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wikipedia wrote:The Gravensteen was built in the early thirteenth century. It serves as a (private) prison for the counts of Holland. In 1463, Philip the Good donated the building to the city of Leiden, and since then it served as prison for Leiden and Rijnland (Rhineland, the rural region around Leiden). From that moment on, death penalties were executed at the square in front of the Gravensteen, the 'Gerecht'. In the 16th and 17th century, the Gravensteen was expanded with extra prisons, and in 1672 a court was added to the building. Over the course of the nineteenth century the building gradually lost its function. The latest death penalty was executed in 1853. (Note from me: a device that resembles a garrote can still be found inside the building! )
In 1955 the Gravensteen got a new life: it became a storage house for books. Soon after that, Leiden University took over the building, and harvested the department of Legal History there. Since 2006, the International Office of Leiden University was harvested there, which was renamed in April 2011 to Student and Educational Affairs.
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