Utrecht Payenborch

In the Middle Ages Utrecht already new big houses decorated with turrets and battlements.

These houses were called 'town castles'.

One of these houses is Payenborgh, with next to it Small Payenborgh at Oude Gracht 320.

Because of costs of energy and cleaning and so on, the owners of these houses had big meetings and parties in the big house, but mostly lived their daily life in the small building.

Along the Oude Gracht you see more of these double houses.

The name is from the family Paye, who lived here from the middle of the 14th century till the end of the 15th century.

The frame of the door is from the 18th century. In 1830 the windows were replaced and the front plastered.

In 1909 the university bought the building to start an education for dental surgery.

20 Years later the education was moved to the Jutfaseweg.

On the pictures the front of the building and an old dentist chair