Bossche Walk downtown Uilenburg

Walking route description of the city center of Uilenburg - Vughterstraat
1-Departure point is Visstraat at Lepelstraat.

2-Go towards the Hooge Steenweg at the Kruisstraat turn right.
How did the Cross Street get its name? Nothing can be said about this with certainty. We suspect that the intersection at Korenbrugstraat and Eerste Korenstraatje gave rise to this name. It can also be said that the part between Korenbrugstraat and Vistraat used to be called the Korte Kruisstraat.

3-End of the Kruisstraat keep left into the Snellestraat.
Originally, the Snellestraat had no name, at least not officially. She was behind the Minderbroedersklooster and that is why the inhabitants of Den Bosch baptized her'Achter de Brueren\\\'. After the monastery was demolished,'Het Awesomer\\\' was built on site, which was a military prison. It took up a large part of the street. That is why this part, which ran from the later Minderbroedersstraat to the Diest, was called'Het Awesomer\\\'. From the Minderbroedersstraat to the Vughterstraat the name was'De Koffermekersstraat\\\' in 1611. The name Snellestraat first originated in the 2nd half of the 17th century and is due to a house standing there that was called'De Drie Snellekens\\\'. A swift was the name of a drinking cup in ancient times.
4-Second street right into the Stoofstraat and at the end turn right into the Postelstraat.
The Stoofstraat owes its name to the bathhouses that were located in this street in ancient times. People called such a house back then'stove\\\'; they were not well known. In the Postelstraat one of the many guesthouses that Den Bosch used to have. It was founded in 1443 by Margriet Spijkers, who was a beguine at the Klein Begijnhof, which the Begijnestraatje still reminds of. This guest house, which consisted of two dwellings, housed'four godly women of honorable conversation and good conduct\\\'. According to the historian, it was located'in a corridor on the Postelstraat\\\'.
5-First street left into the Uilenburgstraatje and at the end of the street left into the uilenburg.
Neighborhood located on the west side outside the oldest city center. Came within the ramparts during the construction of the second city wall in 1383. Large stone houses were built early on. The Vughterstroom flows centrally through the district, along which a street runs. This urban situation only occurred further in the city at the Marktstroom (Tolbrugkwartier)
6-At the end of the street turn left into the Capucijnenpoort and at the end turn right into the Postelstraat.
The Postelstraat, wrongly sometimes called Apostelstraat, owes its name to the former refuge house of the still existing Abbey of Postel. In 1258 the Abbey had received a house there from a generous Bosch burgher named Lambertus Sus. The Oude Waterstraatje, which would later become the Capucijnenpoort, led over a bridge over the Diest. Postel was a distinguished order, which can be seen, among other things, from the fact that several monks were members of the Illustere Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap, and not everyone could become one just like that. In 1613 part of the house was sold to the Capuchins and since then the street bears the name Capucijnenpoort.
7-At the Vughterstraat turn right, after which ± 150 meters turn left into the Kuipertjeswal.
This street runs where the city wall was before 1400 and the Heilig Kruispoort stood at the intersection with Vughterstraat. The Heilig Kruispoort was then called the Vughterbinnenpoort.
8-At the end of the street, turn right into Parklaan, in the direction of bastion Vught.
Remains of city wall with bastion and tower. Before the Binnendieze was filled in along this avenue, there were three bridges over it, the first was called the Marggraffbruggetje. It was demolished during the war, but then rebuilt by the vd Wielen family (last city farm), the second belonged to the cigar factory of De Leeuw, the third led to the Tilmanshofje.
9-At bastion Vught around hotel Chalet Royal towards Westwal.
This is how the street used to be called up to and including what is now called the Buitenhaven, so the entire west side of the city. In the subsoil there are still remnants of the medieval city walls. Remains of city wall with tower.
10-Second street turn right into the Katerstraat and at the end turn left into the Vughterstraat.
The Vughterstraat only came into being during the first expansion of the city, which took place between the years 1250 and 1352, although there must have been houses there before that.
11-Second street left into the Achter de Boomgaard and at the end turn right into Sint Janssingel.
Berewouthof, former barracks building from 1744. Consisting of three perpendicular wings that open up an open courtyard. The facades of clean masonry contain wide windows with segmental relief arches. Windows in facades on the courtyard are partially covered with stretchers. Brick gutter cantilever. The right side wall is a plastered spout gable with top and shoulder pieces, brick bands and T-sash windows with segmental relief arches. The left side facade is a spout facade with top and shoulder pieces and braids of clean masonry. Against this facade is a stairwell from about 1935. Single-shaped oak beams. Canopy with pine roof beam juts with scissor trusses with beam. Above the central entrance is a hard stone plaque with the year 1744. Beautiful building of simple yet harmonious architecture and of archaeological value.
12-Second street right into the Walpoort and at the end turn left into Molenstraat. (tip! Canal tour Binnendieze)
Ruienburg means the frequent or regular peeling of corn and that does not seem so strange to us, especially for this neighbourhood. The grain needed by the city was mainly brought in through the St. Janspoort. And several street names in the area tell us that it must have been one real grain center here: the two Korenstraatjes where many corn buyers and also the headman of their guild lived, the Korenbrug, the Korenbrugstraat and also the Lepelstraat: repel was the name of a medieval bushel. There was also a house in this neighborhood called'De Corenberch\\\'. And in the Karrenstraat, where people parked their wagons and where a lot of corn was traded in the inns, a building actually bore the name'De Hollandsche Rullewagen\\\'. That is why it seems likely to us that there have been one or more grain mills in this district. Perhaps the water mill, traces of which were found a few years ago at the Molenstraat, was a peeling mill such as can still be found in the province of Groningen.
13-Einde Molenstraat turn left into St. Jansstraat at the end of St. Jansstraat turn right into St. Janssingel and at the next intersection turn right into Visstraat to the starting point.
This street was built at the time that's-Hertogenbosch got a railway line, where the Vismarkt used to be until that time (1874). The Visstraat and, by extension, the Stationsweg made the station more accessible.