10 Sights in Middelburg, Netherlands (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Middelburg, Netherlands. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 10 sights are available in Middelburg, Netherlands.
Sightseeing Tours in Middelburg1. Stadhuis
Middelburg Town Hall is situated at the market of Middelburg, Zeeland. It is considered one of the finest Gothic buildings in the Netherlands. Construction began in 1452 and was supervised by several generations of the Flemish family of architects Keldermans. Construction was completed in 1520, the town hall received a facade with Gothic windows, red-white shutters, smaller turrets and twenty-five statues of Zeeland's counts and countesses. The building has one main tower, which the Middelburgers call 'Malle Betje'. This mocking name comes from the fact it used to run behind the town's other clock tower, the 'lange Jan'. A meat-auction or 'meathall' used to be situated in the building, which had a separate entrance. Whereas the town hall itself is still used for weddings, since 2004 its spaces are in use by the University College Roosevelt, the local university. The former meat hall has been in use as an exhibition space for the SBKM since 1980.
2. De Seismolen
The Seismolen is a former flour mill in the Dutch city of Middelburg. It is a round stone windmill that was built in 1728 and is therefore the oldest of the mills still present in Middelburg. After a severe storm in November 1940 and subsequent neglect, the mill fell into disrepair. From 1955, when the mill became the property of the municipality, the masonry was restored. It was only after a restoration in 2000-2001 that the mill became millable again: in the Seismolen there are 2 pairs of 16der artificial and 1 pair of 16der bluestones.
3. Koepoort
The Koepoort in Middelburg is, of the eight city gates once present, the only one that has been preserved in its entirety. The gate, built in the late Louis XIV style, was designed by architect Jan Pieter van Baurscheidt the Younger and city architect Jan de Munck. The gate was built in the first half of the eighteenth century and was the successor of several earlier cow gates. Where the earlier gates served as defensive works, the new gate mainly served as an ornamental gate.
4. Sint-Augustinuskerk
St. Augustine's Church is a hall church without a tower in Middelburg, Zeeland. The church was designed by city architect Jan de Munck for the benefit of the Lutheran congregation in Middelburg. Construction began in 1740 and in 1742 the Lutheran Church was inaugurated. In 2014, the church was sold to the Old Catholic Church and taken into use by them, after which the church was dedicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo.
5. De Hoop
De Hoop is a former windmill in the village of Sint Laurens in Zeeland. The mill was built in 1721 as a flour mill and burned down in 1943 because the vang was heating up. The mill was designated a national monument in 2002 because in the past this mill could be powered by wind power as well as by a diesel engine as well as by an electric motor.
6. Herenstraat
The synagogue of Middelburg is located in the area between the Sint Janstraat and the Herenstraat. It was built in 1705 in the backyard of the home of the Jewish merchant Benjamin Levie. The entrance is now in the Herenstraat. It is the first synagogue to be built outside of Amsterdam on Dutch soil.
7. Koorkerk
The Koorkerk is a part of the former abbey of Middelburg. The church is so called because it consists of the choir of the abbey church; the rest of the church forms the Nieuwe Kerk. Until the Reformation, the church was reserved for monks and the Nieuwe Kerk for parishioners.
8. Nieuwe Kerk
The Nieuwe Kerk is a church that is part of the former abbey of Middelburg in the center of the Zeeland capital Middelburg. Next to the church is the tower Lange Jan and the Koorkerk. The New Church was used by the parishioners, the Choir Church by the monastics.
9. Jan Morks
Johannes (Jan) Morks was a Dutch composer, music teacher, conductor, organist, carillonneur and clarinettist. He was best known as a conductor and composer of the melody of the Zeeland national anthem on a text by Daniël Adrianus Poldermans.
10. Petrus en Pauluskerk
The Petrus en Pauluskerk is a Roman Catholic church in Middelburg, and parish church of Walcheren, located on the Lombardstraat. The building, built in neo-Romanesque style after the Bossche School, was inaugurated in 1951.
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