The Kloosterkerk is a Gothic brick church in the center of the Dutch city of The Hague . Since the merger of most of the Protestant churches in the Netherlands, it has belonged to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands . Members of the Dutch royal family regularly attend church services here.
Count Albrecht of Bavaria-Holland donated the grounds of the Kloosterkerk to an Amsterdam monastery in 1393 , but they sold it to the Lord von Arkel, who had a castle built here. This led to a conflict with Albrecht, who repurchased the site, had the building demolished and then handed the site over to the Dominicans in Utrecht . They set up a branch here, which they dedicated to Saint Vincentius. Today's church was built as a Dominican monastery church. In 1574 the Dominicans had to move out. The demolition of the monastery and the church prevented protests from the townspeople. A little later, however, parts of the population used the building as a quarry. After government intervention, the church was converted into a horse stable in 1588 and served as a cannon foundry from the following year. Since 1617 the Kloosterkerk has been used for church services again. The remaining monastery buildings were used as an armory and destroyed in an explosion in 1690.
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