The house was built in the nineteenth century. It fills a narrow space between two other houses. It was given, as if to prove itself, a very proud front. The cellar vaults make one think that another building has been standing on this spot already a long time before. In any case, the street already existed during the reign of Charles V.
At that time, the wealthy Fugger family had a weighing-house in the street. This is what the name of the street is all about : “Ijzeren Waag” means “Iron Weighing-house” or ”Iron Balance”.
The house has been fully restored and again breathes the nineteenth century atmosphere, the time of romanticism. In this period, Belgium was ruled by its first king, Leopold I and his modest wife Louise-Marie. She was the daughter of the French king Louis-Philippe. Being very social, she was given the nickname “Angel of the poor”. The Saint Andrew Quarter being the working-class quarter of Antwerp, we called it after her.
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