Katharinenhof Kranenburg

The Katharinenhof in Kranenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was used from 1446 until 1802 as the home of a convent of sisters of the Catholic Church.

It was in 1445 that Henrik Housteen, who then was the chef of the kitchen of the duke of Kleve, donated to the nuns the house in the millstreet (Mühlenstraße) in Kranenburg, so that they could found a subsidiary of their convent there.

After the convent was closed, the monastery-building served temporarily as a police office and finally was furbished up to be used as a school-building.

After the Second World War the building, which was only shopworn, was used as a compensatory church.

In 1984 the building got an outbuilding, which allows for a larger exhibition space of the museum.