Het Steen (Bruges)

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51°12′31″N 3°13′35″E / 51.208484°N 3.22627°E / 51.208484; 3.22627

Het Steen was a

At the end of the 13th century, the Count also left the Love and granted the city the right to use a number of buildings around Bruges which he owned. Steen Castle became the city prison. In 1689, the building was largely destroyed by a fire and the Raephuis on the Pandreitje was established as the new prison.[1]

In 1751, the city acquired full ownership of Steen Castle. It was still badly damaged by the fire and the city took the decision to demolish the dilapidated building in 1784–85. The plot remained undeveloped until the middle of the 19th century, when the city sold the land and a building and workshop was established there by the ironmonger Joseph De Jaegher. This building was demolished in 1955 and replaced by a neoclassical building with three floors and four bays. In 1977, this building was also demolished, to be replaced by a building with a shopping gallery – Ten Steeghere – which led to Wollestraat. Next to this, there was a 19th-century neo-Gothic commercial building which still remains in place. This building, which was known as In de Kapelle, was rebuilt in 1931, adding three stepped gables in the neo-Gothic style. Nowadays the building houses Brasserie Tompouce.^[2]

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