Carmelietenklooster

English translation

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Description

Carmelite convent, founded in 1652 and consisting of four wings enclosing a barrel-vaulted cloister corridor. Gate building between church and convent, with arches and groin vault and with rusticated bond in brick, with Doric pilasters and entablature; in the gate building the access to the castle, executed in classical style entirely in profiled and chamfered brick; with date 1653. Above the passage in this gate building the coats of arms of Count Albert van den Bergh and Madeleine de Cusance. The northern and eastern wings from 1653 and following years, with block bond executed in brick around the windows, which have pointed arched fields enclosed by mouldings, decorated with flat cartouche ornament, carved out in the masonry. Southern and western wings completed in 1707, windows with natural stone surrounds and segmental arches. On the south side the former Gymnasium, built in 1707 (date anchors), on the Steenstraat side crowned by a gable with double-curved arch lines, provided with gable pilaster, a round niche with portrait bust, drip mouldings and natural stone window surrounds. In the cloister corridor, arched with stuccoed groin vaults on corbels, eighteen stained glass panes, restored after wartime damage, possibly after a design by Abraham van Diepenbeeke; the representations, dedicated to Carmel, framed by cartouches and crowned by the coats of arms of the founders (the noble lords and their families); successively as main subject the Carmelite saints Elias, Eliseus, Teleaphorus, Serapion (1634), Anastasius (1655), Gerardus, Joseph (1655), Angelus (1680), Louis (1664), Simon Stock (1655), Francis (1655), Albert (1684), James of the Roses, Peter Thomas, the Procession of Chester (1684), Avertanus and Romaeus, Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi (1664) and the Holy Blood Miracle (1684). Painted portraits of Count Albert van den Bergh, twice his wife Madeleine de Cusance, Count Oswald van den Bergh, his wife Maria Leopoldina van Rietberg, Franz von Hohenzollern van den Bergh, his wife Maria Catharina Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil, Johan Baptist van den Bergh and Hohenzollern, Maria Theresia van den Bergh and Hohenzollern (as canoness of Remiremont). Furthermore paintings Adoration of the Magi (17th century) three times a Crucifixion (all 17th century), Pieta, Emmaus Travellers (17th century). At the rear of the convent the walled cloister garden; a high wall, coped with a saddle back and built in red hand-formed brick in cross bond; in the wall two tile panels with representation of the Mother of God with Child (inscription "DILECTUS MEUS MIHI ET EGO ILLI") and St. Joseph with Child (inscription "ST. JOSEF").