The Anne Frank house and the Beguine Church

The Anne Frank house which is located in Amsterdam should be visited ideally during the summer.  About eight people from three different families lived here in total silence for more than two years.

This place has great regard in history, the hiding place was found by Otto Frank and he kept them safe here till almost the end of the cold war. The Nazis however, discovered them just almost before the war could get over and deported these people as prisoners to concentration camps. Anne frank was once of the prisoners who died here in the concentration camp.

This was the house in which Anne Frank kept her diary so that she could deal with the boredom that she faced while she was confined to the walls of the house. She used to have dreams that this diary would be published some day.  She had described about the raging Nazi terror that took place outside the confines of her house.

Close to this is the Beguine Court which is enclosed in a courtyard in the main region of Amsterdam which dates back to as early as the fourteenth century. This place has several religious buildings. Also; this place behaves like an area which offers peace and quite compared to the ever bustling and busy Spui square.

Begijnhof was built in the fourteenth century mainly for the residents of the Beguines. This is a catholic order which unmarried or widowed women who would like the life of a pious person without becoming a nun.  The beguines used to care for the sick and educate the poor here in Amsterdam and in return they were offered free lodging.

The part that was called the ‘alteration’ of seventeen fifty eight. The main church here was confiscated from the catholic Beguines for protestant use. This place was also given to the priests during their brief stay in Amsterdam in the year sixteen hundred and seven.

For almost a century, the beguines had to make good without a church. Although in the year, sixteen hundred and seventeen, the beguines began construction of the secret chapel which was somehow authorized by the Protestants but, somehow had to be hidden from the public.

You should definitely check out the many tiny houses that are grouped here are courtyard.  The thirty fourth house year is the oldest house in all of Amsterdam. This place dates from as early as fourteenth century.  This is one of two wooden houses that lie in the city center.  The rest of the houses here were destroyed here in fires. Because of this, there was a law passed against building structures made of all timber. You will find scripture quotes and illustrations that are on the left side of the buildings bible plaque.

The English church which is just across the courtyard number forty eight; which dates back to the year fourteen hundred. These churches did also belong to the beguines. These too were later confiscated in the year fifteen hundred and seventy-eight.