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The Blauwbrug (English: Blue bridge) is a historic bridge in Amsterdam, Netherlands over the river Amstel. It connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area, and lies south to the Stopera.
The bridge owes its name to a wooden "blue bridge" that was there from around 1600 but no longer exists and which was painted the characteristic blue of the Dutch flag. It kept the name after 1883 when it was replaced by the spans of a new bridge which is inspired by the architecture of several of the bridges over the Seine in Paris such as Pont Alexandre III.
The stone bridge has three openings for ships and is richly decorated. The bases are formed like ships' bows and on top columns with leaf-motifs, masks and finally the Imperial Crown of Austria, as also present in the city's coat of arms. Also the lantern poles have shipping decorations and the lanterns themselves are again in the shape of crowns. The bridge carries a road which is also used by the tramway.
The Blauwbrug (English: Blue bridge) is a historic bridge in Amsterdam, Netherlands over the river Amstel. It connects the Rembrandtplein area with the...
crossing the river, among which are the Berlagebrug, Magere Brug, and Blauwbrug. In the city center, the river is connected to several city canals, which...
View of the Stopera (left), behind the Blauwbrug (blue bridge), where the Amsterdam city hall and opera house are located, and the H'ART Museum (right)...
wars. The crown can be seen on the spire of Westerkerk and adorning the Blauwbrug. Citations Leithe-Jasper 2004, p. 14. Kunsthistorisches Museum 1991, pp...
Protestant church Westerkerk is crowned with the Imperial Crown and the bridge Blauwbrug is decorated with several Imperial Crowns. The supporters of the escutcheon...
Regulierbreestraat and connect Rembrandtplein to the Stopera, northwest across the Blauwbrug (Blue Bridge) on the Amstel River, Dam Square to the northeast, and Amsterdam...
an island. The Waterlooplein was designed in the resulting space. The Blauwbrug dates from 1884. After the Shoah, there was hardly anyone left to return...
Queen's inauguration took place. Clashes also happened in and around Blauwbrug, Rokin and Vondelstraat. One of the protesters, Karel Fassotte, claimed...
Magere Brug is probably the most famous drawbridge in Amsterdam. The Blauwbrug, which connects the Rembrandtplein area with the Waterlooplein area. The...
11 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021. "Demonstranten opgepakt op Blauwbrug in Amsterdam". nos.nl (in Dutch). 12 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January...
and a little later the 's Gravelandse Veer, between Groenburgwal and Blauwbrug, was compressed. Around that time the name Groenburgwal was born; green...
the corner with the Leprozengracht. On the right a small part of the Blauwbrug. c. 1659 The Oudezijds Huiszittenhuis on the Leprozengracht with the Arsenaal...
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