Netherlands Photos by Hetty
27 June 2024 – A day trip by train from Gouda
Amersfoort has canals, medieval gates and merchants’ houses with pulleys, market places and a buttermarket with scales.
There are two moats. Stars on the Google map show where the remaining medieval watergates are.
Left – Outside the station. How do you find your bike? Right – This was built after WW2
Wooden facade (red) converted to brick in 1645
Fish market 1657
Left – The first city wall was converted to houses (wall houses) when the second city wall was built. This became a merchant’s house in 1414. It was a spinning mill in the 16th century. Right – A house built in 1780
Saint Elizabeth Hospital from 1578 until 1907
Right – Bollenburg was built in 1398, converted from the city wall. The founder of the Dutch East India Company (started in 1602) was born here in 1547. It became a spinning mill then an inn
Monnikendam- water gate c. 1420 – part of the second city wall
Left – Thief’s Tower – a prison from 1434 to 1889. Right – Built in 1560, redesigned in 1776
A city gate by 1381, where cattle were penned before being sold at the market
Former warehouses with pulleys.
Left – 1687. Right – tobacco store. When tobacco production was banned in 1604 in UK, some farmers moved to the Netherlands.
Black Kettlle Almshouses 1525 around a courtyard with a chapel. Still 48 houses
Part of the second city walls, built 1380-1450, which had eight gates. Restored in the 1970s.
16th century gabled stone houses, with wall plaques
A crown and measuring rod
A candle basket
Left – The only house in the canal – a tea house
Left – One of the oldest buildings of the first city wall, now apartments
Built 1520/1530, a pub from 1755
St George’s church
The buttermarket 1608, by the church in the huge marketplace
Left – dated 1664. Right – built c.1540, now a museum.
A canal dug in 1300, with a land and water gate built 1380-1425, part of the second city wall. The gates were raised and lowered by a treadmill
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