Contents
Cover
About the Book
About the Author and Translator
Also by Geert Mak
Praise
List of Illustrations
Maps:
Amsterdam c. 1300
Amsterdam c. 1575
Amsterdam c. 1650
Amsterdam c. 1980
Title Page
Prologue
1. The Beautifully Constructed House
2. Bread and Stones
3. The Enemy
4. Towards a New Jerusalem
5. The Joy of God’s Wrath
6. Insiders and Outsiders
7. The Ice Age Explained
8. The Fire Palace
9. The Last Stop of Train 11537
10. The Years of Moral Panic
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Index of Places
Copyright
A delightful journey through time and through the streets of one of the greatest cultural capitals in Europe.
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city’s soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam’s progress from waterlogged settlement to a major financial centre and thriving modern metropolis.
Philip Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970 and now works in London as a journalist, novelist and translator.
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‘Mak’s use of pertinent anecdotes not only makes the book highly readable, but it puts the scent of the city in your nostrils and taste of it in your mouth. For anybody who wants to get a broader perspective of a town which allows us to air our prejudices and neatly splits us all into hedonists or controls freaks, liberals or conservatives, this excellent book is more than essential’
Irvine Welsh, Herald
‘Mak’s brief is . . . to bring Amsterdam into the modern age. This he does with wit and style. But his real achievement is to make accessible unfussily – and unsentimentally – one of Europe’s most astonishing urban success stories’
James Woodall, Financial Times
‘Lovers of Amsterdam will revel in the exhaustive reconstruction of everyday life in the medieval city’
Lilian Pizzichini, Independent on Sunday
‘For those who wish truly to understand the structure, human and material, of one of Europe’s great cities, Amsterdam may become a classic’
John Ure, Geographical
‘Magnificent. One of the most readable, most surprising historical works ever written’
Het Parool, Amsterdam
‘An extraordinarily powerful book. Do you want stories? Read it. Do you want the history of ordinary men and women? Read it. Do you want to learn to love Amsterdam? Read it’
Geert Van Istendael, Vrij Nederland
Amsterdam is a city, but it is also a country by itself, a small nation inside a larger one. Moreover, it is a city that spreads out progressively across the country. For a first impression it is best, as always, to drop in on the neighbours for a cup of coffee. Foreigners are often more interested in us Amsterdammers than we are in ourselves, decent and modest as we are.
Outsiders find themselves astonished by all sorts of things, too numerous to mention in detail. Certain observations, however, recur so often that something about them is bound to be true. Our political debate is as exciting as a wet sponge. Our culture of compromise – once a bitter necessity in order for us to be able to survive the next flood together – is now so refined that the concept of “feasibility” has begun to determine our entire way of thinking. Our avarice is legendary: the correspondent of Le Monde, Christian Chartier, has observed that former Prime Minister Lubbers spoke about an “investment in the future” even during a debate about the Gulf War of 1991. Our spatial planning and drive for order are phenomenal. Our toleration and flexibility allow us to adapt to each new style that comes blowing across the border. The precocity of this region astonishes everyone: although it is a precocity which may also be called “guidebook effect” or “cosmopolitan trendiness”, or defined as a “magpie culture”. Levi’s sends its trend scouts around the city at least once a year to find out what the women are wearing now; the music shops have all kinds of CDs and records which are not yet available anywhere else; McDonald’s first tried out its vegetarian hamburgers in the Low Countries. As to business in Amsterdam, it is conducted in a pleasant sort of anarchism, a yielding order, a sober chaos.
In other words, we have a suburban culture which knows few conventions, something which, according to some foreign commentators, has everything to do with the fact that Amsterdam (with the exception of the German occupation from 1940 to 1945) has never been ripped to shreds, never suppressed, that it has never stood in the surf, that it has never really known great difficulties.
For centuries Amsterdam – like the rest of the Netherlands – has been relatively safe. Yet its situation on the periphery of the great European trouble spots has led to what is, in the eyes of our neighbours, our most remarkable characteristic: complaining. The Dutch are not especially proud of their country, and this is doubly true for the Amsterdammers, whose lack of patriotism borders on the awful. The intense, aggressive nationalism of other countries is visible here only in the soccer stadiums. If Dutch people are nationalistic outside them, they are defensively so, in protection of their heritage and security – if they are not preaching, that is. The Dutch and the Americans (who have a considerable Dutch heritage) make the best religious ministers in the world.
All this, however, has nothing to do with our proverbial soberness. For centuries the Dutch have simply had no need for nationalism. They have come to take their achievements for granted; moreover, most of the miracles of their country are negative ones. Their greatest pride is perhaps that certain things did not happen: no appalling poverty; no large-scale racial unrest; no terrorism; and even the sea has not flooded the country for many years. Their aspirations beyond that are not very high. What more does a Dutchman want than, in the words of the retired civil servant Pieter Bas (the famous protagonist of a novel by Godfried Bomans), “freedom, old age, money, honour, fame, a dear wife, a lot of children, health, and my own little garden with a fence around it”?
One day, quite by chance, I saw our sovereign at the official departure, after a state visit, of the President of India, one of the largest nations in the world. It was a grey, rainy Amsterdam morning, a military band was playing, and only a handful of elderly people and truant youngsters turned out to watch this, an occasion for which any ordinary country would have drummed up a fleet of Jaguars, Cadillacs, or Mercedes stretch limousines. Instead, the convoy consisted of about ten modest-looking Fords and a little bus from a local tour operator.
