Amstelveenseweg 27/01/2024 11h27 Applied art on the corner of the Stadionplein and the long Amstelveenseweg. This block with bricks and holes is also a paradise for insects.
Amstelveenseweg Amstelveenseweg has traditionally been the most important connection between Amsterdam and Amstelveen. The road starts as a city street at the Overtoomse Sluis and from there runs in a southerly direction to the Haarlemmermeercircuit. There is a wide central reservation from here to Stadionplein. Beyond the Stadionplein, the road continues towards Amstelveen. Beyond the municipal border with Amstelveen on the Kalfjeslaan, the road on Amstelveen's territory is called Amsterdamseweg. The Keizer Karelweg is an extension of this road, at the point where a sharp bend to the right is made. The road then continues west for a short distance, after which the road curves to the left in a southerly direction to a viaduct over the A9.
During the reclamation of the peat land to the west of the Amstel in the 12th and 13th centuries, the newly reclaimed land on the west side was protected by a rear quay against flooding from the swampy land to the west. From the northern end of the Schinkel to the south, a quay was built in a southern direction to Amstelveen. This quay was called the Veendijk.
The name Amstelveensweg was introduced in Amsterdam in 1898, and was referred to in Amstelveen as Amstelveenseweg, Dorpsstraat, Handweg and Bovenkerkerweg. The road was one of the most important connecting roads from Amsterdam to the south of Holland and in the 17th century formed part of the Postweg from Amsterdam via Amstelveen to Alphen aan den Rijn, Leiden and beyond.
Until 1896 the road lay entirely within the territory of the then municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel and had a rural character. In the northern part of the Schinkel some inns and early industry (cotton printing) developed.
The section between the Overtoomse Sluis and the Vondelpark was called Dubbel Buurt before the street was widened in the 1920s. The neighborhood was created in the seventeenth century as a final resting and transfer point on the route from Rotterdam and Leiden to Amsterdam.
To the south of this, buildings were mainly on the east side of the road where a series of farms stood.
The road is the eastern dam of the Schinkel and the Nieuwe Meer and has traditionally also formed the border between Amstelland and Rijnland. To the east of this was the Binnendijkse Buitenvelderse polder. The Buitenveldert neighborhood, built in the 1960s, is named after the hamlet near the current Buitenveldert Cemetery.
Since 1921, the section between the current Ringweg Zuid and the Kalfjeslaan has also been part of Amsterdam. The buildings along this part of Amstelveenseweg, especially the west side, are for the most part much older than the Buitenveldert district. To the west lay the Buitendijkse Buitenvelderse polder and the Rietwijkeroorder polder, where the Amsterdamse Bos was built after the peat in the 1930s.
As Amsterdam increased in size, Amstelveenseweg was built further and further in a southerly direction from 1896 onwards. The buildings of the current Oud-Zuid district arose from the end of the 19th century along Amstelveenseweg. The House of Detention II was built in 1890, Willemspark station of the Haarlemmermeer railway line was built in 1915, and since 1933 has been called Haarlemmermeerstation. Between 1919 and 1931, the Sint-Agneskerk was built on the corner with Cornelis Krusemanstraat. In 1950, a roundabout, the Haarlemmermeercircuit, was built at the site of the intersection. The buildings between Havenstraat and Stadionplein appeared in the 1920s.
In 1913, a stadium called Het Nederlandsch Sportpark was built on the corner of Amstelveenseweg and today's Stadionweg, which was part of an extensive Olympic site during the 1928 Olympic Games, on which the Olympic Stadium was built from 1926 to 1928. The stadium from 1913 was demolished after the 1929 Games to make way for the Stadionbuurt.
South of the Ringspoorbaan, near the Amstelveenseweg, the VU Hospital (now VU medical center) was built in the 1960s and the ING House diagonally opposite it from 1999 to 2002.
In the 1960s, a complex of the waterworks company was constructed near De Boelelaan. One of the Amsterdam water towers has also stood here since 1965.
Close to the municipal boundary on the Kalfjeslaan is the Saint Augustine Church.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, part of the current Amsterdamseweg, which now lies in the municipality of Amstelveen, was also called Amstelveenseweg. At the time, there were few buildings and the road ran within the municipality of Nieuwer-Amstel in the direction of the village of Amstelveen. Only when the buildings in Amstelveen increased and the road came to lie within the built-up area of Amstelveen, the name was changed to Amsterdamseweg. That is why the street name Amstelveenseweg is on the caption on old postcards of views of buildings on what is nowadays called the Amsterdamseweg. [ Wikipedia 2020 ]
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