Zuiderkerk from steelmaster bridge in Amsterdam by Alex van der Aa

About "Zuiderkerk from steelmaster bridge in Amsterdam"

by Alex van der Aa

About the artwork

Zuiderkerk from Staalmeestersbrug in Amsterdam.

The Zuiderkerk is the first church in Amsterdam designed for Protestant worship. The church was built near the Sint Antoniesbreestraat in de Lastage, a neighbourhood that was added to the city at the end of the 16th century. Nowadays this is the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood. The church is located at the Zandstraat no. 17.

The Staalmeestersbrug (bridge 227) is a drawbridge in Amsterdam-Centre.

It spans the Groenburgwal and is located in Staalstraat, which lies on both sides of the Groenburgwal. It is next to bridge 226 the only bridge over the canal. The bridge, itself a municipal monument since 1995, is surrounded by municipal and national monuments, but there is also relative new construction here. The bridge is a tourist attraction, but not always for the classical bridge itself. From the bridge there is a beautiful view of the tower of the Zuiderkerk, which has been recorded by various artists. The most famous among them is without a doubt Claude Monet, who painted it in De Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam seen from the Groenburgwal and en passant also took the bridge, Monet would make a series of Amsterdam paintings. More recent is the wish of couples among tourists to hang so-called love locks on the bridge's ropes. The construction of the bridge, however, is not resistant to the heavy metal that will hang from the bridge; the bridge is therefore regularly stripped of the locks.