Geel - Sint-Dimpnakerk

Situated on the road to Mol, Sint-Dimpnakerk is late Gothic, built 1349-1479. The massive tower (16th C.) made of alternating white sandstone and brown ironstone was never finished.

The church's art treasures include the Sint-Dimpna retable of 1515 on the main altar with fine wood carving, a Brabant retable of the Passion in the right transept (wood; 1490), a stone retable depicting the 12 apostles (14th C.) and the silver reliquaries of St Dymphna and her confessor, Gerebernus. In the choir the Renaissance mausoleum in marble and alabaster of Jan III de Merode and his wife was the work of Cornelis Floris de Vriendt in 1554. From 1484-1601 Geel was owned by the de Merode family. The so-called "sick room" built against the church