Peuzelaarsteeg, Haarlem looking westward

The Peuzelaarsteeg is a narrow lane in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, the Netherlands, that connects the

Grote Houtstraat The Grote Houtstraat is a shopping street in Haarlem that connects the Grote Markt to the Houtplein in the direction of the Haarlemmerhout woods. History The street runs along one of two old parallel roads running through the city on either side ...

to the Frankestraat. The lane is famous as the former living quarters of

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

and other Haarlem artists, though it was changed unrecognizably when the Mennonite church was built there in the 17th century.De straat waarin wij in Haarlem wonen; geschiedenis en verklaring der Haarlemse straatnamen,

G. H. Kurtz Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz (1899–1989) was a Dutch historian, writer and archivist. She published under the name, G.H. Kurtz. Early years Gerda Kurtz was born in Amsterdam, and moved to Haarlem with her family at age seven. She studied at a girls' ...

, 1965

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