The myth of Amsterdam is a myth of the spirit, where that of other European cities is, especially, one of monumentality. Many cities are distinguished by their engineering and their architecture, by a style of building that transforms the citizen into a subject. Monuments are the foremost carriers of a city’s mythology, or, more precisely, of the mythology a city wishes for itself. The American city sociologist Donald Olsen once wrote: “A monument is meant to intimidate or to kindle admiration: to remind the onlooker of the age of the dynasty, the power of the regime, the wealth of the community, the truth of its ideology, or of a military victory, a successful revolution, which propagated such wealth, power and truth.” Inwardness, he added, was in this context to be regarded as fundamentally wrong. “If a monument is to succeed in its aim, it has to be able to wrench the individual out of his daily life, away from the half-past six train which he has to catch, the driving licence he has to renew, the stamps he has to buy; it has to remind him that life contains more than these worries, that he may count himself lucky to be inhabiting such a glorious metropolis, to be subject to such a benevolent ruler and adherent to the one true faith.”1
This is the song sung by every monumental building, the language spoken by the nineteenth-century villa suburb. Regent Street, Place de la Concorde, Stalin’s Moscow skyscrapers, all make it clear that art and architecture are not merely concerned with themselves but with objects beyond them: politics, ideas, ethics, emotion, avarice, craft, institutions, history. In this way, the modern counterparts of the medieval city came into existence, places that fight chaos, no longer with walls and gates, but with a fantastical tissue of architectural construction. They are purely technical cities, suggesting unity in a fractured world, and clarity in a time longing for authority. Amsterdam, too, knows these bulwarks of technology, at least on its periphery.
Even so, Amsterdam is still an exception in this respect, for it is almost an anti-monument turned flesh. The city tried once to express its wealth and its power in a building, but that was bargained away to the royal court in the Hague. The architecture of prestige has largely passed Amsterdam by, apart from the Rijksmuseum and the Palace of People’s Industry, although the latter burned to the ground in 1929. In the late twentieth century, the combination of Town Hall and opera house resulted in a massive, cumbersome building – the Stopera – born out of thriftiness and with all the grandeur of an Ikea chair. The modern business district, which lacks the least display of planning vision, is hidden away on the south-eastern outskirts of the city.
For some reason, monumental buildings do not work in Amsterdam. Whether such buildings are the result of the plan to lure the Olympic Games to the city, or of the plan to make the banks of the IJ (an arm of the IJsselmeer) something that would be noticed abroad, or of the town-hall-and-opera idea which brought about the Stopera, the city’s answer is nothing but mockery and sniggering. The monumentality of Amsterdam exists only in the heads of its inhabitants, not on the streets.
Amsterdam is not proud; indeed, it is even unproud in a proud sort of way. The wealthiest Amsterdammers have clung stubbornly to the sobriety of their seventeenth-century forefathers, with the result that a cityscape has emerged untouched by the grandeur of absolutism, and uncut by the broad avenues which might have been driven through the city in the nineteenth century. Even the proud Amsterdam of the Golden Age was, in its time and according to the norms of the day, the very anti-image of a modern city: traditional in outlook, oriented towards individual citizens rather than a powerful aristocracy. Its wealth has always been quiet and discreet. There is a direct line from the eighteenth-century Widow Pels on the Herengracht, who, although the richest inhabitant of the Amsterdam of her day, employed no more than five servants, to the senior manager from the city who recently asked in a weekly magazine whether the KLM airline could not tone down the service in its Business Class a little: “A cheese sandwich and a glass of milk are more than enough as far as I am concerned.”
The explanation for the modesty of this civic pride lies in the simple fact that Amsterdam has already existed for a very long time as a city state, and the quiet self-assurance our medium-sized European city derives from this fact is not to be underestimated. Amsterdammers, in other words, have for centuries felt no need of boastful tombs, palaces, statues, avenues.
The citizens of Amsterdam do not put on airs – which is one myth the Amsterdammers themselves believe. There has never been a royal court here to serve as a point of reference for the settled bourgeoisie, neither has there ever been an absolute monarch able to force through radical changes of the old structure, and with the power and the means to build on a truly monumental scale. Furthermore, the richest Amsterdam merchants were imbued with the conviction that money was, first and foremost, capital for business and the family, a basis for future generations to build upon, an idea considerably less important to the nobility in other countries, since they always had their lands to fall back on. Thus the culture that emerged in Amsterdam was one in which possessions were held to be more important than honour and where money usually counted for more than fashion, morality, social origin, and prestige, with all the advantages and disadvantages that this mentality brought. The lack of pride of modern Amsterdammers goes further, however. It is not only a character trait, it is a social norm. There is an unspoken ban on displaying high spirits, and the mowing machine is always on stand-by to chop off any heads that are raised above the parapet.
