Munsterkerk

The Munsterkerk is a thirteenth-century church dedicated to Our Lady in the Dutch metropolis of Roermond. Its remarkable the front towers are 55 meter in top. The Munsterkerk is one of the maximum critical instance of Late Romanesque architecture within the Netherlands. The Roermond Minster is the simplest surviving a part of an abbey, the relaxation of which become demolished in 1924. The church turned into renovated by architect P. J. H. Cuypers among 1863 and 1890; in the course of this maintenance the two front towers were brought while after a smaller baroque bell tower on the nave was eliminated, and the at first octagonal japanese towers had been changed with the aid of square ones.

The protection of the Roermond Minster became highly controversial, but Cuypers persisted to renovate the Minster according to his plan. In 1992, the church changed into broken by way of an earthquake which destroyed the two japanese towers, which have been rebuilt quickly after. The church is a Rijksmonument, and is part of the Top 100 Dutch historical past websites.