No castles or knights.
The entry in the production charge register of 1377: 'Ex opposito quandom domus knight carbonary', probably refers to a coal farmer, who was called 'Ridder' (Knight).
Later, 'de ridder' was used as the house name. The present building was built in 1650 by Andrie Loeffs, ensign in the state army (see keystone of the round arch frame of the front door). The architectural style is Maasland renaissance.
In the gicht registers (registers of buying and selling of houses ) but also in the cemetery at the Tongerseweg, there is an inscription which says that the first person to be buried there was the widow Willems, born Zeekaf, from 'de Ridder'.
The marl gable stone, without inscription, but depicting a man on horseback, sword in hand, was removed - as it says in the Maasgouw - 'by the good care of the local monuments committee from the back facade of the house "de Ridder" to the front of Ridderstraat 2 in 1934
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