The cloth merchant Carolus Bélier, Huguenot and Calvinist, from Tournai built the residential- and business house in 1592, on an already existing basement. Bélier left the intolerant France with his family and was then welcomed in Heidelberg by the elector Friedrich III. The house, which is facing the Heiliggeist-Church and that is situated right by the town square, was built in honour of his wife Fracina. The architect that designed the building and the art-builders that completed the façade of it are unknown.
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