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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