Delft Off The Beaten Path

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The current Oostpoort or East Gate was built around 1400. It is a lightly built gate with a high-ceilinged area on the ground floor. Shots could be fired from this room through loopholes. The stairs are in a separate stairs tower, from which the battlement parapets of the adjacent city walls could be reached. Above the tower there was a waiting room. The gate is connected with the water gate by a piece of city wall. The water gate has a passage that could be closed off with gates. On the field side, above middle, a machicolation has been preserved.

In 1514 the towers were raised with a hexagonal floor and given a steep spire. Between 1962 and 1964 the gate was restored and turned into a double studio house. Later the houses were joined into one house, because the living space was too small. Since 1988 the former battlement parapet has been open as an exhibition area.

An unknown museum within Delft can actually more be compared with a art gallery. this is the P.T. van Elven museum, that shows a collection of this man that left a wonderful decorated and furnished canal house to the people from today. There are also some artworks from various artists. For art lovers and historical intrested people, it is quite interest to stop here and find out about how they used to live about a century ago.

Address: Koornmarkt 67 2611 EC DELFT

A bit out of the route are also some monuments. They are clustered close to one another in the Norther section of the old town centre. It should be disrespectful to not mention them at least on these pages, so here I name them shortly.
Saint Huybregts tower: is one of the three remaining city wall towers and or gates. It's a simple round construction and dates back to 1500.
The old Artillery Depot: part of the Armamentarium, here some highly explosive stuff was stored well outside the main centre of town, besides some heavy canons that in case of a sudden attack were already available on the north side of town. Now, here too, is a small museum.
The old University Library: Delft is a university town and well known for it's TU (Technical University), that holds a high ranking position in the world of engineering. The old library is a beautiful building, holding a vast collecton of books and literature over many centuries. A treasure of knowledge.

Just outside the center at the other side of the highway you can visit a "kinderboerderij" (childrensfarm).
It a farm where you can pet animals like rabbits, goats, sheep, birds etc. An ideal place to learn you children about the animals that live on a farm.
At the entrance is a restaurant where you can have real Dutch pancakes.

Have a nice view at Den Haag and Rotterdam from the upper floor of the red/blue coloured multistory high TU Delft building south of the citycentre. Take the bus or simply walk to the south starting at the huge C1000 supermarket on the southside of the citycentre. The entrance is free and the view amazing.

Follow Oude Delft to the top and cross the main road. Just to the right of the watertower you will find the grave of "Louis 17th , King of France" !

Karl Wilhelm Naundorff maintained until his death that he was the "Lost Dauphin" , the child of Marie Antoinette.

Recent DNA testing has been inconclusive. Obviously he had some sympathsisers when died , as can be seen from the name on the Tomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Naundorff

It was somewhere in May 1997. Delft and its citizens welcomed the president of the USA. Mister President Bill Clinton himself walked together with his wife in a sudden moment, not announced, over the Grote Markt, the cozy and lively market place right in the heart of Delft.

They stopped at Het Wapen Van Delft, a small restaurant where they ordered "poffertjes", a Dutch delicacy which are buttered and sugared tiny little pancakes, with strawberries ...

The restaurant was not that surprised, took some photographs with fun and joy and, still showing the photograph with fun and joy. Everybody should know Mister President Bill Clinton himself was here... to have some Delft "poffertjes" ...

There are always questions unanswered, even when doing research deep and intensive. On the Oude Delft, in oposit direction of the route that I described in my To-Do-tips is another church throwing it's thin tower into the air. However, I cannot tell you the name, as I just couldn't find it. So, if someone (a local maybe) knows what the name and relgion is of this church, I will be very happy and complete this tip.
Daniel_NL answered: the church on the photo is called the "Lutherse Kerk". As the name indicates it belongs the to Lutheran community and was built around 1450 and partly rebuilt in 1764.