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Saint Anne's Church, Aldeneik

Saint Anne's Church, Aldeneik

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Saint Anne's Church, Aldeneik

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Location: South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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Didada

April 21, 2022

The sisters Harlindis and Relindis had a wooden church built here as early as the 8th century. There is much to tell about the Romanesque nave, the wood paneling on the ceiling, the Gothic choir, the 14th-century murals, the Gluestone and the many miracles and legends associated with Aldeneik.

Legend: Harlindis and Relindis had collected pebbles from the Meuse to make a lumen mosaic for the church. Fearing their father, Adelhart, they hid the stones under their aprons. When he asked them what they were hiding, the two sisters answered, terrified, "Flowers." Lo and behold, when they opened their apron, it was indeed filled with roses.

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Fausto

September 19, 2020

In Aldeneik is the partly Romanesque, partly Gothic Saint Anne's Church.

Aldeneik is located in a bend of the Meuse, at an altitude of about 30 meters. The area east of Aldeneik has been largely excavated for gravel extraction and now forms a recreational lake.

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Oliver🌍

April 22, 2024

According to tradition, the sisters Harlindis and Relindis founded the Benedictine monastery Eike (or Aldeneik Monastery) around 730 on the domain of their father Adelard, near the Maas and not far from the abbey of Susteren, founded a few years earlier.
The Normans destroyed the women's monastery in the 9th century. The church was rebuilt in the third quarter of the 9th century. To prevent the abbey's goods from falling to local noblemen, Emperor Otto I donated the domain to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. The prince-bishop founded a chapter of secular canons there around the middle of the 10th century. The still partly existing Romanesque church was built in the second half of the 12th century as a collegiate church. Next to it a smaller parish church was built, intended for the common people.
The Our Lady Chapter was moved to Maaseik at the beginning of the Eighty Years' War by order of the Prince Bishop of Liège. In 1571 the canons went in a solemn procession, taking with them the relics, to the St. Catherine's Church in Maaseik, which became the new collegiate church. The old collegiate church of Aldeneik was reduced in size and transformed into a parish church. The old parish church of Aldeneik, as well as the cloister and other chapter buildings, were demolished.
The oldest, largely original part of the former collegiate church is the central nave from the 12th century. The polygonal Gothic choir dates from the 13th or 14th century. The side aisles were probably rebuilt around 1850 by the Maaseik architect Adolph Leemans, after they had been demolished in the course of the 16th or 17th century, probably because the church had become too large due to its change of function. The westwork and the tower were also extensively restored in the 19th century, making it virtually impossible to determine what they looked like before.
Another important restoration was completed in 2010, during which the church furniture was also renewed.

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Will

March 20, 2022

One of the many beautiful churches in Limburg. always worth seeing.

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Saint Anne's Church, Aldeneik

1. Maas River Dike Cycling Path – Thorn — The White Town loop from Maaseik

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