Backgate Groenewoude (Green woods): Some yards of large medieval houses on the Oude Gracht continued as far as Steenweg and Lange Elisabethstraat. For example, this 17th-century gate was the back entrance to the Groenewoude city castle (Oude Gracht 151). From 1929 the writer Clare Lennart (1899-1972) lived in this gatehouse. The Steenweg and her house, where she rented out rooms as a landlady, are central to her novel Huisjes van Kaarten – Houses of Cards (1939). (previous | next | back to album | 2020:10:03 10:39:50 | 49% of an album)