Commentators usually point to the old republican tradition of the city which, as early as 1581, permitted Amsterdam to abjure its prince. There seems to be rather more to it than that, however. We must not forget that for many centuries large parts of the Netherlands have been prey to catastrophes and near-catastrophes. It is a cliché, but none the less true, that people have worked their hearts out in this country in an effort of epic proportions to keep the place above water. This has given the Dutch, and therefore also the Amsterdammers, a natural feeling of ownership: the land was, literally, theirs. At the same time, however, there came about a curious coagulation of power relations, a culture of consensus and compromise which softened and eventually concealed even the fiercest generational conflicts. And yet every now and then, throughout history, the crowd broke through the fences, the quiet disturbed by a day of unheard-of rampaging and hysteria. Afterwards, however, the spiritual order was restored, and once more life carried on calmly and soberly.
See here: Fourteenth-century tin figure of a knight mounted on a horse. Photo by W Krook, Afdeling Archeaologie, dienst Amsterdam Beheer, courtesy of the Archeological Depot Amsterdam.
See here and see here: Cornelius Anthoniszoon (1507–61), Birds-eye view of Amsterdam (1534). Courtesy of Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Dirck Jacobszoon, Amsterdam merchant couple, probably Egbert Gerbrandszoon, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and his wife (1541). Courtesy of Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Artist unknown, The Schreierstoren, drawing, seventeenth century. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Artist unknown, The City of Amsterdam, 1611, detail. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69), Elsje Christiaens hanging on the gibbet (c. 1664), pen and wash with bistre. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.
See here: Johannes Lingelbach (1624–74), Dam square with new Town Hall under construction (1656). Courtesy of Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheijde (1638–98), Dam square with new Town Hall (1673). Courtesy of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here and see here: Artist unknown, Amsterdam as seen from the IJ, engraving, seventeenth century. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: H. J. Baden, Interior of the Nieuwezijdskapel during a service.
See here: Job Berckheyde (1630–93), The Inner Courtyard of the Stock Exchange after Renovation (1668). Courtesy of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Adriaan Artmann, River Scene, drawing (1755). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Hendrick Dubbels (c. 1621–76), The Amstel River in Winter with Blockhouses (c. 1650). Courtesy of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Hendrick Cornelis Vroom (1566–1640), The IJ (1608). Courtesy of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
See here: Jacob Marrell, Four Tulips and an Anemone (c. 1640). Courtesy of the Riksmuseum-Stichting, Amsterdam.
See here: Hermanus Petrus Schouten, The Portuguese Synagogue (1770). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Artist unknown, The Tuchthuis (House of Correction), engraving, seventeenth century Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: W Streelink, The Pachtersoproer (Leaseholders’ Uprising), drawing, 1777. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Artist unknown, A Demonstration of Electricity in the Felix Meritis, drawing (c. 1870). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Gerrit Lamberts, The Gallow Fields, drawing, 1795. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Photographer unknown, View of the Poleis van Volksvlijt, (undated). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Artist unknown, Panorama of Amsterdam from the Oosterkerk, (c. 1870). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Photographer unknown, The Uilenburgstraat (c. 1900). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: W Streelink, The Palingoproer, (Eel Uprising), etching, 1886. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Photographer unknown, An Amsterdam Street, (c. 1910). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Photographer unknown, The New American Hotel (c. 1910). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Photographer unknown, View of the back of houses on the Warmoesstraat (c. 1920). Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Emmy Andriesse, Small child during the Hunger Winter, 1945. Courtesy of Prentenkabinet van de Universiteit, Leiden.
