Attraction · Amsterdam · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Banpaal is an attraction in Amsterdam, North Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 680 m you'll find a bench and a public toilet.
Story · Banpaal
You're standing on the Spaarnwouderdijk, alongside the Westrandweg, near a pumping station. Look at the stone remains here. This is what's left of a boundary post from 1624, a so-called banpaal. Posts like this one marked how far the jurisdiction of the city of Amsterdam reached.
Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.
The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies. No water point, bike pump or food stand within 1 km.
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