page_title: Groenburgwal
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Groenburgwal / History
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Uitsnede uit een kaart van Amsterdam rond de Verwersgraft (Raamgracht), Groene Burchwal en de Zuyderkerck 1625
context_page_description: The Groenburgwal is a canal in Amsterdam that connects the Raamgracht with the Amstel.
  The Groenburgwal is parallel to the Kloveniersburgwal and the Zwanenburgwal, in the shadow of the tower of the Zuiderkerk.
context_section_description: The area between the Kloveniersburgwal and the Zwanenburgwal was until late in the 16th century "the site outside the fortress at the Amstel". 
  In 1593 the area was added to the city.
  Cloth weavers worked here.
  The wool was washed, carded and spun, then cloth was woven from it.
  After fulling and dyeing the cloth was tensioned on wooden frames to dry and stretch. 
  The names of the nearby Raamgracht, the Raamsloot near Rusland, dug in 1537, and the Verversstraat (1593) recall those activities.
  In the early 17th century, the Amstel between Kloveniersburgwal and Groenburgwal and a little later the 's Gravelandse Veer, between Groenburgwal and Blauwbrug, was compressed. 
  Around that time the name Groenburgwal was born; green dyers were specially established here.
caption: Detail from the map of Amsterdam by Balthasar Florisz van Berckenrode from around the Verwersgraft, Groene Burchwal and the Zuyderkerck
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