Het Steen (Bruges)
Het Steen was a (now defunct) medieval building on the west side of Burgplatz in the Belgian city of Bruges.
history
It is not certain whether the building was a successor to the Oude Steen , which was built on Wollestraat in the oldest part of the city and whose field stone cellar walls are believed to date from the 11th or 12th centuries.
Het Steen am Burgplatz may also date from this period, but little is known about its earliest history. When Het Steen was built, it most likely replaced a wooden building. The first stone building, a Donjon, was, according to historians 863-965 of Count I. Baldwin , Baldwin II. Or Arnulf I. built. Another historian puts the construction time in the tenure of Count Balduin V (1035-1067).
The first sure source is from 1088, when the building was mentioned as lapidis domus comitis. In the story of Galbert von Bruges about the murder of Charles the Good , Het Steen still functioned as the count's residence. One of his successors is said to have left the building in the 12th century and preferred the Love residence on the opposite side of Burgplatz as his residence when he was in Bruges . Het Steen was used as a count's prison from the end of the 12th century.
At the end of the 13th century, the Count also left the Love residence and granted the city the right to use the various Bruges buildings in his possession. Het Steen served as the city's prison until the building was largely destroyed by fire. Then the Raephuis on Pandreitje was set up as a new prison.
In 1751 the town received full ownership of Het Steen . It was still damaged by the fire and the city preferred to demolish the dilapidated building in 1784-1785. The property lay fallow until the middle of the 19th century. The city sold the property and ironmonger Joseph De Jaegher built a building and workshop here. In 1955, the building was demolished and replaced by a neo-classic, three-story building with four traves. This building was also demolished in 1977. In its place was a building with a shopping gallery up to Wollestraat , which was named Ten Steegere . In addition, a neo-Gothic trading building that still exists today was erected in the 19th century, which was provided with three stepped gables in the neo-Gothic style in 1931. This is how In de Kapelle was born , where the Tompouce Brasserie is now located.
literature
- A. Duclos: Bruges, histoire et souvenirs. Bruges 1910.
- J. Dhondt :, De vroege topography van Brugge. In: Handelingen van de Maatschappij voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde te Gent. 1957.
- A. Verhulst :, Les origines et l'histoire ancienne de la ville de Bruges. In: Le Moyen Age. 1960.
- Nicolas Huyghebaert osb: Iperius et la translation de la relique du Saint-Sang à Bruges. In: Handelingen van het genootschap voor geschiedenis te Brugge. 1963.
- Brigitte Beernaert: Het Steen. A benadering van de vroegere Brugse gevangenis. In: Van middeleeuwen heden dead. Bladeren door Brugse art in divorce. Bruges 1983.
- Marc Ryckaert: Brugge, historical city atlas. Brussels 1991.
- W. Carlier: Heden Het Burgplein van Marcus Gerards dead. In: Brugse Gidsenkroniek. Volume 29, April 1996, pp. 51-61.
- J. De Visser: Geschiedenis van “La Brugeoise” from 1850 to 1940. 1986.