52 Weeks Project
A beautiful newly created walking route through my own neighborhood...
Location: Archimedesplantsoen, Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer (NL)
Coordinates: 52°21'12.2"N 4°56'37.7"E (exact location on Google Maps)
New Walking Route: On 20/12/2023 I created a nice short lunchtime walking route in the Watergraafsmeer. To make before I go shopping at Albert Heijn on Christiaan Huygensplein. Roughly speaking, the route goes over Kruislaan, Archimedesplantsoen, Galileïplantsoen, Wethouder Frankenweg, Middenweg and Christiaans Huygensplein. Length approximately 2.2 to 2.4 kilometers and duration between 25 and 30 minutes. This walk
Ommetje (from the application) was my 2338th Ommetje.
Archimedes: Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.
Brug/Bridge 338: Bridge 338 is a fixed bridge in Amsterdam East over the Molenwetering. The road bridge with plenty of space for pedestrians is located in the Johannes van der Waalsstraat in the middle of the Archimedesplantsoen. The bridge was designed by Piet Kramer and built in 1928 and used the Amsterdam School style. The structure has the typical characteristics of Kramer. One of these is the mixture of brick and natural stone in the form of granite, which has also been used here in the load-bearing pillars of the bridge, which because of this change look like a stack of dam stones. The decorative wrought iron balustrades customary for Kramer have been kept to a minimum here, they are only used at the ends (abutments). The balustrades on the bridge itself are made of brick with a decorative metal ribbon on top, supported by pillars made from granite blocks. Those decorative ribbons are strongly reminiscent of Kramer's bridges in the Amsterdamse Bos. The balustrades also have the typical brickwork pattern of the Amsterdam School (alternation horizontal and vertical). The bridge was widened in the 1950s. [Wikipedia]
Weather: Sunny, 9° C (max this day was 10° C)
To Listen ♫: Miles and Miles - Schiller (Moya Brennan) (Youtube)
Self-portrait technics: 'Stretched arm' method («SPAAL») without self-timer.
