Church of Our Lady (Kortrijk)
The Church of Our Lady ( Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk ) is a Gothic church in the Belgian city of Kortrijk .
History and architecture
The nucleus of today's church was a castle chapel of the Counts of Flanders . It was in the years 1203–1205, after the departure of Baldwin IX. for the fourth crusade , built as a hall church. Around 1250, a transept , a three- nave nave with remarkable triforias and two west towers were added to the west in the early Gothic style , so that the chapel became the choir of the new complex. From 1300 it was replaced by a high Gothic choir with ambulatory and chapel wreath, the length of which exceeds that of the nave.
From 1370, Ludwig von Male had the Count's Chapel built as a burial place for himself and his descendants to the south of the choir, based on the model of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris .
After the Battle of Roosebeke in 1382, the castle was destroyed. The church suffered severe fire damage; its restoration began in 1410. In 1578 the furnishings were destroyed by a Protestant iconoclasm .
On July 21, 1944, the church was bombed and damaged the north side. After the war it was restored true to the original.
In the church there are, among other things, pictures by the baroque painter Anthonis van Dyck .
Web links
- Baugeschichte (English)
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 45 ″ N , 3 ° 16 ′ 2 ″ E