Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden

The Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden is a museum and previous hofje in Leerdam, Netherlands, at the Kerkstraat numbers 57 and 89. It changed into built during the years 1770 to 1772 on the previous vicinity of the Kasteel van Leerdam, a fort that changed into destroyed by the Spanish in 1574. The hofje become based by using Maria Ponderus, the daughter of a health care professional who at 20 married the 50 year old widower Pieter van Aerden, notary in The Hague.

She lived to 92, surviving her husband and three children, who additionally had no difficulty. She decided to depart her fortune to a hofje for girls of the Protestant religion. Though she had intended her hofje for the negative of The Hague, by the point she died the most of her bad members of the family were residing in Leerdam. Through connections with the House of Orange, the web page of the vintage castle of Leerdam became selected to construct the hofje.