See here: Photographer unknown, Dancing Couples in front of a Gracht with Street Organ, 1945. Courtesy of the Municipal Archives (Gemeentearchief), Amsterdam.
See here: Cor Jaring, Burning Lievertje, 1965. © Cor Jaring.
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Gijsbreght II van 12
Gijsbreght III van 20
Gijsbreght IV van 13, 18, 22
Jan van 13, 18
Wolfgerus van 12
Aertsz, Pieter 40
Aglionby, William 121
Aken, Klaas Pieterszoon van 67–8
Albrecht, Count of Holland 32
Alva, Duke of 81, 84
Amices, Edmondo de 208
Amsburg, Claus von 293
Anthoniszoon, Cornelis 53–4
Arents, Aagje 62
Asscher, Abraham 245
Atterbag, King 32
Avesnes, Gwijde van 19, 30
Baart, Jan 15, 25, 26, 32
Baille, Pierre 127
Banningh Cocq, Frans 116, 129
Barentsz, Willem 117
Barlaeus 138
Bartels, Flip 228
Bartolotti van den Heuvel, Jacoba 134, 137
Bast, Pieter 93
Beatrix, Crown Princess (later Queen) 293, 295
Beets, Nicolaas 196
Bempten, Gillis van 168–9
Benthuyzen, Joriaen 62
Berlage, Hendrik Petrus 220, 233, 237–8, 239, 244, 299
Bernhard, Prince 244
Beukelszoon, Jan 65
Beuningen, Coenraad van 122, 134–5, 136, 137, 138, 141, 150
Bicker, Andries 116, 123
Cornelis 116, 123, 124
Hendrick 168
Jacob 123
Jan 123
Bicker Raye, Jacob 142, 148–50, 153, 156–8, 163, 165–6, 168, 172, 173, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181, 182
Bilderdijk, Willem 196
Blaeu, Jan 115, 117–18, 128
Blockzijl, Max 249
Boekman, Emanuel 251
Boer, Feike de 277
Böhl, Herman de Liagre 282
Boissevain, Walrave 241, 246, 247
Bomans, J. 245
Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon 188, 192
Bonger, Professor 251
Borrie, G.W B. 245, 246
Borssom, Antonie van 115
Braatbard, Chaim 175
Braudel, Fernand 24, 56
Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaenszoon 92, 105
Brederode, Hendrik van 84
Broekhoff, K. H. 278, 280–1
Bronckhorst, Vincent van 115, 116, 126, 128
Brugman, Johannes 47
Brugmans, H. 75, 147
Brunt, Renyer 78
Burch, Jan van den 58
Burg, Coenraad 115, 128
Calvin, John 75
Campen, Jacob van 104, 108
Capelle, Rochus van de 128
Casanova, G. G. 162
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor 46
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 46, 53, 61, 64, 79
Charles II, King of England 137
Christiaens, Elsje 97–9, 105, 114–15, 118, 125–6, 127, 132
Cornelis, Meyns 48–53
Corver, Gerrit 177–8
Cosman, Joel 254–5
Coster, Charles de 204
Cruijff, Johan 237
Cuypers, P. J. H. 207
Da Costa 196
Daignan, Guillaume 172
Davids, Catryn (“The Northern Cat”) 163
Deken, Aagje 153
Dekker, Maurits 225
Derk, Joan 185
Descartes, René 100, 108
Dijkhuis, Henk 232
Dionysius the Carthusian 47
Dirckszoon Bardes, William 78
Dircszoon, Reyer 34
Dircx, Geertje 129, 130, 131
Dirkszoon, Albert 62
Domela Nieuwenhuis, Ferdinand 216, 225, 233
Doorn, Johnny van (“Johnny the Selfkicker”) 289
Dord, Pieter van (“The Burgomaster”) 175–6
Douwes Dekker, Eduard (“Multatuli”) 195, 200, 210, 233
Drongelen, Wouter van 18
du Jardin, Card 99
Duijn, Roel van 297
Dusard, Johan 148
Eeghen, Isabella van 97
Eesteren, Cornelis van 239, 240
Eggert, William 37
Eichman, Adolf 267
Ekker, A. 248, 249
Engels, Friedrich 198
Eugenius, Prince of Savoy 162
Eyck, Aldo van 301
Fagel, Hendrik 177
Falck, Arie 182, 193–4
Flinck, Govert 99, 128, 129, 132
Floris V, Count of Holland 15, 18
Frank, Anne 260, 267
Frederick III, Emperor 54
Frederick Hendrick, Prince 122–3, 124
Frederick Hendrik, Prince 203
Frederick William II, King of Prussia 186
Geel, Jan van 68
Geelvinck, Nicolaas 172
Geerke, Johan 217, 218
Gelder, Nelis de (“Hadjememaar”) 229–30
Gerbrandszoon, Egbert 41, 61, 95, 170
Gerhard, H. 216
Gödecke, Christain 198
