the same name in Israel and Palestine. However, since the street names predominantly refer to the plant kingdom (Linden-, Palm-, Rozengracht, Boom-, Goudsbloem-, Violettenstraat), the name can possibly be traced back to a corruption of the French word for garden - jardin - because in the 16th In the 17th and 17th centuries, many Huguenots who had fled France had settled in Amsterdam .

history

The district emerged from around 1615 as part of the Amsterdam city expansion in the 17th century. With its small houses, it has always been one of the typical working-class and artisan districts of Amsterdam. During the Great Depression occurred in July 1934 at the Jordaan riots and a workers' uprising, triggered by the reduction of unemployment benefits as part of the austerity policy of the Dutch government. A protest meeting of the Unemployed Combat Committee organized by the Communist Partij van Nederland was directed against this . This led to scuffles, then fights with the police and finally “a kind of barricade fight ”. Police, Marines, and infantry were then assembled to advance towards the neighborhood and eventually take it. The fighting claimed seven lives and around 200 were injured.

Living in the Jordaan became hip towards the end of the 20th century . As a result of the gentrification , rents rose sharply, so that many residents could no longer afford an apartment there.

Attractions

The Pianola Museum is located on Westerstraat , and the Houseboat Museum is located on Prinsengracht near Elandsgracht ; also in the Prinsengracht, opposite the Anne Frank House , is the Tulip Museum .

Personalities

Well-known sons and daughters of this district are the pedagogue Theo Thijssen , to whom a small museum has also been dedicated, Jan Lighart , the artist and collector Jacobus Kloppenburg as well as the singers Willy Alberti , Johnny Jordaan , Aunt Leen and the accordion player Johnny Meijer (the last three with a bronze statue on the Johnny Jordaanplein).

Web links

Commons : Jordaan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.jordaanweb.nl (Dutch, English)
• www.jordaaninfo.nl (Dutch, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on April 20, 2018 (Dutch).
2. ↑ Johannes ter Gouw: Amsterdam: oorsprong en afleiding van de namen der grachten, eilanden, pleinen, straten, stegen, bruggen, sluizen en torens dezer stad , volume 2. Amsterdam 1865, p. 117 .
3. ↑ Zo groeide Amsterdam in de gouden eeuw , Historiek Net, accessed on May 27, 2020 (Dutch). [1]
4. ↑ JHM Bakker, E. Nijhof: Het 'Jordaan-oproer'-verzet tegen de steunverlaging in July 1934 . In: Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis , Vol. 4 (1978), pp. 35-69.
5. ^ ^{A b} Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 349.