The real Rotterdam
About 3,300 buildings from OpenStreetMap, a small first piece of the centre from the Coolsingel to the Oude Haven, down to the Erasmusbrug. More of the city comes later.
Instant Rotterdam BETA
Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback through Rotterdam, among the towers on the Maas!
The centre of Rotterdam in 3D, rebuilt after 1940: the Coolsingel, the Markthal, the cube houses, the Oude Haven and the Laurenskerk, every building from OpenStreetMap.
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What there is to do
A city of new buildings
The Markthal’s arch of flats, Piet Blom’s cube houses and the Potlood, the Witte Huis of 1898, the Laurenskerk and Zadkine’s De Verwoeste Stad by the Leuvehaven.
A race: Blaak and Markthal
Down the Coolsingel, along the Blaak past the Markthal to the cube houses, up the Binnenrotte and back along the Hoogstraat past the Laurenskerk.
This is Rotterdam
Rotterdam lies on the Nieuwe Maas, where the Rhine and the Maas run to the North Sea, in the province of South Holland. On 14 May 1940 German bombers burned out its old centre in one afternoon, and the city rebuilt it as a place to try out new buildings: the Lijnbaan, the cube houses, the Markthal and the Erasmusbrug. Around it lies the biggest port in Europe.
- The bombing of 14 May 1940, and the modern city that rose from it
- The Erasmusbrug, the white Swan over the Maas
- Piet Blom’s cube houses and the Markthal’s arch of flats
- The biggest port in Europe, out to the North Sea
- Erasmus, born in Rotterdam, and Feyenoord
Places, elements and landmarks
City HallRotterdam’s town hall of 1920 on the Coolsingel, one of the few buildings in the centre that came through the bombing of 1940.
Erasmus BridgeThe white cable-stayed bridge over the Maas, nicknamed the Swan, which became the sign of the new Rotterdam.
Witte HuisThe white office building of 1898 by the Oude Haven, one of the first high-rise buildings in Europe.
Oude HavenRotterdam’s oldest harbour, full of old sailing barges, with terraces along its quays.
Cube housesPiet Blom’s yellow houses tilted on their corners, a forest of cubes on top of a footbridge over the Blaak.
MarkthalA horseshoe arch of flats over a covered market, with the biggest artwork in the Netherlands on its ceiling.
LaurenskerkThe great late-Gothic church of the city, burnt out in 1940 and rebuilt, the last medieval building of the centre.
SchielandshuisA 17th-century classical palace among the towers, which came through the bombing of 1940.
Maritiem MuseumThe maritime museum on the Leuvehaven, with old cranes, a lightship and working boats moored outside.
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Play Instant RotterdamStill in development: expect some rough edges.