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Banpaal Amsteldijk

Banpaal Amsteldijk

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Banpaal Amsteldijk

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Location: Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands

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August 22, 2022

An obelisk on a pedestal, conspicuous but also inconspicuous. Architecture as a time capsule, and this pole tells a story about the creation of Amsterdam. A story that would have been lost without this pole. This rod is a so-called banpaal made in the seventeenth century. Banpaal on the Amsteldijk, 1623.

A ban is an ancient term for a city's jurisdiction. A banpaal is a pole marking the boundary of a city's ban. In the Middle Ages it was not uncommon to mark jurisdiction with ban poles. Another word for banpole is milestone or boundary pole. Within the jurisdiction, the city had the right to levy city taxes and arrest lawbreakers, known as ban and van rights.

The Amsterdam border posts were first mentioned in a document in 1342. At that time Amsterdam was granted new city rights by Count Wilhelm IV. Willem IV's decree describes the jurisdiction. At that time Amsterdam was still small, the border posts were at the level of the Martelaarsgracht, the Oude- and Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal and the Spui.
Order of Willem IV, Count of Holland to all his baljuwen to guarantee the gatekeepers of Amsterdam toll-free, 9 December 1342.

To ban one person, that sounds pretty intense. It was one of the most severe punishments that the court could impose in the Middle Ages. Aside from the death penalty, of course, pretty severe too. You can be banished for a specific time or forever. In this case, you were no longer allowed to appear in court. Anyone who returned before the end of the ban was punished with death. They can be banished for crimes such as theft, prostitution, robbery, street brawls and other public acts of violence. For a court, banishment was actually the only way, aside from the death sentence, to get rid of lawbreakers or undesirables permanently, or at least for a long time.

Nowadays people are no longer banished. When the Batavian Republic was founded in 1795, the ban on people from cities and regions was abolished. The only thing that comes close to exile in the Netherlands today is a ban on entering an area or making contact.

These six new prohibition signs have been placed on the main access roads to the city: on the Amsteldijk and the Kleinen Loopveld in Amstelveen, on the Diemerdammersluis, on the Landweg between Kadoelen and Landsmeer, on the Spaarndammerdijk in the Spieringhorner Buitenpolder and east of Sloten Church on the Sloterweg.

Source: archihis.blog/2021/12/17/banpaal-amsteldijk-noord

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Banpaal Amsteldijk

1. Ouderkerk aan de Amstel – Ronde Hoep Route loop from Heemstedestraat

2. Amstel Hotel – Amstel River loop from Weesperplein

3. Amstel River – Ouderkerk aan de Amstel loop from De Pijp

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