Open Churches Days at
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw
Markt 80
8950 Nieuwkerke (Heuvelland)
Church | XX | | Catholic Church
WWI and the rebuilding of village and church
Exhibition
30 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 and 12.00 - 18.0031 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 and 12.00 - 18.00
01 June 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 and 12.00 - 18.00
In November 2018, a delegation from Canada visited Nieuwkerke to return an altar stone. This stone was rescued from the church's rubble by a Canadian chaplain in 1916 and taken back to his homeland. This led us to dedicate some exhibition panels to WWI and the rebuilding of church and village.
Price
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Raymond Six+32 474 31 27 73
raymondsix@hotmail.com
Other events at Onze-Lieve-Vrouw
Boundary correction 1769
30 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.0031 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
01 June 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
This exhibition highlights the border correction signed in this church in October 1769. In his quest for conquest, the French king Louis XIV occupied Flanders, among other places, in the 17th century. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) annexed the castellany Belle (now Bailleul Fr.) and the castellany Cassel to the French crown. The inhabitants of the present-day Heuvellandse villages of Dranouter, Nieuwkerke and Westouter thus became French subjects in one fell swoop. But in two stages, 1769 and 1780, they came back under the Austrian Netherlands.
Beastly!
30 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.0031 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
01 June 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
Animals are omnipresent in a church building but also outside it. Think of the cockerel as a weather vane or the gargoyles on the gutters. On a walk around the church, you will find a series of information signs, each one clarifying the presence of an animal in the vicinity.
Beggars in the West Quarter
30 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.0031 May 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
01 June 2025 : 10.00 - 12.00 et 12.00 - 18.00
This exhibition outlines the reason for the rise of Protestantism in the 16th century in the West Quarter in about 10 panels. The Geuzen movement was a spontaneous popular revolt against central government and church authority fuelled by exploitation, injustice, famine...
The Church O.L.V. of Nieuwkerke through the ages!
31 May 2025 : 13.30 - 15.30A first church was built here in the 11th century by the monks of St John-ten-Berghe Abbey near Terwaan (Thérouanne N.-Fr.). Since then, this church and the village have experienced troubled times but also moments of glory. You will learn this and much more during this guided visit.
Beastly!
01 June 2025 : 13.30 - 15.30With the compiler of this exhibition, you will take a leisurely stroll through this church and get detailed information around the presence of the many animal images in this church.
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