The Oudehaven is one of Rotterdam's oldest harbours. It is located in the city centre, southeast of Rotterdam Blaak station. After the Rotte was dammed up near the Hoogstraat, the Middeldam, a stub of river remained south of it with a connection to the Maas, surrounded by marshland. The first jetty was constructed here around 1350. Today, it is a well-known and busy entertainment area with cafés and restaurants with terraces on the waterfront close to the famous cube houses and Europe's first skyscraper the White House and the adjacent Marine Museum. The Hogeschool Rotterdam also has a branch nearby. The Oudehaven is not Rotterdam's oldest harbour; that was actually a jetty in the canal south of the Middeldam, later Hoogstraat, which canal we still partly know today as Steigersgracht, but which at the time was "appropriately called Steyger"
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