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The Church of Our Lady (Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk) is a Roman Catholic church in Bruges, Belgium, dating mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.Its 115.6-metre-high (379 ft) tower remains the tallest structure in the city and the third tallest brickwork tower in the world (after St. Mary's Church in Lübeck and St. Martin's Church in Landshut, both in Germany).
Bruges had a strategic location at the crossroads of the northern Hanseatic League trade, who had a kontor in the city, and the southern trade routes. Bruges was already included in the circuit of the Flemish and French cloth fairs at the beginning of the 13th century, but when the old system of fairs broke down, the entrepreneurs of Bruges ...
The Belgian church also oversees the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the National Basilica of Belgium. In 2009, Cardinal André-Mutien Léonard was appointed new Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels and thus Belgium's new primate , but only after the 450th anniversary celebration of the Mechelen–Brussels archdiocese and the canonisation of Fr ...
Area of Bruges expanded. [3] Church of Our Lady tower built. [3] 1302 18 May: Bruges Matins (massacre) occurs. French-Flemish Battle of the Golden Spurs fought in Kortrijk; Flemish win. [1] 1303 – Procession of the Holy Blood instituted. 1323–1328 – The Flemish revolt spread to Bruges. 1364 – Les Halles built on the Grote Markt. [4]
An earlier diocese of Bruges was established on 12 May 1558, on territory split off from the Diocese of Tournai, as part of the great Habsburg reform of the church in the then Spanish Low Countries. Its see, St. Donatian's Cathedral, was destroyed in a fire in 1799 during the aftermath of the French Revolution.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady) is a common church dedication in Belgium and the Netherlands and may refer to: Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp), Belgium; Church of Our Lady (Bruges), Belgium; Church of Our Lady (Kortrijk), Belgium; Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Belgium; Kerk van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-de-Dijle, Mechelen, Belgium
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Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis, West Grinstead, West Sussex; Church of our Lady: A Serbian Orthodox, Halifax, West Yorkshire; Our Lady and St Alphonsus Church, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Redditch, Worcestershire