The house on the corner of the Prinsengracht and Spiegelgracht, nr 564
was build in 1686 by the same builder hat build the neigbouring house
nr. 562. The houses had no communal wall.
The corner house had an old style step-gable and in the front
a stone tablet picturing the castle of Bentem.
In the side wall it used to have a stone tablet with the
name "d'Engel".

  

                     (picture by B.J. Harberts)

The first occupant of the house in 1686 was Barent Englebrecht,
he was a tailor.

23 jan 1694 the house is sold to Hendrik Carli, a wine merchant.

16 jul 1722 Dirk Melchers bought the house for f 4500,- from
Maria van Vilvoorde (widow of Marcus Aurelius Delborgo, heir of Carli).
Dirk Melchers was "tapper" or barkeeper, which suggests the house was
used as a bar.

There is information found that in 1731 Daniël Harberts was baker and
lived in the house, so from now the cornerhouse housed a bakery.
See: Daniël, 11 may 1697 Neder-Elten
     Hendrik, 14 jun 1734 Amsterdam
     Daniël, 14 dec 1757 Amsterdam

23 januari 1751 the house came back to Maria Delborgo,
the house was never totally paid for by Melchers.

27 april 1777 the house was sold to Lodewijk Bogengenheim,
a french bread baker.

Aroung 1945 the bakery was ran by H. Hendriks.

After him it became a branch-store of Balkery vh wed. E.A. Rekers.

In the 1970's the house was restaured and in 1976 the
bakery returned.

  

One of the new occupants after the restaurartion gave commission
to a sculptress (Sjuwke Brinkgreve - Kunst) to make a new stone tablet,
it pictures an Angel and the words "In d'Engel".