Bruntenhof
Seventeenth-century almshouse court of fifteen one-room homes around a resident-tended herb garden.
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This guide to the Bruntenhof in Utrecht starts in the herb garden behind a row of fifteen tiny one-room houses, built in sixteen twenty-one by the lawyer Frederik Brunt for poor widows. It follows the widows who lived here, the box beds that survived a twentieth-century restoration, and a woman named Hillegonda Schoormond who wrote a will in seventeen forty-two. Best heard from the garden path, facing the low row of doors.
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