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stands today. Like all other convents of
Haarlem, the nuns property was seized by the state. In 1581 the Annaklooster was formally seized by the state with all its possessions, and the nuns living there were forced to live elsewhere (they were given an annuity by the city to live by). Her story is
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Both Hofjes are for elderly
Catholic women, though Nicolaes van Beresteyn stipulated in his will that his hofje was for both elderly men and women. The hofje seems very unassuming in its current location in the shadow of the Cathedral of Saint Bavo, but it happens to be the wealthiest of all the
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formerly located on the Grote
Houtstraat and which burned in the fire of 1576. These monks were put out on the street, but with local support from underground Catholic parishes, they found a place to stay in the Damsteeg, and many also fled south. Prior to the fall of Haarlem to the Protestant
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Hillegond
Gerritsdr, a nun in the Haarlem convent of St. Anna, asked the church for permission to take her possessions from the convent and leave them to this hofje. The St. Anna klooster was located on the same square (damaged beyond repair in 1572) where the
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Decoration next to the door of the current hofje, above a picture from when it was above the door in the door in the Lange
Molenstraat. That location also had a door on the Lange Herenstraat, Haarlem
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Nothing remains of the original hofje in the center of town. During the course of centuries, the successful hofje (known as
Spoorwater's hofje) expanded and rebuilt, but in the 18th century, the
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The current building is from 1968 and is located on the J. Cuyperstraat, near the church and the canal
Leidsevaart, in Haarlem. Catholic women 60 years and older are still welcome there.
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republic in 1577 after the four-year
Spanish occupation, many Haarlem hofjes were in some way physically connected to a specific church. This can still be seen in the case of the
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Haarlem. This is because the families of van Codde and van Beresteyn left several paintings that were sold in the 19th century for funding to rebuild, which they did.
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Klokhuisplein, Haarlem in 1804 showing the gateway to the former location of the hofje on the left (the hofje moved in 1872 to the spot near the
Haarlem railway station).
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The management of the Hofje is in charge of a board that works together with the St Jacobsgodhuis to finance various activities in Haarlem's hofjes, such as the
324:(1588â1636). Finally, they sold a family portrait about 10 years after that, which was attributed to Frans Hals at the time, but has since been attributed to
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with rosary in hand. This portrait hung in the regent's room for centuries, up until the move to the J. Cuyperstraat. Since then it has been on loan to the
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much like the story of the nun Elisabeth Verhagen of the Haarlem St. Michielsklooster, who suffered a similar fate. The grounds of that cloister became the
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on the Grote markt in the center of town. This location is the second move that the hofje made in its history spanning four centuries.
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who was a regent. The family portrait of the Beresteyns that was later sold as a Frans Hals in the 1880s is now attributed to Soutman.
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379:"Meer dan Steen - Haarlemse gebedshuizen vroeger en nu", Historical Werkgroup "Vereniging Haerlem"; editor: Leny Wijnands, 2007.
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The Codde hofje merged later with the Hofje van Beresteyn, which was founded in 1684, nearly a century later, by the painter
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had lost their former monastery in 1581 when the city had reclaimed that land (and the church located there) to replace the
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The Haarlem archives still keep the will and testament of the original donor, where it states that Mr. Pieter Jansz Codde,
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in 1885. The first painting was a portrait of a young girl, Emerantia van Beresteyn, the sister of the landscape painter
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Emerantia van Beresteyn, by Pieter Soutman in 1634. This painting was sold as a Frans Hals to Mathilde Rothschild.
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was originally built on the Lange Herenstraat at a spot now housing a large parking garage across from the
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on the same spot. On old maps of Haarlem, the original hofje appears in legends as
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Stichting Het Hofje van Meester Pieter Janszoon Codde, genaamd Spoorwater
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Hofjes met perspectief. Al eeuwen een moderne woonvorm voor ouderen.
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painting to Mathilde Hannah Rothschild in 1882 and later three more
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