HET PRINCEN HOF – HOTEL THE GRAND. 
Oude Zijds Voorburgwal. O. Dapper 1663

Original antique copper engraving. Uncoloured
“HET PRINCEN HOF - La Course du Prince ou College de l’Admiraute.”
Title in Dutch & French in top of the engraving.
From: Historische Beschryving der Stad Amsterdam by Ollefert Dapper.
Published Anno 1663 by Jac. Meurs, bookseller in the Nieuwstraat in Amsterdam.

Format engraving:
18,4 x 29,2 cm. (7,2 x 11,5 inches.)

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Hotel The GRAND, Oude Zijdsvoorburgwal 197, is located in the former townhall of the city Amsterdam. The large property where the Hotel is located in the old city goes back to the 14th century. Here were located the monasteries from St Cecilia and St Catharina. In 1578 when the Calvinists took over and after the Alteratie the city Amsterdam owned all the property from the former Catholic Church. They changed the monastery in to a “guesthouse“ for high official guests, a “ Logement voor Princen en Hooge Heeren “ In 1557 it also became a meeting room for the Admiralty of Amsterdam. After 1647 it was no longer in use as a guesthouse and in 1656 it was totally given to the Admiralty. Between 1652 and 1656 it also was used by the city government when the old old Townhall on the Dam was burnt down in 1652. And the new townhall (now Royal Palace) was not yet finished.. When the French came in 1795 in Amsterdam, the Admiralty was gone. Than they were moved to The Haque. In 1808 it became a townhall again, when the French King Louis Napoleon moved in the Townhall on the Dam, what since than is called the Royal Palace. The building was than from 1808 until 1988 the townhall for the Municipal government. In 1992 Hotel The Grand was opened.