Hacquartstraat

The Hacquartstraat is one of the most beautiful streets in Amsterdam. The houses were all built in the early 1920s.
On the north side, you see a small and chic version of a concrete village with the checkerboard houses by architect F.A. Warners.
Across the street, the round shapes in red brick are typical of the Amsterdam School style. These mansions were designed by Gerrit Jan Rutgers. Sculptures by Theo Vos are embedded in the façade.

The street names in this neighborhood are named after leading figures from Dutch music history. Carel and Philip Hacquart were composers of baroque music and moved from Flanders to Amsterdam in the second half of the seventeenth century. On YouTube, you can find a song by Carel Hacquart from an opera that he wrote on the occasion of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678: ' t Samenspraak tussen Bacchus en Ceres’.

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