EU: Nederlandse gebouwen in Batavia (1900) through time

Jakarta 1850–1913 11 photos of this spot

11 photographs taken at the same spot in Jakarta, spanning 1850–1913 — 11 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The Bremen consulate building stands along the Kali Besar canal in Batavia, as the Dutch colonial-era city now known as Jakarta was called in 1850. The canal was a central artery of the old town, lined with the offices and warehouses of European trading interests.

EU: Consulaat van de stad Bremen aan de Kali Besar in Batavia (1850) 1850 The Bremen consulate building stands along the Kali Besar canal in Batavia, as the Dutch colonial-era city now known as Jakarta was called in 1850. The canal was a central artery of the old town, lined with the offices and warehouses of European trading interests.

EU: Gezicht opde Ciliwung in Jakarta (1864) 1864 A view along the Ciliwung River in Jakarta, photographed in 1864 during the Dutch colonial period when the city was still commonly known as Batavia. The river was a key waterway for the settlement, used for transport and trade.

EU: Nederlandse gebouwen in Batavia (1900) 1900 Colonial-era Dutch buildings occupy a street corner in Batavia, the administrative and commercial center of the Dutch East Indies, in this photograph from 1900.

EU: Societeit de Harmonie in Jakarta. (1900) 1900 Societeit de Harmonie was a members' social club in Batavia, present-day Jakarta, photographed here in 1900. Such societeiten were gathering places for the Dutch colonial elite, hosting balls, theater and billiards, and the Harmonie building stood among the city's best-known colonial-era institutions.

EU: Twee rijtuigen rijden langs een plein in Jakarta, een hiervan heeft op de zijkant de tekst Hotel des Indes staan. (1900) 1900 Two horse-drawn carriages pass along a square in Jakarta in this 1900 photograph; lettering on one identifies it as belonging to the Hotel des Indes, then among Batavia's best-known hotels for European travelers arriving in the Dutch East Indies capital.

EU: Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesien. Allee mit breitem Fahrweg, rechts einheimischer Junge an einem Dos-à-dos-Einspänner ("Eseltaxi") mit Touristen der Hapag (1911) 1911 A tree-lined avenue in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, is shown in 1911 with a two-wheeled dos-a-dos carriage, popularly called an "eseltaxi," carrying tourists arriving on Hapag steamship lines.

EU: Weltevreden (Jakarta), Indonesien. Verwaltung und Sitz des Gouverneurs im Vorort Weltevreden, Straßenansicht mit Dos-à-dos-Einspänner (1912) 1912 The government administration quarter of Weltevreden, the planned suburb south of Batavia's old town that housed the colonial governor's offices, is shown in this 1912 street view.

EU: Weltevreden (Jakarta), Indonesien. Denkmal (mit Victoria und Löwenskulpturen) für die holländischen Erschließer Nordsumatras im Wilhelminenpark. Um Vorderansicht mit Erinnerungstafel (1912) 1912 A monument erected around 1890 in Weltevreden's Wilhelmina Park honored Dutch explorers of northern Sumatra, its front decorated with sculpted figures of Victory and lions above a memorial plaque; this 1912 photograph shows the monument's facade.

EU: Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesien. Glodok (Altstadt). Einheimische Frauen, Männer und Kinder beim Wäschewaschen am städtischen Kanal, daneben Trockengerüste und Uferfläche für Wäschebleiche (1912) 1912 In Glodok, the old quarter of Batavia, residents wash and dry laundry along the municipal canal in this 1912 photograph, with drying racks lining the bank used for bleaching cloth in the sun.

EU: Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesien. Dos-à-dos-Einspänner mit Touristen der Hapag, umgeben von einheimischen Händlern, auf einer breiten Allee (1913) 1913 Tourists from a Hapag cruise ride in a dos-a-dos carriage along a wide avenue in Batavia, the colonial-era name for Jakarta, surrounded by local vendors offering goods to the visiting Europeans on their tour of the Dutch East Indies.

EU: WeltevWel( Jakarta) or Glodok (Old Town) by Batavia, Indonesia. Tourists watching locals washing clothes and bleaching on the canal (1913) 1913 Tourists watch locals washing and bleaching clothes along a canal in the Glodok, or old town, quarter of Batavia (Jakarta) in this 1913 photograph, a scene of everyday riverside life set against the backdrop of the Dutch East Indies capital's historic Chinese district.