Goedbeleid, Hendrik 67–8
Goessens, Jan 62
Goncourt, E. and J. de 192
Gouw,Ter 231
Graaf, Dirck Janszoon 111
Graaf, W.A. de 246, 247
Graeff, Andries de 114, 116, 123, 129
Grootveld, Robert Jasper 289, 291
Haan, Lady de 148
“Hadjememaar” see Gelder, Nelis de
Hall, Anne Maurits van 196–7, 220, 271
Attie van 270, 272, 273
Floris van 196–7
Floris Adriaan van 197, 220, 226
Gijs van 271–3, 279, 287, 292–3, 294, 296
Johanna (Hanna) van 197, 220
Maurits (I) van 194, 196, 197
Maurits (II) van 197, 220, 226, 271
Suze van 196–7, 220, 271
Walraven (Wallie) van 270–3, 275, 277, 279, 280
Hanke, Karl 198
Heel, S. A. C. Dudok van 126
Heijden, Jan van der 108
Helling, Captain 55, 87
Hendricx, Annetje (“Anna in the Stall”) 163
Henry, Prince of Wales 121
Herbert, Zbigniew 75
Hertzberger, Herman 301
Hillegaersberch, William van 45
Hilmers, Hendrik 186
Hinlopen, Jan Jacobszoon 129
Hoekert, Kees 295
Holst, Henriette Ronald 225
Hondecoeter, Melchior 175
Hooft, Hester 162
Hoogh, Pieter de 99, 192
Hoornik, Ed 249
Houbraken, Arnoldus 113, 119, 128, 130
Houtman, Cornelis 116
Hubrechtszoon, Jan 78
Huges, Bart 289
Huizinga, Johan 42, 47, 63
Huten, Gaspard van 103
Huydecooper, Jan 129
Huygens, Constantijn 135
Ijsbrants, Jan 62
Ireland, Samuel 168
Jacobs, Eduard 221
Jacobszoon, Dirck 41
Jacobszoon, Laurens 76, 77
Jacobszoon, Wouter 70–4, 76, 84, 85, 86–9, 91
Jans, Aagje 66
Jans, Anne 51
Jansdochter, Cornelia 130
Janszoon, Broer 103
Janszoon Peggedochter, Gerrit 41, 48, 61, 95, 170
“Johnny the Selfkicker” see Doorn, Johnny van
Jones, Paul 183
Jong, Lou de 272, 280
Juliana, Princess (later Queen) 244, 295
Kaal, Frederik 184–5
Kaasjager, H. A. J. G. 286–7
Kampen, Jacob van 68
Karl, Duke of Gelre 59
Keppler, Arie 237
Keyser, Hendrick de 108, 144
Keyser, Pieter 116
Klaassen, Adriaan 49
Klaaszoon, Jacob 62
Kok, Hans 305
Kraan, William 256
Krayenhoff, Doctor 187
Kuyper, Abraham 221, 224
Lambrecht the Baker 26
Lammers, Griet 158
Lammers, Han 301
Lanzmann, Claude 264, 266
Lastman, Pieter 109, 110
Laurens, Catalyn (“Sweetie Cunt”) 163
Lee, William 183
Leeuw, Mozes de 234
Lennep, Jacob de Neufville van 142
Levi, Primo 268
Lingnebach, Johannes 99
Locke, John 108
Loon, Nicolaas van 115, 128
Louis XIV, King of France 135, 136
Lublink, Christoffel 174
Luther, Martin 52, 61, 62
Mamadouh, Virginie 306
Marken, Jacob van 49
Marquette, Lady de 149
Marx, Karl 198, 216
Mattos, Texeira de 142
Maurik, Justus van 190, 191, 198, 206–7
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 45, 46, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60
Maximilian of Austria see Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
May, Job 193
Méchoulan, Henri 107–8, 139
Medici, Marie de’ 121
Meershoek, Guus 282
Mens, Ko (“Bokkebek”) 217
Menzel,Maarten 300
Metsu, Gabriel 99
Meulenbelt, Anja 297
Miranda, Bram 246, 247
Salomon (“Monne”) de 237, 238, 241, 243, 245–7, 257, 308
Moryson, Fynes 89
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 149
“Multatuli” see Douwes Dekker, Eduard
Mundy, Peter 109
Nak, Piet 256
Nassau, Jan van 22
Neufville, Jean 183
Leendert Pieter de 166
Nieuwenboer, D. 219
Nieuwendijk, Mat van den 175
Obisy, Anthony 127
Oldenbarneveldt, Jan van 122
Ottens,Wijntje 82, 84
Overhoff, C. F. 277
Philip, Duke of Burgundy 56, 57
Philip II, King of Spain 71, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 91, 181
Philip IV, King of Spain 123, 135
Pieters, Griet 51
Pieters, Lijsbeth and Jennetje 51
Pieterszoon, Pieter 83
Plancius, Peter 116
Polak, Henri 232–3
Polak,Wim 304
Post, Johannes 279
Potter, Paulus 109
Pieter 109
Presser, Jacques 234, 259, 261, 262, 269
Raap, Daniel 172, 173, 177, 178–9
Randwijk, Henk van 268
Reael, Laurens Jacobszoon 84, 95
Laurens Laurenszoon 95, 109, 153
Regnard, Jean François 162
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 97, 109–10, 112–14, 116, 119–20, 123, 126, 127, 128–33, 138, 143, 145
Reyerszoon, Simon 34
Riethof, Huib 302
Rip, Jan Corver 168
Ris, Klaas 200
Roegholt, Richter 242, 252
Roel, Jacob 48
Sade, Marquis de 156
Sajet, Ben 252
Samkalden, Ivo 296
Sarphati, Samuel 201–4
Schaefer, Jan 303
Schama, Simon 163
Schimmelpenninck, Luud 294, 295
