The Cranenburg House (also Craenenburg) is a historic building located on the
Markt (main square) of
Bruges
Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population.
The area of the whole city a ...
, Belgium. The building is now a café with a historicised facade by M. Vermeersch from 1956.
[https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/29465 Inventory of Flanders Real Property: Huis Craenenburg (in Dutch), retrieved 23 May 2020]
George W. T. Omond's
Bruges and West Flanders' (1906), illustrated by Amédée Forestier, refers to the building: ''Cranenburg, from the windows of which, in olden times, the
Counts of Flanders
The count of Flanders was the ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders, beginning in the 9th century. Later, the title would be held for a time, by the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. During the French Revolution, in 1790, the co ...
, with the lords and ladies of their Court, used to watch the tournaments and pageants for which Bruges was celebrated, and in which
Maximilian was imprisoned by the burghers in 1488. But the Cranenburg, once the 'most magnificent private residence in the Market-Place,' many years ago lost every trace of its original splendour, and is now an unattractive hostelry, the headquarters of a smoking club; while the ''Hôtel de Bouchoute'', turned into a clothier's shop, has little to distinguish it from its commonplace neighbours.''
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Buildings and structures in Bruges
Tourist attractions in Bruges