Kreuzherrenkirche (Sint Agatha)

The Kreuzherrenkirche from the northeast

View of the cloister courtyard and the church

The Roman Catholic Kreuzherrenkirche is the monastery church of the Kreuzherrenkloster Sint Agatha in the district of the same name in the city of Cuijk in the Dutch province of North Brabant . The church is located directly behind a Meuse dike .

history

The Kreuzherrenkloster Sint Agatha was founded in 1371. The single-nave late Gothic monastery church dates from the second half of the 15th century and was extended by three bays around 1500. In the course of the Eighty Years' War , the church and monastery were severely damaged and looted several times due to their strategic location, especially in 1584. In 1606 they were restored. In 1637–39 and 1644 the Lords of the Cross had to leave the monastery, and in 1653 they were finally resettled. In the French era , the admission of novices was forbidden; King Wilhelm II lifted this ban in 1840. This was followed by a new heyday of religious life and the establishment of daughter monasteries overseas. In 1944 the neo-Gothic furnishings of the monastery church were lost due to the war. In 2006 the working group of the Dutch religious orders in Sint Agatha set up the Erfgoedcentrum voor Nederlands Kloosterleven ("Heritage site for Dutch monastic life").

organ

The organ , a small positive organ, was built in 1899 by the organ builder FC Smits for the monastery church by Son van de Befers van Liefde van Schijndel. In 1935 the instrument was installed in the chapel of the Lidwina monastery in Schijndel and served there until 1994. In 2002 the organ was restored and brought to the Sint Servatiuskerk in Wijbosch as a choir organ. In 2014 the organ was then extensively restored by the organ builder Jan Bambacht and installed in the Kreuzherrenkirche Sint Agatha. The slider chest instrument has 7 stops on a manual (Schwellwerk C – f ³ : Prestant 8 ′, Gamba 8 ′, Voix-Celeste 8 ′, Bourdon 8 ′, Octaaf 4 ′, Roerfluit 4 ′ and Trumpet 8 ′). The pedal (C – f ⁰ ) is attached. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

See also

• List of Gothic brick structures in the Netherlands

literature

• Monuments in Nederland. Noord-Brabant , ed. v. Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist / Zwolle 1997, p. 128., available as a PDF for free download from the digital bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the organ (Dutch)

Web links

Commons : Kreuzherrenkloster Sint Agatha  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the monastery (Dutch)
• Description No. 11630 in the monument database of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 49.2 "  N , 5 ° 55 ′ 2"  E