Schimmelpenninck, Rutger Jan 187
Schreuder, W H. 277, 278
Schwartz, Gary 110, 128
Sijes, Ben 253, 257
Simon, Master 49
Simons, Menno 68
Simonszoon, Tideman 57
Six, Jan 110, 116, 128, 131, 168
Sjakoo (Shako) 157–8, 198
Slater, Philip 288
Soetendorp, Jacob 234
Sophie, Queen 198
Spieghel, Dirck 115, 128
Spinoza, Baruch de 108
Staets, Hendrick Jacobszoon 112
Stalpaert, Daniel 108
Standent, Jan 163
Steen, Jan 29, 145
Stoffels, Hendrickje 99, 114, 129, 130, 131, 133, 144
Stolk, Rob 288, 289, 291
Strijen, Nicolaas van 148
Stuyvesant, Peter 117
Swammerdam, Jan 108
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon 108
Tak, P. L. 214, 233
Taverne, Ed 111, 112
Thijn, Ed van 262, 305
Thijsse, Jacob P. 233
Traese, Madame 162
Treub, William 214, 215, 223
Trip family 110, 116, 132
Tulp, Nicolaes 116, 129, 144
Uylenburg, Hendrick 110, 119, 129, 141
Saskiavan 110, 113, 114, 119, 128, 129, 130, 132
Uytenbogaert, Joannus 110
Veen, Gerrit van der 273, 279
Veer, Hendrick de 157
Vega, Manuel Rodrigues de 127
Verhulst, Rombout 144
Vermeer, Jan 29, 141, 145
Vingboons, Philip 144
Vinkeles, Reiner 148
Visscher, Roemer 93–4
Vlissingen, Paul van 195, 235
Vlugt, William de 237, 257
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 180
Vondel, Joost van den 13, 15, 99, 144, 170
Voort, Cornelis van der 95, 109
Vos, Cataleyne de 93
Wagenaar, Gerben 272, 277
Wagenaar, Jan 9, 48, 65, 125
Wallenstein, Immanuel 121
Weber, Carl von 203
Weggelaar, Jan 296
Wibaut, F. M. 224–5, 233, 236, 237, 240–1, 245–6, 308
Wichman, Erich 230
Wijk, Hein van 249
Wijnkoop, David 225, 233
Wilhelmina, Princess 186, 194
Willems, Grietje 51
Willemszoon, Cornelis 49
William III, Count of Holland 18, 30
William IV, Count of Holland 32
William, Count of Nassau 124
William I, King of Orange 194
William III, King of Orange 198, 202, 216
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 76, 84
William II, Prince of Orange 122–3, 124
William III, Prince of Orange 135, 136, 137
William IV, Prince of Orange 176, 177–8
William V, Prince of Orange 176, 185, 186, 187, 194
Wolfert 9
Wolff, Bertje 153
Wolff, Sam de 233
Wouwerman, Flip 175
Zesen, Philip von 102
Zola, Émile 233
Zuurbier, Bertus 230
Zwingli, Ulrich 63
Zwol, Hildebrand van 62
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Admiralty 108
Aemstel castle 15, 18, 38
Amboplein 243
Amestelle 11–12
Amstel 8–11, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 25, 27, 36, 37, 57 60, 73, 86, 94, 105, 138, 146, 150, 154, 156, 166, 185, 187, 202, 204, 286
Station 165, 267
Amsteldijk 213
Amstelveen 109
Amstelveenseweg 220
Amsterdam Athenaeum Illustre 138, 220
see also University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Historical Museum 40, 53, 92
Amsterdam Noord (North) 243
Amsterdam Oost (East) 243, 263
Amsterdam Oud-Zuid 210
Amsterdam Zuid (South) 109, 234, 244, 263
Amsterdam-Rhine Canal 206, 285, 308
Amsterdamse Bos 240
Anjelierstraat 133
Anne Frank House 294
Artis Zoo 107
Barnde canal 133
Bartolotti Huis 108
Beemstermeer 11, 146
Beethovenstraat 244
Bellamystraat 210
Berlagebrug 251
Bethaniënstraat 44
Beurs 108
Beurs van Berlage (Stock Exchange) 215, 220, 221
Bickers Island 123
Bijlmer 298–300, 301, 302, 308
Bijlmermeer 11, 288, 300
Bilderdijkstraat 304
Binnengasthuis 73, 167, 255
Binnengasthuisterrein 38
Binnenkant 213
Blauwbrug 255
Blauwburgwal 250
Blauwhodenveem 224
Bloedstraat 44
Bloemendaal 109
Bloemgracht 110
Bloemstraat 133
“Bloodstained House” 134
Boomstraat 217, 218
Bos 240, 244, 286
Bosplaan 250
Botermarkt (Butter Market) 138, 149, 173
see also Rembrandtplein
Breestraat 109, 113, 119, 130, 131
see also Jodenbreestraat
Brink 237
Buiksloot 237
Buitengasthuis 167
Buitenkant 100, 164
Buitensingel 146
see also Stadhouderskade
Buitenveldert 109, 240
Burgwal 94
Butter Market see Botermarkt
Central Station 21, 27, 35, 66, 101, 200, 206, 207, 208, 224, 248, 262, 265, 286, 300, 301
Churchilllaan 235
City Exchange Bank 102–3
Cliostraat 250
Concertgebouw 200, 210, 245
Corn Exchange 102
Dam 13, 36–9, 42, 46, 50, 51, 55, 56, 65–9, 74, 84, 87, 94, 97, 99, 102, 103, 143, 145, 148, 168, 185, 188, 191, 194–5, 198, 200, 221, 279, 295, 296
see also Plaetse; Waag (on the Dam)
