Onbekendegracht

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Onbekendegracht
Onbekendegracht carre.jpg
Onbekendegracht with the rear of Theater Carré
Plantagebuurt - Onbekendegracht.svg
Location of the canal (dark blue)
Location Amsterdam
Postal code1018
Coordinates 52°21′45″N4°54′17″E / 52.362505°N 4.904795°E / 52.362505; 4.904795 Coordinates: 52°21′45″N4°54′17″E / 52.362505°N 4.904795°E / 52.362505; 4.904795
North end Nieuwe Prinsengracht
To Nieuwe Achtergracht

The Onbekendegracht (Unknown Canal) is a short canal in Amsterdam, in the eastern part of the Grachtengordel (canal belt).

Amsterdam Capital city of the Netherlands

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with a population of 866,737, 1,380,872 in the urban area, and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. Amsterdam is in the province of North Holland.

Grachtengordel World Heritage Site in North Holland, Netherlands

The Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010. The Amsterdam Canal District consists of the area around the city’s four main canals: the Singel, the Herengracht, the Keizersgracht, and the Prinsengracht. From the Brouwersgracht, the canals are generally parallel with one another, leading gradually southeast into the Amstel river.

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Location

The Onbekendegracht, which connects the Nieuwe Prinsengracht and the Nieuwe Achtergracht, is located directly behind the Royal Theater Carré in the Weesperbuurt. The cast iron bridge no. 252, built in 1899, connects Nieuwe Achtergracht with the Onbekendegracht. This pedestrian bridge is one of the 72 municipal monuments in the form of a bridge. The buildings at Onbekendegracht 1–5, built in 1906 and designed by AJ Tymensen, became a monument in 2006. Also bridge no. 253 is over the Onbekendegracht.

Nieuwe Prinsengracht Canal in Amsterdam

The Nieuwe Prinsengracht is a canal in the Plantage neighborhood of Amsterdam, an extension of the Prinsengracht in the eastern Grachtengordel.

Nieuwe Achtergracht Canal in Amsterdam

The Nieuwe Achtergracht is a canal in Amsterdam in the east of the [[Grachtengordel] in the Amsterdam-Centrum district. It runs parallel to the Nieuwe Prinsengracht and connects the Onbekendegracht with the Plantage Muidergracht. The canal is crossed by Weesperstraat and Roetersstraat.

Royal Theater Carré

The Royal Theatre Carré is a Neo-Renaissance theatre in Amsterdam, located near the river Amstel. When the theatre was founded in 1887, it was originally meant as a permanent circus building. Currently, it is mainly used for musicals, cabaret performances and pop concerts. Carré is located next to the Amstel, close to Waterlooplein. Its address is Amstel 115.

Name

The Onbekendegracht originally gave the Voormalige Stadstimmertuin street access to the Amstel. In a notarial deed drawn up in 1800 the canal was called "the Onbekende or Amstelgragtje". The name Korte Amstelgrachtje was also in vogue. [1] In 1948, residents of the Onbekendegracht asked the municipality of Amsterdam to change the name of the canal because they found it too strange. However, the request was not granted. [2]

Mill

The impressionist Claude Monet painted a canvas in 1871 entitled "Le Moulin de l'Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam" on which the "Rooseboom" mill is depicted. This 17th-century mill stood between the Amstel and the Onbekendegracht. In the course of time the mill was also called "Binnen Tuchthuismolen", "Het Land van Beloften" or "de Eendracht". In Monet's time, woods such as Paubrasilia were ground by the mill for the production of dyes. The mill was demolished in 1876 to make room for construction of the Carré theater. [3]

Claude Monet French painter

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

<i>Paubrasilia</i> species of plant

Paubrasilia echinata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, and is endemic to the Atlantic Forest. It is a Brazilian timber tree commonly known as Pernambuco wood or Brazilwood and is the national tree of Brazil. This plant has a dense, orange-red heartwood that takes a high shine, and it is the premier wood used for making bows for stringed instruments. The wood also yields a red dye called brazilin, which oxidizes to brazilein.

Monet's painting can be seen in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Art Museum, Institute, Library, Sculpture Park in Houston, TX United States

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with approximately 64,000 works from six continents.

Jacob Olie Dutch photographer

Jacob Olie was a photographer from Amsterdam known for his scenes of everyday life there.

See also

Notes

    1. ↑ Bert Bolle, De Amsterdamse Drosten, hoofdstuk 3, "Wandeling langs een Tijdlijn - Weg uit de Armoede"
    2. ↑ "Typisch Amsterdams - Straatnamen", Amsterdam.nl
    3. ↑ Verdwenen Molens in Nederland molendatabase.org

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