Welcome to Prinsen Island. This royal island is named after Prince William of Orange. Look at those huge storage houses! There must have been a lot of valuable goods stored there!
After the Second World War barely people lived on the island, it was an island full of warehouses for storage of valuable goods. There were 900 warehouses in Amsterdam, almost 100 were on Prinsen-Island! These warehouses were used to storage wood and tar. Ass you can see the warehouses are pretty high. So you wonder, how do you get all that heavy wood and tar all the way up to the attic? Well they used a hoist installation or special beam to hoist all those valuable goods up. You can actually still see it. Look all the way up and you can see a white beam.
Long after the second world war the island was rediscovered by artists. Since then the island is changed in an attractive living- and working area. Look how fancy these storage houses are with its characteristic red shutters? The storage houses are now divided in luxury apartments. Still a lot of people with an artistic background are living in the storage houses; like actors, musicians, cabinetmakers and painters. For example Willem Nijholt a dutch singer and actor and Auke Hettema a sculptor. Nevertheless a lot of the atmosphere of the past is still present. Take a nice look to the different kind of storage houses as we walk to the next point.
After the Second World War barely people lived on the island, it was an island full of warehouses for storage of valuable goods. There were 900 warehouses in Amsterdam, almost 100 were on Prinsen-Island! These warehouses were used to storage wood and tar. Ass you can see the warehouses are pretty high. So you wonder, how do you get all that heavy wood and tar all the way up to the attic? Well they used a hoist installation or special beam to hoist all those valuable goods up. You can actually still see it. Look all the way up and you can see a white beam.
Long after the second world war the island was rediscovered by artists. Since then the island is changed in an attractive living- and working area. Look how fancy these storage houses are with its characteristic red shutters? The storage houses are now divided in luxury apartments. Still a lot of people with an artistic background are living in the storage houses; like actors, musicians, cabinetmakers and painters. For example Willem Nijholt a dutch singer and actor and Auke Hettema a sculptor. Nevertheless a lot of the atmosphere of the past is still present. Take a nice look to the different kind of storage houses as we walk to the next point.
