Vlooienburg
Vlooienburg or Vloonburg was a filled-in island in the
History
Not much is known about the early history of Vlooienburg, surrounded by three canals and the Amstel river. The island was expanded considerably to the south and was filled with rubble, shards, and unusable ship parts.[3] The first sale of a house in the area dates back to June 1603. This means that the issuance of empty lots must have taken place in Winter 1602. In a short time, four blocks of houses with a total of two hundred residential buildings arose here.[4] In 1605 timber traders arrived.[5] The name Vlooienburg first appeared in 1609. The Brownists settled there as well. For the Jewish population the change came in 1614 through a diktat from the States of Holland.[6] The library Ets Haim was founded in 1616. From 1618 onwards, three small synagogues and schools were established in private houses, and after a merger, the Talmud Torah at Houtgracht served until 1675.[7]
For many years it was the location of a covered ballgame or tennis court, and a fish-market at the waterfront. Around 1840 Coster Diamonds was established on the island. In 1874 and 1882, the Houtgracht and Leprozengracht were filled in, meaning that Vlooienburg was no longer an island. The Waterlooplein was designed in the resulting space. The Blauwbrug dates from 1884.
After the
References
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- ^ Interieur van de Portugese Synagoge aan de Houtgracht te Amsterdam, Jan Veenhuysen (attributed to), 1664
- ^ Maarten Hell (2024) Verloren wereld in de Amstelbocht. Leven op Vlooienburg, 1600-1815.
- ^ "Vlooienburg: de Jodenbuurt onder de Stopera". openresearch.amsterdam. March 1, 2020.
- ^ J.E. Abrahamse (2010) De grote uitleg van Amsterdam, p. 194
- ^ Hoe Amsterdam Mokum werd
- ^ Theo Bakker's Domein: Vlooienburg & Zwanenburg Archived January 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine (Dutch)
- ^ https://spinozaweb.org/locations/3
- ^ https://spinozaweb.org/locations/5
- ^ http://remdoc.huygens.knaw.nl/#/document/remdoc/e4458
- ^ "De verdwenen woonwijk van het Waterlooplein - Gemeente Amsterdam".