Linnaeusstraat | Transvaalkade 05/08/2024 19h39
The corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Transvaalkade on a Summer night. Coffeebar on the corner Cafecito opened in July 2024.
Linneausstraat
The Linnaeusstraat in Amsterdam-Oost is a street between the Mauritskade and the Ringdijk, located around the Watergraafsmeer. The Middenweg is an extension. The Linnaeusstraat was named in 1878 after the famous botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778).
Previously the street was called Oetewalerweg, to the former village of Oetewaal or Houtewaal, located on the former seawall at the current Muiderpoort. The oldest mention of the village dates from 1308. The road connected the village with the Diemermeer (Watergraafsmeer). In March 1651 Oetewaal was almost wiped out in a storm flood. What was left of the village was annexed by Amsterdam at the Fourth Explanation in 1663. Before 1896, the Oetewalerweg was partly located on the territory of Nieuwer-Amstel. The Oetewalerstraat and an Oetewalerpad, adjacent to the Linnaeustraat, have been on the territory of Amsterdam since 1896.
Well-known buildings on Linnaeusstraat include: the Tropenmuseum, the tower of the Muiderkerk, which burnt down in 1989, the Burgerziekenhuis (up to and including the beginning of 2009 the Oost / Watergraafsmeer district office). The Oosterpark is located along the Linnaeustraat.
Since 1884, the Dam - Plantage - Linnaeusstraat horse tram line has been running through this street. A horse tram depot was built for this purpose on the corner of Derde Oosterparkstraat. From 1881 the Gooische Stoomtram passed the level crossing with the railway line through the Linnaeusstraat of the Weesperpoort station in the direction of Diemen.
The horse tram line was replaced in 1903 by tram line 9. Except between 1932 and 1940 (when line 9 drove to Molukkenstraat), line 9 has always driven through Linnaeusstraat in the last century. The Gooise tram was replaced by a bus service in 1939/1940 and in 1940 line 9 over the remaining tram tracks was extended over the entire length of the street and further to Watergraafsmeer. Line 9 was discontinued and replaced by tram 19 on July 22, 2018.
Various other tram lines towards the Muiderpoort station have driven through the Linnaeusstraat over the years, such as lines 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 26.
[ Wikipedia 2019 ]
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Beethovenstraat 05/08/2024 19h04
Happy outsider...
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Oosterpark 05/08/2024 19h21S
Summer in the Oosterpark with a planetree planted in 1918 ahead here.
Oosterpark
The Oosterpark in Amsterdam is the first large park laid out by the municipality of Amsterdam. The park is located in the Oost/Watergraafsmeer borough and forms a component of the Oosterpark area. The park, an English garden, was designed by Dutch landscape architect Leonard Anthony Springer and was laid out in 1891.
In order to create the Oosterpark, a centuries old cemetery behind the Tropical Museum had to be relocated. There were a lot of protests at the time when the municipality of Amsterdam suggested the new plans. In the end the protesters gave in and agreed with the new location for "their" cemetery which is now known as the New Ooster Begraafplaats. In the park is a pond with a small island. The park also contains a part of the former cemetery.
The park contains The National Slavery Monument, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands in 1863. The monument was unveiled on July 1, 2002 in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix. The dynamic dimension of the monument, the National Institute for Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) was opened on July 1, 2003. Every year on July 1, NiNsee commemorates the abolition of Dutch Slavery in the Oosterpark with the Keti Koti festival.
The Oosterpark also contains a memorial to Theo van Gogh, a film maker and controversial columnist who in 2004 was murdered nearby by a Muslim extremist.
Along the park towards Linnaeusstraat (close to the Royal Tropical Institute) there are a number of grey heron nests.
The streets lining the southern and western borders of the park are also called Oosterpark. Originally these streets were called Eerste Parkstraat ("First Park Street").
[ Source and more Info: Wikipedia - Oosterpark ]
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Medina 17/09/2024 16h26
You better like blue when walking through the Medina of Chefchaouen.
Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون, romanized: Shafshāwan), also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City". Chefchaouen is situated just inland from Tangier and Tétouan.
It was founded as a military outpost shortly before the Spanish Reconquista of Granada, and its population grew quickly with Muslim and Jewish immigrants fleeing from Spain. The economy is based on a traditional agro-pastoral system with olive and fig plantations; numerous water mills for grinding grain and olives; a handicrafts sector focusing on leather, iron, textiles, and carpentry; and summer-dominated tourism.
The city of Chefchaouen is located at about 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level in the foothills of the Kaʻala mountain in the western part of the Rif mountain range, in northwestern Morocco. The province of Chefchaouen is among the largest in Morocco, with an area of 3,443 km2.
Population: 43.000
Elevation: 564 m
[ Wikipedia - Chefchaouen ]
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Medina 17/09/2024 16h22
Yours truly posing in one of the many blue alleys of Chefchaouen. Photo taken by Abdel WMC*
Chefchaouen
Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون, romanized: Shafshāwan), also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, for which it is nicknamed the "Blue City". Chefchaouen is situated just inland from Tangier and Tétouan.
It was founded as a military outpost shortly before the Spanish Reconquista of Granada, and its population grew quickly with Muslim and Jewish immigrants fleeing from Spain. The economy is based on a traditional agro-pastoral system with olive and fig plantations; numerous water mills for grinding grain and olives; a handicrafts sector focusing on leather, iron, textiles, and carpentry; and summer-dominated tourism.
The city of Chefchaouen is located at about 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level in the foothills of the Kaʻala mountain in the western part of the Rif mountain range, in northwestern Morocco. The province of Chefchaouen is among the largest in Morocco, with an area of 3,443 km2.
Population: 43.000
Elevation: 564 m
[ Wikipedia - Chefchaouen ]
*WMC = With My Camera
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