From 1823 to 1825
The river Aar is substantially improved and the Aarkanaal dug. The old bridge, the Duivelsbrug (Devil's Bridge), gives way to a wooden double-leaf drawbridge that comes to be called the Kattenbrug.
Provenance This comes from the series J.J. Roovers set down up to 1970. The wording here is this site’s own. View the source
On this spot
Kattenbrug
- 1823–1825 From 1823 to 1825
- 1846 In 1846
- 1860 In 1860
- 1896 In 1896
- c. 1920 Around 1920
- 1925 In 1925
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From 1823 to 1825
The Duivelssluis, the lock in the Aar beside the Duivelsbrug, falls out of use. A new complex of locks at the Tolhuis in Leimuiden takes its place.
Around 1873
The wind-driven drainage mills disappear one by one; steam pumping stations elsewhere take over their work.
Not all the mills go this early: the lower mill H of the Zevenhoven polder on the Ringdijk, built in 1810, stands until 1926.
A mill near Nieuwveen, from an album of 1851–1891 — the years in which the water mills were being cleared away. View larger → In 1894
The Nieuwkoop steam pumping station is built at Korteraar to a design by W.C. and K. de Wit, fitted with two British Gwynnes centrifugal pumps. It takes over the drainage of the droogmakerij.
In 1921
The pumping station at Korteraar is converted from steam.
In 1925
The present Kattenbrug is built.
It replaced the wooden double-leaf drawbridge of 1823–1825. At this point Roovers gives 1824 as the year that wooden bridge was built, and 1823–1825 elsewhere.
The bridge that replaced the wooden drawbridge in 1925, in the entry beside this. View larger → In 1926
The lower mill H of the Zevenhoven polder on the Ringdijk, built in 1810, disappears. What remains of it still stands and is in use as a house.