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History
The house is a listed building dating from the 17th century, and is built against the chapel of the former cloister. This chapel was built in 1475, and was originally the chapel of the Celle sisters. They nursed the mentally ill and plague-sufferers. After the reformation the cloister buildings took on a new role as part of the growing textile industry. Protestant textile manufacturers (the Walloons) from the south were encouraged to come to Kampen. the Guild of Linen Weavers were given a part of the cloister buildings as their Guild-house as well as the chapel. Their painted entry-gate (1665) can still be seen. We think Het Gildenhuisje was used by the Linen Weavers as a workshop.
City Farm:
The house is a listed building and was originally a city farm, it was built around 1850. The existing row of houses including the entrance to the farmhouse was built after the reformation of the monasteries, around the first quarter of the 17th century. The black- and white tiles date from this period. Around 1850 a large farmhouse was built behind and against the existing row of houses. The first floor of this house consists of a hayloft and underneath this were the stalls (now the living-room of the appartment), milk cellar, and accommodation for the farmer and his family, now the appartment. The farm was still in use as such until the end of the 1980’s.