Canal houses on the Damrak in Amsterdam during the blue hour
Originally, the Damrak was the name of the straight stretch (a 'rak' is a straight stretch of water) of the Amstel River between the Plaetse (the name of today's Dam Square) and the IJ. Via a lock at the Plaetse, the water flowed from the Rokin into the Damrak and then out into the IJ. Here lay part of the old port of Amsterdam. Where Central Station now stands, there was a row of mooring posts in the IJ, to which larger ships could moor. The quay, which only runs on one side of the water, was called "Op 't Water" until the filling in of southern parts of the Damrak, between the Dam and the Oudebrugsteeg, in 1845 and in 1883. Between 1845 and 1903, Zocher's Stock Exchange stood on the site where the Bijenkorf now stands.
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