The rei runs from the meeting of the Groenerei and the Coupure to the Spiegelrei.
The street of the same name is located on the eastern bank and runs from Minneboplein and Leffingestraat to Carmersbrug and Carmersstraat. The Verversdijk is located on the western bank. The Sint-Annarei is spanned by the Molenbrug, the Sint-Annabrug and the Strobrug.
The name "Sint-Annarei" refers to the district and parish of Sint-Anna adjacent to the east. Originally the street west of the rei (now Verversdijk) was called the Schottendijk, because of the Scottish merchants established there.
There is little clarity about the artificiality of the Sint-Annarei. It may be the canalization of the lower reaches of the Vuldersreitje, a watercourse that came from Assebroek. From 1127 the Sint-Annarei was part of the first city walls of Bruges.
The Oude Molenpoort was located near the Molenbrug. Between 1623 and 1855 the Sint-Annarei was part of the canal between Ostend, Bruges and Ghent. The Ringvaart then took over this role. In 1750, all bridges over the Sint-Annarei were replaced by wooden (and later iron) swing bridges to allow passage for larger ships. In the 1970s the bridges were again replaced by the current stone bridges.
The former warehouse number 4 still bears witness to the medieval trading activities. The street also had two important breweries: brewery Den Hert, in house number 17, and brewery Den Arend, later brewery Aigle Belgica, in buildings numbers 23-27.
The Rococo house at number 22 of Sint-Annarei was inhabited in the nineteenth/twentieth century by doctor and art collector Désiré De Meyer, son of the surgeon and art collector Isaac De Meyer, and after him by the war pilot and brewer André De Meulemeester.
This house and the adjacent Blekersstraat were the setting for two well-known films: L’Empreinte de Dieu, after the book of the same name (Prix Goncourt 1936) by Maxence Van der Meersch, and The Nun’s Story, a film by Fred Zinnemann with Audrey Hepburn.
Posted by Daniel Mennerich on 2022-04-14 19:15:26
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