Church of Our Lady (Sint-Niklaas)
The Church of Our Lady of the Aid of Christians (Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Bijstand-der-Christenenkerk) is a historicist style church in the Belgian town of Sint-Niklaas . The catholic three-aisled cruciform church was designed by the Ghent city architect Louis Roelandt (1786–1864) together with his student Louis Van Overstraeten , built from 1841 to 1844 and then consecrated to the patronage of Mary, Help of Christians . The church is built in a mixed style. The neo-Romanesque- Byzantine style dominates, which was supplemented with Gothic elements. The church was only completed in 1896 when a six-meter-high statue of the Virgin Mary was erected on the 50-meter-high church tower .
From the outside, the rather sober, gray appearance of the church, built from the Brabant limestone quarried in Gobertange , dominates . The polychrome interior stands in stark contrast to this . This was last restored from 1994 to 1998 and forms a harmonious whole with the neo-Byzantine architecture.
The Liebfrauenkirche has been a listed building since 1973.
In 2014 a pair of peregrine falcons brooded in the church tower for the first time . Unfortunately they did not breed successfully.
Liebfrauenkirche from the outside
Mary statue on the tower
Church and tower from the east
Architect Lois Roelandt
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 55 ″ N , 4 ° 8 ′ 16 ″ E