Sint-Catharinakerk - Eindhoven NL
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N 51° 26.212 E 005° 28.755
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Catherine Church is a Roman Catholic church in the center of the Dutch city of Eindhoven.
Waymark Code: WMNWRY
Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Date Posted: 05/14/2015
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Catherine Church is a Roman Catholic church in the center of the Dutch city of Eindhoven , dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria.
The church is located at Catherine's Square, at the beginning of Stratumseind ??and was built to replace the dilapidated medieval St. Catherine's Church.
The current St. Catherine's Church has a known precursor in the same place. However, this church with its choir facing east. Eindhoven was founded in 1232 and previously lived in this place hardly any people. The first residents of the newly founded town was part of the St. Peter Parish in Woensel . Only in 1240 the Eindhoven St. Catherine's Church was first mentioned. Eindhoven thus became an independent parish. In 1399 the St. Catherine Church was elevated to collegiate church . She was object of pilgrimages to an image of Our Lady Presentation . The church cemetery was built.
In the following centuries the church was regularly the target of acts of war: In 1486 she was the Gueldrians fired, and the recovery came only in 1515 ready. In 1526 blew the tower. In 1543 followed again by plundering the Gueldrians led by Maarten van Rossum and in 1554 the church was struck by a city fire. In 1566 took an iconoclastic place where the statue of Mary presentation was destroyed. This was restored later, but was in 1648, following the Peace of Westphalia , the church genaast by the Protestants and transformed into a Protestant church.
The French names, late 18th century the church confiscated and established successively a courtroom, stable and bakery, house and military warehouse. In 1798 the building was returned to the Catholics, and in 1810 it was consecrated. In 1836 came the tower again in possession of the parish. The building, once used by a parish of up to 3,000 people, was found too small, temporary church was put into operation and the old church demolished, without any respect for the past. This began with the construction of the current neo-Gothic church, which was consecrated in 1867.
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