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St. Walburga Church

St. Walburga Church

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Location: East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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Dominiek Van Dooren

June 10, 2025

Certainly, there was already a count's castle chapel here in the first half of the eleventh century. This was built on the outer bend of the Scheldt bend at the Meerspoort, which had only been filled in between 1963 and 1970, and was dedicated to Saint Walburga, an English nun (710-779) who evangelized in southern Germany. In 1127, the church was reduced to ashes and, after being rebuilt in Tournai stone, was reconsecrated in 1159. It had a rectangular choir and a crossing tower.

(Information board on site)

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Willem VS

December 6, 2020

The Sint-Walburgakerk is an icon in the Oudenaarde cityscape and far beyond. You can see the majestic tower in many places in the Flemish Ardennes. After an earlier example was destroyed by fire in 1116, reconstruction started in 1150. In 1414 there were plans to rebuild the church in Brabant Gothic, but these were only partly carried out due to a lack of money (only the benden church and the tower). A Baroque spire was installed in 1620, but when it burned down after a lightning strike in 1804, they did without it. Not only does it seem so, but you can actually see two half-churches built against each other. The oldest part consists largely of Tournai stone, the younger part of Balegem stone.

Even inside you sometimes think that the building consists of two parts because of the contrast between the high and clear nave with the lower and dark early Gothic choir. Although much was lost during the Iconoclasm in the 16th century, there is still quite a wealth of works of art to admire, especially baroque. You will see numerous sculptures (in wood and stone), old tapestries and paintings. In the side chapels, dedicated to saints, are wooden and marble altars.

(travelroutes.be)

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Katrien

December 28, 2021

The 88-meter-high tower of St. Walburga Church can be seen from far away. This beautiful

strangely enough, a piece of history consists of two half-churches. From the early Gothic

church from the 12th century, only the choir part in Tournai limestone has been preserved. The rest of the lower church is a gem of 15th-century Brabant Gothic.

Source: oudenaarde.be

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Location: East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

St. Walburga Church

1. Deurnis Art Installation – Path Between Field and Forest loop from Oudenaarde

2. Donkmeer – St. Walburga Church loop from Pamele

3. View of the Flemish Ardennes – Our Lady of Pamele loop from Oudenaarde

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