Binnendieze is the common name for the river and canal system within the city walls of 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.

When the Dommel came to be considered the main river, the stretch of the Dieze between Oisterwijk and Halder was renamed Esschestroom, or Run.

When the fortifications of 's-Hertogenbosch were dismantled in the 1870s, the main stream bed of the Dommel was rerouted to the west of the city.

During the construction of the second city wall in the fourteenth century, a water gate called 'Kleine Hekel' was built.

Below the Europeesch Keramisch Werk Centrum (EKWC) a cellar was found that contained the quay walls and the intact former bridge of the ally Achter de Mollen.

Making the small bridge visible would be good for tourism, but would also significantly increase the price of buildings on the premises.

When the second city wall was built in the second half of the fourteenth century, the stretch of the Verwerstroom along the Kruisstraat from its last bend near Guardianenhof till the Visbrug was filled up.

[10] Nowadays the southern part of the Verwerstroom can be viewed from bridges on the Zuidwal, Volderstraatje, Beurdsestraat, Oud Bogardenstraatje, Paradijsstraaje, the Waterstraat (Noordbrabants Museum), and Klein Lombardje.

Therefore a canal was dug south of the Korenbrugstraat till it met the natural Vughterstroom between Lamstraatje and Capucijnenpoort.

[4] The natural part south of the junction with the Kleine Vughterstroom, including the water gate has been filled up.

Inside a room was made which shows the fourteenth-century second city wall and a 16th-century gate which was found during construction.

The house immediately north of the church shows that it has been built right on top of the Kerkstroom, because it has an arch running through the ground floor of the facade.

Continuing to the north for a few houses along the Kruisbroedersstraatje, a bridge over the Kleine Vughterstroom announces the end of the Kerkstroom.

In 1966 the foundations of the assembly room of the provincial representative body of North Brabant, which was located above the Hellegat, collapsed.

Public servants had to scramble to save important documents, and to diminish floor pressure on these foundations.

The current Binnenhaven (inner harbor) is roughly situated between the (hidden) bridge in the Visstraat and the Boombrug at Oliemolensingel.

The city then dug through a sand ridge to make a connection between the Vughterstroom and the Groote Stroom.

In the fifteenth century, the Zwarte Water, which led from the Groote Stroom to the Meuse was replaced by a canal called Dieze.

A water gate called 'Aan de Boom' was built to allow ships to pass the city walls between the harbor and the 'Dieze'.

In the early 1630s part of the houses there were demolished, and a new quay built in order to increase the capacity of the harbor and to enable ships to use both sides of it.

[16] In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the members of the very important skippers guild, all Protestants, lived along the Breede Haven.

These produced cigars of the brand La Paz, popular with King William III of the Netherlands.

The massive 5 story high factory building on the Binnenhaven, commonly known as 'The Yellow Danger', was demolished.

After the Binnendieze lost its defensive and transport functions, it became something like an open sewer in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Later alternative waste disposal techniques became available, e.g. very wide sewer pipes that were laid at the bottom of the streams.

Nevertheless, even before World War II the possibilities for tourism where somewhat understood,[20] and in the mid 1930s the first boat trips for tourists were organized.

Structure plan 1964 led to a storm of protest from locals, united in the Comité Behoud Binnenstad (Committee to preserve the inner city), but also from many national organizations.

This changed in September 1966, when Hein Bergé and Jan van der Eerden got elected to the municipal council for the new party Beter Bestuur (better government).

Meanwhile the Rijksdienst voor Monumentenzorg (national heritage service), informed by Beter Bestuur had a different opinion.

On the third day of the debate, a sketch arrived from The Hague, designating large parts of the Binnendieze as protected cityscape.