Craenenburg

Postcard view, ca.1905.

Modern restaurant / cafe conversion (2007).

Cranenburg (also: Craenenburg House ) is a historic building on the Grote Markt ( Great Market Square ) of Bruges in Belgium .

Surname

The name of the house goes back to the oldest recorded owners, residents from 1305.

history

It is said that the Dukes of Flanders observed the tournaments and pageants from there in the Middle Ages , including Margaret of York (1468). In 1488 the Archduke Maximilian I was imprisoned in the building for several months. For a long time it was the most beautiful private building on the market square. In the 19th century a restaurant was set up there and in 1905 it became the hangout of the Bruges Brugse Rookersclub (Bruges Smoking Club ). In 1956 the house was completely renovated and furnished in the Flemish style. The Craenenburg has been owned by the Boedt family, who run the restaurant in the third generation, since 1966.

Individual evidence

↑ Self-presentation in a leaflet.
^ Kerstin Schweighöfer: Antwerp Bruges Gent. Merian, Munich 2015, p. 100, (travel guide).
↑ George WT Omond's: Bruges and West Flanders 1906. “Cranenburg, from the windows of which, in olden times, the Counts of Flanders, with the lords and ladies of their Court, used to watch the tournaments and pageants for which Bruges was celebrated , and in which Maximilian was imprisoned by the burghers in 1488. But the Cranenburg, once the 'most magnificent private residence in the Market-Place,' many years ago lost every trace of its original splendor, and is now an unattractive hostelry, the headquarters of a smoking club; while the Hôtel de Bouchoute , turned into a clothier's shop, has little to distinguish it from its commonplace neighbors. "

literature

George WT Omond: Bruges and West Flanders ill. v. Amédée Forestier , 1906.

Web links

51.20862 3.22364Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 31 ″ N , 3 ° 13 ′ 25.1 ″ E

[1] Self-presentation in a leaflet.

[2] Kerstin Schweighöfer: Antwerp Bruges Gent. Merian, Munich 2015, p. 100, (travel guide).

[3] George WT Omond's: Bruges and West Flanders 1906. “Cranenburg, from the windows of which, in olden times, the Counts of Flanders, with the lords and ladies of their Court, used to watch the tournaments and pageants for which Bruges was celebrated , and in which Maximilian was imprisoned by the burghers in 1488. But the Cranenburg, once the 'most magnificent private residence in the Market-Place,' many years ago lost every trace of its original splendor, and is now an unattractive hostelry, the headquarters of a smoking club; while the Hôtel de Bouchoute , turned into a clothier's shop, has little to distinguish it from its commonplace neighbors. "