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The Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde (Dutch: Prinselijk Begijnhof Ten Wijngaerde) is the only preserved beguinage in Bruges, Belgium. There are no more beguines living there, but since 1927, it has functioned as a convent for Benedictines, founded by canon Hoornaert. In the same year, the houses at the west side were also reshaped and enlarged ...
A beguinage, from the French term béguinage, is an architectural complex which was created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world. Originally the beguine institution was the convent, an association of beguines living together or in close proximity of each other under the ...
At the end of the 18th century, the French occupiers of Bruges threw out the bishop of Bruges and destroyed the Sint-Donaaskathedraal, which was his residence. [2] In 1834, shortly after Belgium's independence in 1830, a new bishop was installed in Bruges and St. Salvator's Church obtained the status of cathedral. However, the building's ...
Excerpt from a manuscript of the beguinage of Sint-Aubertus, Ghent, c. 1840. [1] Print of a Beguine in Des dodes dantz of Matthäus Brandis, Lübeck 1489 The Beguines ( / b eɪ ˈ ɡ iː n z , ˈ b ɛ ɡ iː n z / ) and the Beghards ( / ˈ b ɛ ɡ ər d z , b ə ˈ ɡ ɑːr d z / ) were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Western ...
The last houses of the beguinage disappeared in 1856. The church was designated a historic monument on 5 March 1936. [ 2 ] In 1998, the tragic expulsion of the Nigerian asylum seeker Semira Adamu , who died after police violence, triggered the occupation of the church from October 1998 to January 1999 by political refugee candidates awaiting ...
Brugse Vrije. Coordinates: 51°12′30.16″N 3°13′39.25″E. Map of the Brugse Vrije, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, published in 1664. The Brugse Vrije was a castellany in the county of Flanders, often called in English " the Franc of Bruges ". It included the area around Bruges, and was bordered by the North Sea, the Westerschelde and the Yser ...
Coordinates: 51°09′35″N 3°09′32″E. St. Andrew's Abbey, Bruges (Dutch: Sint-Andriesabdij Brugge) was a Benedictine abbey in Sint-Andries, Bruges, Belgium, which was destroyed in the French Revolution. Its modern successor St. Andrew's Abbey, Zevenkerken (Dutch: Sint-Andriesabdij van Zevenkerken), founded in 1899–1900, is a ...
Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges. The Procession of the Holy Blood (Dutch: Heilig Bloedprocessie) is a large religious Catholic procession, dating back to the Middle Ages, which takes place each Ascension Day in Bruges, Belgium. In 2009, it was included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.