Gerrit van der Veenstraat - Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Gerrit van der Veenstraat 26/04/2020 15h28
Spring in Amsterdam Zuid. The Gerrit van der Veenstraat corner Albrecht Dürerstraat.
Gerrit van der Veenstraat
The Gerrit van der Veenstraat is a street in Amsterdam South. The street is about one kilometer long and runs west from Apollolaan to the sports park on Olympiaplein. The street crosses an important traffic artery, the Beethovenstraat, where tram lines 5 and 24 run. The street also crosses Minervalaan towards the end.
Despite the width of the street and the direction of travel in two sides, the street is not a through road. The street has a typical building style in Amsterdam School style. Some blocks are designed by architect F.A. Warners. The street consists of residential blocks with luxury apartments and several series of semi-detached villas. The street mainly has a residential function, only a number of shops can be found around Beethovenstraat.
Originally, the street Euterpestraat, named after Euterpe, was called the muse of flute playing and lyrical poetry in Greek mythology.
The street was named in 1945, just after the end of the German occupation in World War II, after the Dutch sculptor and resistance hero Gerrit van der Veen (1902-1944).
During the occupation, the former headquarters of the girls' HBS was located in this street, the headquarters (two buildings) of the Dutch section of the German Sicherheitsdienst. From 1942 the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung was also located here, which organized the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands. Many resistance fighters and Jewish Amsterdammers were brought to the building and tortured there or transported to concentration camps, almost always Westerbork. "Naar de Euterpestraat" therefore did not bode well, hence the name change.
These buildings were bombed on Sunday November 26, 1944. 24 aircraft (type Hawker Typhoon) of the British Air Force (RAF) carried out a submerged attack with missiles and bombs. Thirty residential houses were affected. 69 people died, of which only four were SD. The Zentralstelle was half destroyed. The SD headquarters was so damaged that the SD had to move to hotel Apollofirst (at Apollolaan). Sunday was chosen because of the many schools in the immediate vicinity, but the goal, to burn the archives with data of resistance fighters, was unfortunately not achieved.
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Gerrit van der Veenstraat - Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Gerrit van der Veenstraat 26/04/2020 15h28
Spring in Amsterdam Zuid. The Gerrit van der Veenstraat corner Albrecht Dürerstraat.
Gerrit van der Veenstraat
The Gerrit van der Veenstraat is a street in Amsterdam South. The street is about one kilometer long and runs west from Apollolaan to the sports park on Olympiaplein. The street crosses an important traffic artery, the Beethovenstraat, where tram lines 5 and 24 run. The street also crosses Minervalaan towards the end.
Despite the width of the street and the direction of travel in two sides, the street is not a through road. The street has a typical building style in Amsterdam School style. Some blocks are designed by architect F.A. Warners. The street consists of residential blocks with luxury apartments and several series of semi-detached villas. The street mainly has a residential function, only a number of shops can be found around Beethovenstraat.
Originally, the street Euterpestraat, named after Euterpe, was called the muse of flute playing and lyrical poetry in Greek mythology.
The street was named in 1945, just after the end of the German occupation in World War II, after the Dutch sculptor and resistance hero Gerrit van der Veen (1902-1944).
During the occupation, the former headquarters of the girls' HBS was located in this street, the headquarters (two buildings) of the Dutch section of the German Sicherheitsdienst. From 1942 the Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung was also located here, which organized the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands. Many resistance fighters and Jewish Amsterdammers were brought to the building and tortured there or transported to concentration camps, almost always Westerbork. "Naar de Euterpestraat" therefore did not bode well, hence the name change.
These buildings were bombed on Sunday November 26, 1944. 24 aircraft (type Hawker Typhoon) of the British Air Force (RAF) carried out a submerged attack with missiles and bombs. Thirty residential houses were affected. 69 people died, of which only four were SD. The Zentralstelle was half destroyed. The SD headquarters was so damaged that the SD had to move to hotel Apollofirst (at Apollolaan). Sunday was chosen because of the many schools in the immediate vicinity, but the goal, to burn the archives with data of resistance fighters, was unfortunately not achieved.
[ Source and more information: Wikipedia - Gerrit van der Veenstraat ]