Talk:Oudeschans, Amsterdam

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This sentence has me a bit confused:

"In 1602 a channel was cut through the Sint Antoniesdijk on the south side of the Oudeschans, and the Sint Antoniesluis (a lock) was built so that ships could sail to the Amstel via the Zwanenburgwal."

Just two paragraphs up from that, the article states that between 1515 and 1518 an arm of the Amstel was improved as the Zwanenburgwal, "leading to the Nieuwe Gracht, as the Oudeschans was then called." This at least implies both that the Oudeschans already existed, and that it was already directly connected to the Zwanenburgwal. Furthermore, we already know that the Sint Antoniesdijk preceded all of these developments, I believe, which would imply that the Zwanenburgwal had already been "cut through" the Sint Antoniesdijk. If that's the case, then nothing was "cut through" in 1602, they simply decided to add a lock. Can someone clarify this so that we can write a more accurate description of the development of thte Oudeschans? Criticalthinker (talk) 09:32, 29 June 2023 (UTC)