Damrak 27, 35, 43, 55, 56, 74, 76, 89, 98, 101, 102, 176, 178, 191, 204, 208, 220
Damstraat 30, 77, 109
Daniel Meijerplein 109
Dapper 210
Dapperbuurt 300
De Rijp 31
Diemen 11, 85
Diemerdijk 59
Diemermeer 73
Dirk van Hasseltway 14
Doelen 65
Doelenburg 13
Droogbak 205
Dutch Maritime Museum 108
Duvelshoek 231
Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat 304
Elandsgracht 157, 198, 266, 300
Entrepotdok 195
Fantasia 297
Ferdinand Bolstraat 202
Fort Sint-Eustatius 183
Franse Pad 164 231
see also Willemsstraat
Frederiksplein 202, 204, 227
Garnalendoelen 149, 168
Gebed zonder End 44
Gein 146
Gekroonde Naarheid 164
Geldersekade 36, 59, 93, 286, 287
Geuzenveld 240, 257, 286
Goudsbloemgracht 208
see also Willemsstraat
Grimburgwal 38
Grote Club 246, 279
Haarlemmerdijk 11, 74, 158, 231
Haarlemmermeer 11, 236
Haarlemmerplein 149
Haarlemmerpoort 81, 87, 231
Haarlemmerstraat 117, 162
Haarlemmertrekvaart 146
Halsteeg 77, 78
Haringpakkerstoren 66
Hartenstraat 148
Heiligeweg 45, 223
Herengracht 7, 94, 106, 107, 108, 110, 134, 148, 150, 155, 164, 220, 250, 304
Herenmarkt 106
Hirschgebouw 289
Hoedemakerspad 150
Hoge Sluis 154, 156, 187
Hollandsche Schouwburg 262
Holy Place 45, 50, 60, 61, 69, 73
Hoogstraat 164
Huis ter Hart 73
Huis van Bewaring 280
Huis van Mirakelen 164
IJ 7, 9, 11, 14, 35–6, 43, 54, 56, 58, 59, 94, 99, 101, 123, 124, 134, 148, 150, 156, 166, 192, 193, 195, 206, 207, 235, 257, 309
tunnel 244, 288, 300, 301
Ijmuiden 235, 250
Jan Lykenstraat 304
Jodenbreestraat 99, 109, 160, 232, 274, 284, 301
see also Breestraat; Sint Antonisdijk
Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 231
Joodsde Invalide 244, 263
Jordaan 51, 106, 110, 112, 132, 164, 182, 191, 216, 217, 224, 230, 231, 232, 243, 254, 255, 275, 298, 300, 307, 308
Kalverstraat 17, 25, 38, 42, 43, 44, 45, 56, 94, 131, 150, 155, 197, 204, 221, 223, 231
Karseboom 221
Kattenburg 159, 177, 178, 182, 193, 207, 231, 255, 262, 300, 307
Kattenburgerbrug 186
Kattenburgergracht 294
Keizersgracht 106, 110, 112, 115, 116, 134, 142, 148, 164, 174, 179, 181, 235, 304
Keizersgrachtkerk 221
Kerkstraat 197
Kinker 210
Kloveniersburgwal 36, 55, 91, 286, 287
Koestraat 44
Koningsplein 197
Koornmetershuisje 55
Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 289
Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 256
Landswerf 193
Langebrug 50
Lastage 8, 59, 80
Lastageweg 238
Lauriergracht 99
Leidsegracht 107, 150, 277
Levantkade 284
Liedseplein 207
Liedsestraat 7, 45, 197
Lievertje 290–1
Lijnbaansgracht 286, 287
Lindengracht 217, 218, 219
Lindenstraat 217, 218
Lommer 240, 244, 286
Lommertsbrug 50
Maagdenhuis 296
Manège 210
Marken 94, 159
Marnixplatsoen 296
Marnixstraat 209, 279
Merwede Channel 206
Monnickendam 51
Monnikenstraat 44
Montelbaanstoren 58, 59, 161
Montelbaanstraat 238
Muiderstraatweg 279
Munt 51, 55
see also Regulierspoort
Munttoren 58
Museum Amstelkring 143
Naarden 57
“Naatje” see National Monument
Nassau 106
National Monument (“Naatje”) 38, 102, 200
National Theatre see Hollandsche Schouwburg
Nederlandse Bank 202
Nes 44, 149, 298
Nieuwe Brug 17, 43, 101
Nieuwe Dijk 38
Nieuwe Herengracht 160
Nieuwe Keizersgracht 160, 261, 266
Nieuwe Kerk 17, 43, 44, 50, 82, 87, 90, 104, 143, 221
Nieuwe Nonnen ter Lely 73
Nieuwe Prlnsengracht 160
Nieuwe Stadsherberg 206
Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 232, 239
Nieuwe Zijde 17
Nieuwe-Amstel 19
Nieuwendam 237
Nieuwendijk 17, 25, 26, 38, 93, 115, 148, 187
Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal 36, 55
Nieuwezijds Kolk 7, 14, 55
Nieuwezijds Voorburg 149
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 55, 208, 213, 221, 248, 291, 296
Nieuwmarkt 8, 58, 82, 94, 113, 159, 188, 228, 275, 300–3, 307
Nieuwmarktbuurt 298, 301
Nieuwpoort 59
Noorderkerk 106, 108
Noordermarkt 113, 217, 218, 256
North Sea Canal 206
Olympiaplein 238, 263, 266
Olympic Stadium 296
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwensteeg 38
Oostenburg 159
Oosterpark 210
Oostindisch Huis (East India House) 116, 120
Oostzaan 237
Osdorp 11, 240, 286
Oud Diemen 11
Oude Hoogstraat 116
Oude Kerk 17, 19, 37, 38, 43, 44, 45, 56, 57, 61, 82, 84, 99, 132, 149, 178–9
