Above right: View of a street designed to point to the West church, allowing inhabitants to see the time of day - since inhabitants had no money for clocks at home.
Folk culture in a densely populated area.
Everybody knew everybody, in street life.
Low level of peat ground: wetness and moisture all over.
Extreme Poverty 1650-1930.
Around 1600: Illegal houses were built here against city regulations
From 1650-1930: Overcrowded, worse than a Dickens story
'Hofjes' housing courts for poor men and women
Music culture: operatic singing in cafes with 'vibrato'
Plans to raze the Jordaan area completely after 1960 and to build high-rise apartments
Instead: Architectural renewal, regeneration
1886 Riots: illegal eel catching against police rules
1934 Workmans strike, blockades and street battles
North Church: simple dignity for the Protestant Working class
Ultra modern Design store
The Ice Cream Store that broke all rules
Above: a very basic kitchen in a poor Jordaan house.
Dutch Reformed (Protestant) North church. Next door is the most famous cafe for a large piece of Apple Pie. Husle and bustle on market days, Monday + Saturday.
Henk Henriet, an active in WW2 resistance fighter. He made this sculpture of a very strong Jordaan Folk Woman who had to weather the crisis years of the 1930s.
Henk Henriet, an active in WW2 resistance fighter. He made this sculpture of a very strong Jordaan Folk Woman who had to weather the crisis years of the 1930s.
Henk Henriet, an active in WW2 resistance fighter. He made this sculpture of a very strong Jordaan Folk Woman who had to weather the crisis years of the 1930s.
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Updated 3 Nov 14 2014. Update 17 february, 2017.
