The Bridge at Anagaloeng — Brug bij Anagaloeng — was the iron bridge thrown across the Atjeh-rivier at Anagaloeng in the XXII Moekims of Groot-Atjeh, one of the twenty-four plates of De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh and the structure whose deck-planks were afterwards used by Teungkoe di Tiro to build the great Achehnese dwelling that served the Dutch as officers’ quarters.
Description
Hooijer wrote that the nearness of the broad, mirroring stream, with the iron bridge that had been thrown across it, already lent something cheerful and something healthy to a stay at so picturesque a point. The bridge belonged to the period when General van der Heijden had pitched two bivouacs on both banks of the river in preparation for continuing his campaign of conquest through the valley.
The float-bridge and river traffic
A separate vlotbrug — float-bridge — connected the two encampments, and over it soldiers, Chinese and native women passed continually. On the stream lay the great Chinese barges in which the sick were carried down to the Kraton; and in the water soldiers of every skin colour floundered together. On one occasion the river rose so high that the encampments were buried two metres deep and the soldiers had to take refuge on the high kampong (village) ground of Anagaloeng.
Afterlife of the timbers
When the Dutch built their model benteng at Anagaloeng in the 1890s, the large Achehnese dwelling used as officers’ quarters was, Hooijer recorded, the house that Teungkoe di Tiro had raised uit de dekplanken van onze brug — from the deck-planks of the Dutch bridge.
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Source
De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, pp. 46-48.