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Flemish Brabant

Remains of the Second Beguinage Church

Flemish Brabant

Remains of the Second Beguinage Church

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Remains of the Second Beguinage Church

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Location: Zoutleeuw, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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February 22, 2025

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In Zoutleeuw too there were beguines and bogaarden ('male' beguines, so to speak). Originally the beguines lived outside the city because otherwise they had to meet certain conditions. At the end of the sixteenth century they bought the grey sisters' convent and in 1604 they built a church there. It later became a school and was demolished in the 1970s, except for these remains - a small piece of tangible history.

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As early as around 1245, Beguines lived in Zoutleeuw. The first Beguinage was located vulnerably outside the city walls along the banks of the Kleine Gete. During the turbulent religious …

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Location: Zoutleeuw, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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