Muurhuizen

The Muurhuizen is a famous street in Amersfoort. The name means wallhouses, because the houses are made of the first citywall.

In this street you find manny different types of houses, the one above has a small tower on it.

This picture shows that the street is going round, at the other side of the houses is a channel going arround the old center.

The street is also kinda small for modern day traffic, so most of it is one way traffic. But what can you expect, the first citywall got build at the late 13th centruy. In the year 1380 they started on the second citywall, and they finished it in 1440.

During the build of the second citywall, they started to replace the first wall by these houses.