Boudewijntoren and House of Margaretha of Parma

The Baudouin Tower with the House of Margaret of Parma is a historic building on the Markt in the Belgian city of Oudenaarde. The house with its late Gothic facade connects to the 9th-century Boudewijnstoren. The Boudewijnstoren was named after Boudewijn V in the 19th century because it was thought that he was the builder. The Boudewijntoren, however, is a patrician tower that is a remnant of a Romanesque 'stone'. The house was built in the 16th century, on the site of a Romanesque hall building that belonged to that tower. From 1673 a house of worship (hospice) was established for poor boys (as Jan Stalins had ordered in his will in 1647). Since the 19th century, it has been wrongly said that this building was the birthplace of Margaret of Parma. The school was expanded in 1763. After the French Revolution, the house of worship was transferred to the government (Commission of the Civilian Almshouses and later the Commission for Public Assistance). In the 19th century it became a poor school; in the 20th century it housed a catering business. The house has sandstone cross frames, a superstructure with Tudor arches and transverse walls of Tournai stone. It has been a protected monument since 1947.
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