Orphanage “Huize Matthijs-Marijke”
Building under a hipped roof, with two dormer windows with wing pieces. Listed facade of four window axes with corner pilasters. Around the window above the door Louis XIV decoration. Above the main frame of the door a polychrome facade stone, dated 1566, on which Christ is depicted in the middle and on the left the house father with orphan boys and on the right the house mother with orphan girls, below which the text: "Be mindful of the orphan; My Rich you will be a partaker"; on either side the coats of arms of the founders Matthijs Aalberts and Mariken Kolff Jorisdochter, below that "Anno 1743". Restored in 1966-1967.
(Documentation National Monuments Register 16646)
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