Hasselt - Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk

 
The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwkerk a short distance west of the market is, as far as its art treasures are concerned, of greater importance than the Sint-Quintinuskathedraal. It was built between 1728 and 1740 in a transitionary style between Baroque and Classicism and rebuilt true to the original in 1950-1952 following its bombardment in 1944.

In the interior some notable works of art from the former Cistercian abbey of Herkenkode near Hasselt have been preserved.

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In the transepts are the Baroque tomb of Anna-Catharina de Lamboy, abbess of Herkenrode 1653-1675, by A. Quellin the Younger (1675) and the marble Roccoco tomb of Barbara de Rivière d'Arschot, abbess of Herkenrode 1738-1744, with the bas relief "Resurrection" by L. Delvaux (1744).

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