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Drawbridge
Pedestrians also have to pay to cross the bridge.
The list of tolls from 1771 is displayed on one of the uprights of the bridge’s large wooden gateways. Here you can see exactly how much it cost in that year if you wanted to pass. A skipper obviously had to pay if he wanted the bridge to open to allow his vessel through. However, pedestrians who wanted to cross it had to fork out too. The bridgeman would open the bridge by pulling on chains. Thanks to the counterweights, the leaves of the bridge could be raised easily. To close the bridge, the bridgeman would simply walk onto one of the leaves and his weight would bring the bridge back down. In 1358 Duke Aelbrecht referred to a predecessor of this bridge in a letter of enfeoffment: “(…) the village in Ouder-Aemstel on both sides of the bridge (…)”.
19th century. Relocated here in 1939.