Postjesweg
5051- Opened
- 1 June 1997
- Level
- Elevated
- District
- Nieuw-West
- lines
- 50 51
Where does the name come from?
The station is named after Postjesweg, which was named in 1922 after the vanished Postjeswetering waterway in the Sloterpolder. A 'postje' is a little bridge, and that waterway had many of them.
The story
Named after a waterway full of little bridges
Anyone getting off at Postjesweg is standing on the site of a vanished polder landscape. The street owes its name to the Postjeswetering in the Sloterpolder. Until 1922 this waterway was crossed by countless 'postjes': little bridges over which farmers carried hay and market-garden produce. The road was given its name by a council decision of 22 March 1922.
Postjesweg starts at the Kinkerbrug over the Kostverlorenvaart and was part of Plan West, the expansion around the fully built-up nineteenth-century ring. Beyond the Hoofdweg the land was then still mostly farms and market gardens. Only during the city's expansion in the 1950s was the road extended as far as the ring railway. Along the way it cuts through the Rembrandtpark, laid out in the 1960s.
The metro station has stood since 1997 exactly where Postjesweg becomes Robert Fruinlaan. It has one island platform with two tracks and is served by line 50 and, since 2019, line 51.
Until 1922 the Postjeswetering was crossed by countless little bridges used to carry hay and market-garden produce.
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