Amstel

See also: Amstel (homonymy)

The Amstel (of the Former Dutch Aeme-stele , who means " zone aquatique") fleuve channeled of the south of the province of septentrional Holland with the Netherlands is a .

History

While starting on the river banks, the population started to exploit the Tourbe: the removed ground was transformed into peat Combustible and used like tel. Ainsi, probably towards the beginning of XIIIe century, a hamlet of workers of the peat appeared in the peat bog in the west of Ouderkerk: Amstelveen (in Dutch veen = peaty, even root that Fagne).

By the construction of a Stopping with the mouth of the river, in the septentrional part of Nieuwer-Amstel a village of fishermen called " Amstelredam" would have developed and obtained about 1275 an urban statute. While growing, the hamlet became a small town, Amsterdam which, by its situation on the shores of the Zuiderzee does not cease developing.

Initially, the river emerged in IJ. Currently, Amstel emerges in the central districts of Amsterdam (in the Rokin). The last section of the street which skirts Amstel to Amsterdam also calls Amstel . Via a " duiker" (Dutch: literally plunger: work of art: species of Siphon) under the part covered with Rokin and the Prejudice (= stopping ), water in the final analysis ends (via the Damrak) up flowing into the IJ, although the greatest part is deviated by the ditches of Amsterdam.
Depuis the 17th century there was many country houses beside the river, pertaining to the Amstellodamoise middle-class. Today there remain about it still three.

Layout of the river

Originally, Amstel was born with Mijdrecht from the junction from the rivers Drecht and Kromme Mijdrecht, a little in the south of Uithoorn. By the drain and the construction of the Channel of Amstel in Drecht ( Amstel-Drechtkanaal ), this original course is less obvious nowadays.

Part of what one initially called Amstel now formed part of the Channel of Amstel in Drecht. This channel starts a little in the North-West of Nieuwveen, by the junction of Drecht and the Canal of Aar ( Aarkanaal ), and continuous until Ouderkerk aan of Amstel (literally: old church on Amstel ) where fattening another river, the Bullewijk. From there, the river is called still officially Amstel. The part of the channel of Aar until Bullewijk 18,5 km is long, that downstream from Bullewijk to the mouth is long 12,5 km.

Amstel receives some other small Affluent S, of which most known is the Waver.

See too

• Zuidas

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