Place
Kattenbrug
Bridge over the Aarkanaal. The present bridge dates from 1925.
Kattenbrug, Nieuwveen
What happened here
7 events
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.
The Kattenbrug over the Aarkanaal. The canal is dug in the entry beside this; the bridge still crosses it. View larger → 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.
In 1846
Nieuwveen gets its first industry: the wind-powered sawmill De Angenieta, near the Kattenbrug, founded by Jeremias Schoenmakers — son of the Reformed minister Pieter Schoenmakers. The Zaagmolenpad (Sawmill Path) is named after this mill.
In 1860
The Leiden firm De Volharding starts a steamboat service to Amsterdam and to Leiden, carrying passengers as well as goods. The landing stage was by the Kattenbrug.
In 1896
The sawmill De Angenieta by the Kattenbrug, dating from 1846, is pulled down, timber sheds and all. Pieter Schoenmakers carries the business of the firm J. Schoenmakers on at the Amsterdam Houthaven, where it comes to great prosperity.
The Zaagmolenpad — “sawmill path”. The sawmill pulled down in the entry beside this is gone; its name is still in the street. View larger → Around 1920
The steamboat services to Amsterdam and Leiden are discontinued. The Leiden firm De Volharding had run them since 1860.
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 →