Brouwershuis or Waterhuis in Antwerp

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The Brouwershuis or Waterhuis in Antwerp is a building built in 1554 by order and according to plans by Gilbert van Schoonbeke. The house was located on the First Antwerp vliet in the then Nieuwstad. In the building, water was pumped up to distribute it to the approximately sixteen surrounding breweries that had largely established themselves on the vliet; Hence also that the first vliet was also called Brouwersvliet. The entrance to the building is on Adriaan Brouwerstraat. The building also has a facade, without access, on the Brouwersvliet, which was muffled in 1930 and transformed into a boulevard, which contains the tunnel mouth and the first part of the tunnel shaft of the Waaslandtunnel under the Scheldt.

History: In the 16th century, local beer production in Antwerp received a new impetus. Before that, most of the beer was shipped by ship from Germany and England. Sweet drinkable water was still brought to Antwerp via ramps from the river Rupel. The own beer production required additional water supply. To make the water supply more efficient, faster and cheaper, from the Herentalse Vaart via an underground pipe to...