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Willem Blaeu's 1652 map of Utrecht. Although there is some evidence of earlier inhabitation in the region of Utrecht, dating back to the Stone Age (app. 2200 BCE) and settling in the Bronze Age (app. 1800–800 BCE), [11] the founding date of the city is usually related to the construction of a Roman fortification (), probably built in around 50 CE.
Abstede, Catharijne, Lauwerecht, and Tolsteeg become part of city. [citation needed] Oorsprongpark (Utrecht) opens. 1830 - Utrecht City Hall built. [4] 1838 - City Museum of Antiquities opens. 1843 - Utrecht Centraal railway station opens. 1853 - Sonnenborgh Observatory established. 1866 - Population: 58,607 in city; 172,487 in province. [16]
The Oudegracht, or "old canal", runs through the center of Utrecht, the Netherlands.It starts in the southeast of the city. Here the Kromme Rijn (the original main bed of the Rhine river) and the Vaartse Rijn (a medieval canal reconnecting Utrecht to the newer main stream of the Rhine, the Lek) arrive to meet the original moat of the fortified town, and the Oudegracht goes from there into the ...
North Holland, Utrecht, South Holland and North Brabant: 1996 759bis; ii, iv, v (cultural) The defence line of Amsterdam was built between 1883 and 1920. The fortification is based on the principle of controlling the waters around a city.
Austrasia (including the southern Netherlands) was given to Sigebert I. The southern Netherlands remained the northern part of Austrasia until the rise of the Carolingians. The Franks who expanded south into Gaul settled there and eventually adopted the Vulgar Latin of the local population. [9]
Dorestad in the network of main Northern European trade routes in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800). Dorestad (Dorestat, Duristat) was an early medieval emporium, located in the present-day province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, close to the modern-day town of Wijk bij Duurstede.
The Catharijnesingel is a street in, and part of the historic moat in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The Catharijnesingel is the long straight stretch of the harp shaped city moat in the West of the city. The street and canal run from the Ledig Erf and Westerkade to the Smakkelaarsveld and Daalsesingel into which it merges.
Old city of Utrecht, Netherlands The Free imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire in 1648 A map of Haarlem in the Netherlands, created around 1550, shows the city completely surrounded by a city wall and defensive canal, with its square shape inspired by the shape of Jerusalem.