Oude Schans 59, 232, 301
Oude Waal 35
Oude Zijde 17
Oudekerk bridge 62
Oudekerksplein 7, 30, 179
Oudenbrug 74
Ouder-Amstel 11, 19
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel 12, 15, 59, 93, 105, 124, 156
Ouderkerksplein 230
Ouderzijds Voorburgwal 27, 30, 70, 85, 131, 188
Ouderzijds Wal 35
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 36, 44, 55, 69
Oudezijds Herenlogement 178
Overtoom 45, 86, 208, 304
Palace of People’s Industry see Paleis voor Volksvlijt
Paleis on the Dam 287, 295
see also Town Hall
Paleis voor Volksvlijt 200, 202–4, 220, 226–7, 241
Palmgracht 232, 307
Pampus 150
Papaverweg 235
Paradiso 297
Pijlsteeg 77, 109
Pijp, De 129, 202, 205, 209, 213, 221–3, 234, 300, 307
Pijpenmarkt 213
Plaetse 36, 37, 68, 90
see also Dam
Plantage Kerklaan 273
Plantage Middenlaan 213, 262
Plantage, De 107, 182, 209, 210, 234
Plan-Zuid 234
Polder Hospital 288
Polderweg 263, 266
Prins Hendrikkade 100, 304
Prinsengracht 106, 110, 191, 218, 224
Prinsenhof 188
Prinsenstraat 218
Purmerend 307
Purmermeer 11, 146
Raadhuisstraat 106, 287, 294, 295
Raamgracht 286, 287
Raampoort 216
Ransdorp 31
Rapenburg 94, 159, 166
Rasphuis 171–2
Recht Boomsloot 302
Reguliersgracht 138, 185, 208, 229
Regulierspoort (Reguliers gate) 51, 87
see also Munt
Rembrandt Theatre 244
Rembrandthuis 99, 110
Rembrandtplein 57, 145, 173, 197, 221, 229, 244, 254
see also Botermarkt
Rietlanden 224
Rijksmuseum 95, 127, 200, 210
Rijksverzekeringsbank 244
Rijnstraat 255
Ringdijk 267
Rokin 17, 35, 50, 60, 102, 158, 208, 286, 287
Royal Palace 103
Rozengracht 99, 132, 208, 300
Rozenoord 279
Ruigoord 11
Saint Olaf Chapel 62
Sarphatipark 263
Sarphatistraat 225
Schaepmanstraat 305
Schellingwoude 11
Schermermeer 11
Schiphol 235, 236, 250, 274, 282
Schreierstoren 13, 58, 116, 287
Schulpburg 164
Singel 36, 45, 55, 94, 149, 175, 286
Sint-Agnieten monastery 70, 73
Sint-Antoniespoort (Sint-Antonius gate) 58, 59, 109
Sint-Antoniessluis 302
Sint-Antoniesstraat 301
Sint-Antonisdijk 86, 109
see also Jodenbreestraat
Sint-Luciens monastery 87
Sloten 11, 45
Sloterdijk 13, 85
Slotermeer 240, 307
Sloterplas 240
Slotervaart 240, 286
Spaarndammerbuurt 236, 243
Spaarnwoude 11
Spiegelgracht 208
Spiegelschool 279
Spiegelstraat 127
Spinhuis 171–2
Spui 290, 291
Spuistraat 36
Staatsliedenbuurt 305, 306
Stadhouderskade 106, 146, 213, 230, 279
see also Buitensingel
Stock Exchange see Beurs van Berlage
Swammerdam 209
Swammerdambuurt 205, 234
Swijgt Utrecht 58
Swindenstraat, van 210
Temple K 289
Timber Harbour 243
Town Hall 16, 37, 39, 46, 47, 50, 55, 67–8, 79, 87, 88, 102, 103, 104, 127, 128, 132, 143, 149, 169, 172–2, 185, 187, 188, 194–5, 224, 244
see also Paleis on the Dam
Transvaalbuurt 234
Trippenhuis 91
Tuschinsky Theatre 232
Uilenburg 94, 159
Uilenburgerstraat 232, 239
University of Amsterdam 116, 138, 149, 252, 265
see also Amsterdam Atheneum Illustre
Vecht 146
Victorieplein 235, 238, 263
Vijzelgracht 201, 208
Vinkenstraat 81
Vloonburg 94
see also Waterlooplein
Volewijk 73, 97, 114, 115
Volkspark 217
Vondelpark 109, 202, 210, 229, 296
Vondelstraat 210, 304
Vossius Gymnasium 252
Vreeland 22
Vrije Universiteit 221
Waag (on the Dam) 87, 102, 175, 188
Waag (on the Nieuwmarkt) 58, 59, 228, 287
see also Sint-Antoniespoort
Waalstraat 235
Warmoesgracht 208
Warmoesstraat 7, 17, 27, 37, 38, 81, 94, 99, 126, 191, 218, 220, 278
Watergraaf 146
Watergraafsmeer 185, 187
Waterlooplein 94, 232, 254, 255
see also Vloonburg
Weespeerstraat 9
Weesperplein 207, 225, 263
Weesperpoort 187
Weesperpoortstation 207
Weesperstraat 284, 300
Weesperzijde 205, 213, 233, 251
Westerkerk 106, 108, 110, 133, 295
Westindisch Huis (West India House) 117, 120
Westzaan 85
Weteringplatsoen 279
Weteringschans 279, 304
Weteringstraat 127
Willemsparkweg 210
Willemsstraat 164, 208, 230
see also Franse Pad; Goudsbloemgracht
Willibrordusstraat 202
Windmolenstraat 26
Wittenburg 159, 300
Zandhoek 100
Zaterdagse Brug 217
Zeedijk 11, 26, 231, 275
Zoutsteeg 65, 66
Zuiderkerk 8, 105, 108, 109
Zwanenburg 13
Zwanenburgwal 109
HISTORY BEGINS BENEATH the roots of trees. That is certainly true of Amsterdam, a city that grew up on the IJfn1 and sank, only to rise again.
