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{{Short description|Hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands}}
[[Image:Hofje van Noblet Entrance.jpg|thumb|right|Front entrance of the hofje.]]
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 | caption=The [[Hofje van Staats]] is on the Jansstraat, and the Hofje van Noblet is on the Nieuwe Gracht, overlooking the Spaarne river.
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The '''Hofje van Noblet''' is a [[hofje]] in [[Haarlem]], [[Netherlands]].

==History==
[[File:Haarlem, molen de Adriaan foto2 2015-01-04 09.37.jpg|thumb|The hofje (center) is situated on the corner of the Spaarne river and the Nieuwe Gracht canal and the Regents' rooms overlook Haarlem and the Spaarne (thus the name ''Haerlem en Spaargesigt'')]]
[[File:Haarlem-Regentenkamer-Hofe van Noblet-portretten.jpg|thumb|left|A regent of the hofje posing next to his portrait in the regent's room of the Hofje van Noblet.]]
[[File:Hofje van Noblet.jpg|thumb|left|The Hofje van Noblet.]]
[[File:Haarlem-Hofje van Noblet-regentenlijst.jpg|thumb|Name board "'T Hofje van Noblet begonnen 1758 volbouwt 1760" with the list of names of the regents of the Hofjes Staats and Noblet, starting in 1758-1760]]
It was built in 1761 from the legacy of Leonard Noblet and his sisters Sara en Geertruida. The houses in the hofje are built in the garden of the house of the Noblet family, ''Haerlem en Spaargesigt''. The father of Leonard, Elezar Noblet, bought it in 1737. The Noblet family originally came from Amsterdam. Because Leonard, Sara and Geertruida had no legal heirs, they decided to construct a common last will. They wrote that they wanted to found a hofje, and that the governors of the nearby [[Hofje van Staats]] would be the executors of their will.

The hofje was built with 20 houses. Ten for women from Haarlem, on the east-side of the hof, and ten for women from Amsterdam, at the west-side. The women living there had to be at least 50 years old, had to have been single their whole life and had to have been a member of the ''Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk'', an old name of the [[Dutch Reformed Church]].

A part of the original house of the Noblet family serves as the house of the supervisor of the hofje, another part is the official housing of the governors (regents) of the hofje (who are also the governors of the Hofje van Staats).

The main entrance of the hofje is located on the Nieuwe Gracht overlooking the Spaarne river and there is a back entrance on the Parklaan. When the hofje was built that was not called the Parklaan, but 'Achter Nieuwe Gracht,' a canal. The entrance to the old house of the Noblet family is located on the Hooimarkt. An original drawing of the [[Hofje van Staats]], as well as items from that hofje's history, are located in the hall and regent's room of the Hofje van Noblet, whose finances are also managed by the same "Foundation for the preservation of the Hofjes Staats and Noblet." Above the doorway to the Regent's room, a board with the list of names of the regents hangs with the dates of their appointment, which are also the dates of their oval portraits that hang in the two front rooms.

==List of regents and their portraits==
{| 
| style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Regent's name'''
| style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Oval portrait artist'''
| style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Year/link to portrait'''
|-
| Andries Heshuysen||[[Frans Decker]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132405 1724]
|-
| Salomon Focke||Frans Decker||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/123209 1750]
|-
| Salomon Krul||[[Tako Hajo Jelgersma]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/123252 ca 1750]
|-
| Herman Draveman||Tako Hajo Jelgersma||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/123200 1756]
|-
| [[Gerrit Willem van Oosten de Bruyn]]||Tako Hajo Jelgersma||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/129601 1764]
|-
| Nicolaas Galle||Tako Hajo Jelgersma||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/123211 1768]
|-
| Cornelis de Graat||Tako Hajo Jelgersma||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132407 1768]
|-
| Arent Jan van Eybergen||[[Wybrand Hendriks]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/123208 1786]
|-
| Jacob van Varelen||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/129214 1786]
|-
| [[Johannes Enschedé II]]||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132505 1791]
|-
| Victor Jacobus Berkhout||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132408 1797]
|-
| Pieter Samuel Crommelin||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/129215 1800]
|-
| Pieter Jacob van Eybergen||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132409 1804]
|-
| [[Johannes Enschedé III]]||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/125013 ca.1825]
|-
| Cornelius Johannes de Bruyn Kops||Wybrand Hendriks||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132410 ca.1825]
|-
| Daniel Frans Crommelin||[[Jan Adam Kruseman]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132411 1825]
|-
| Marten Adriaan Beels||Jan Adam Kruseman||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132412 1825]
|-
| Willem Gerrit de Bruyn Kops||[[Antonie Frederik Zürcher]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132413 ca. 1860]
|-
| Jacobus Willem Maurits van de Poll||Antonie Frederik Zürcher||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132414 ca. 1860]
|-
| Adriaan Volkert Teding van Berkhout||[[Antonie Frederik Zürcher]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132415 1861]
|-
| [[Johannes Enschedé IV]]||[[Johan Heinrich Neuman]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132416 ca.1865]
|-
| Johannes Enschedé V||A.J. Zurel||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132417 ca. 1875]
|-
| Floris Willem van Styrum||Anthonie Jacobus van Wijngaerdt||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132418 1888]
|-
| Willem Philip Teding van Berkhout||Hendrik Antoon Pothast||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132419 1884]
|-
| Charles Fredrik van de Poll||Wim ter Reehorst||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132422 1905]
|-
| Eduard Henri Elisa Teding van Berkhout||Unknown||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132420 1906]
|-
| Gijsbert van Tienhoven||Hagedoorn||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132423 1921]
|-
| Johannes Enschede (1879-1938)||Unknown||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132421 ca.1925]
|-
| Floris Willem van Styrum||Harie Jonas||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132424 1932]
|-
| Samuel Crommelin||[[Gerrit David Gratama]]||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132425 1934]
|-
| Boudewijn Franciscus Enschede||Unknown||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132426 ca. 1940]
|-
| Bernard Gertrudus van Styrum||Hendrik Jan Wesseling||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132427 1941]
|-
| Emile Jules Strick van Linschoten||Hendrik Jan Wesseling||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132428 1942]
|-
| Bartold Willem Floris van Riemsdijk||Jaap Pander||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132429 1947]
|-
| Willem Hendrik Bierman||John Brinkworth||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132430 1951]
|-
| Eco Deodaat Haitsma Mulier||Aleid Slingerland||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132431 1972]
|-
| Louis Willem Pahud de Mortanges||Aleid Slingerland||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132432 1977]
|-
| Dirk Johan Enschede||F. van Oordt||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132433 ca. 1980]
|-
| Albertus Huijsman||Aleid Slingerland||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132434 1984]
|-
| Johan Herman Bijl de Vroe||Aleid Slingerland||[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/132435 1986]
|-
| 
|}

The hofje was renovated in 1992, when the number of houses was reduced from 20 to 16 to allow for modern living requirements.

Address: Nieuwe Gracht 2
{{commons category}}
{{Rijksmonument|19579}}

==References==

* ''Haarlems hofjes'', Dr. [[G. H. Kurtz]], Schuyt & Co C.V., Haarlem, 1972, {{ISBN|90-6097-027-6}}
* ''Door gangen en poorten naar de hofjes van Haarlem'', L. Peetorn and L. van der Hoek, Stichting Uitgeverij Barabinsk Leiden, 2001, {{ISBN|90-73983-17-7}}

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