At lunchroom Den Witten Haen you can enjoy a delicious lunch, coffee, not to mention homemade delicacies or a cozy high tea. Experience the cozy atmosphere of the lunchroom on the Groenmarkt, where they work with special employees. Lunchroom Den witten Haen is in fact an initiative of Philadelphia care. They work with people who have a distance to the labor market. Is the weather good, then it is extra good to stay at this lunchroom in Dordrecht. This can be done, for example, on the terrace in the quiet city garden in the middle of the city center. Looking for a location for a party or a room for a meeting? This is also among the possibilities at Den Witten Haen and not without merit, as there are fine options available, with all sorts of possibilities.
Meeting Venue
Den Witten Haen is an excellent choice for a meeting.The venue features beautiful meeting rooms: the Stoopkamer, the Groene Kamer, the Gijs van Aardennezaal, and the Tuinkamer, which overlooks the lovely courtyard garden—all adorned with stunning ceiling decorations. Plenty of options to choose from! For a pleasant break during the day, the Den Witten Haen lunchroom invites you to come experience the venue’s unique ambiance for yourself.
History of
Schefferstaete is located in four adjacent buildings: Groenmarkt 11 through 21.
At 14.9 meters wide, Groenmarkt 17 is the widest building on the street. It was built in the last quarter of the 18th century on a site where two or perhaps three houses had previously stood. In any case, the buildings known as “Jerusalem” and “Den Rooden Schild” were located there. “Jerusalem” was the residence of the well-known Dordrecht councilman Cornelis van Beveren. He sold it in 1749 for 16,375 guilders. The current residence, commissioned by a mayor, came into the possession of the Amsterdamsche Bank in 1922. More than thirty years later, in 1954, the Chamber of Commerce moved in.
The narrow building at number 19 has no side walls of its own; instead, it shares walls with both neighboring buildings. In the early nineteenth century, it housed a grocery store and later an office.
The building furthest to the left on Schefferstaete, number 21, is the oldest of the four. It was built in 1720 for Hugo Eelbo, a councilman from Dordrecht, on the site where a brewery called Den Witten Haen once stood. The house, which is 13.4 meters wide, was converted into the Huize Johanna retirement home in 1935. The dormitories could accommodate a total of thirty to forty elderly residents. The house remained in the hands of the diaconate of the Reformed Church until the 1970s.
Then it became vacant and a number of squatters moved in. In 1984, the Chamber of Commerce took care of the building. The rightmost building - numbers 11, 13 and 15 - was a house until master blacksmith Jacob Lips started a shop in it in 1880. He sold household goods from the smithy, such as cookers, stoves, bicycles and prams. Later, Lips produced his famous safes there for some time.
