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St Michael's Church

is a church in the Belgian town of Roeselare.It has long been the only parish church in the town.Only since 1872 has half parish added.The church was built in 1504 after a fire was laid in ashes.Since then, the home to all kinds of art.In addition, the church of the deanery.The 65 meters high tower is today one of the characteristic features of the skyline of Roeselare.The tomb of John of Cleves and Johanna Lichtervelde since 2004 to see the back of the church.The location of the tomb had a rather turbulent history.In 1504, the tomb of John of Cleves completed.22 years later, his wife added. In 1850, however, had to make way for the expansion of the church.The monument was given to none other than the lord of Rumbeke.He gave it back to the museum of St. Bavo abbey in Ghent.Only in 1999 the tomb back to St. Michael's Church.It was a place in the right corner of the nave.The church accommodates one of the largest organs in Ontario.In the tower of the church is the bell tower museum.75 clocks and two carillons are located on 12 floors.The church itself hung many paintings. Mioen Bernard , Desire Mergaert, Ferdinand Callebert, Jacob van Oosten, Van Deijck.Everywhere you look you see paintings by big names in history. Finally there is the baroque pulpit.The beautiful carvings, the story of the vineyard of Naboth for.The chair was originally in the church of the Carmelites have been in Bruges.

Saint-Amand Church

is a church in the Belgian town of Roeselare.It was an auxiliary church dedicated to Saint-Amand in a neighborhood on the north side of the station.The church was required by the significant development of the city since 1850.The foundation stone for St. Amand church was laid on 25 October 1869.The ground was by deed of gift from a July 22, 1863 The King of knights Merkem.It had a surface area of ​​1 acre, 2 swords and 60 centiare.For the new church and presbytery had opened a new road, from the Noordstraat walked to the station.The architect, Joseph Schadde, from Antwerp, made ​​the plan of the church in Neo-Romanesque style.

Rumbeke Castle

is a historical building in Rumbeke in West Flanders, Belgium, one of the oldest Renaissance castles in the country.Although most of the building was built during the Renaissance period, on the site of a far older fortress, it gained some slightly Neoclassical features after its renovation during the 18th century.During those renovations, the adjacent forest, the Sterrebos or the Star Forest, was added to its grounds.The forest was modelled after the Prater park in Vienna.According to legend, Baldwin Iron Arm, Count of Flanders, kidnapped Judith, the daughter of Charles the Bald in 862 in Senlis and brought her to the fortress that used to be at the very location where the present castle now stands. With the intervention of the Pope, the two lovers married in Auxerre, which then resulted in the creation of the County of Flanders.For centuries, the castle was owned by the counts of Thiennes and Limburg Stirum.The castle of Rumbeke suffered damage during the invasion of Flanders by French king Louis XIV, as well as during the French Revolution and in both world wars more than a century later. In fact, during World War I, it was taken over by the Germans and became for a short period of time, the home of Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, who was credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft in his brightly painted red airplane.The castle can be seen in the movie That Lucky Touch, a comedy which was partially shot in Rumbeke in 1975, starring Roger Moore and Shelley Winters.

Roeselare Bicycle Museum

is a museum in the Belgian town of Roeselare.The museum is dedicated to the history of cycling and the cycling.The museum opened its doors officially on 27 March 1998 at the Polish Square, in the renovated former fire arsenal.Former cyclist Freddy Maertens was from 2000 to 2007 Ambassador of the museum and received a regular guest.The museum offers a historical overview of bicycles from the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (1500), on bikes (1760) and the first velocipedes, tricycles and kick bikes one hundred years later, the introduction of the pneumatic tire by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888 to the modern bicycles.Also, disabled vehicles, bicycles and children's profession are discussed.In addition, the museum offers an exhibition on the first floor of the sport, with various souvenirs, trophies, jerseys, cycling and photographs of former cycling champions.This area is named after a Roeselare cycling champion Jean-Pierre Monsere in 1971 crashed.

weekly Tuesday market

The weekly Tuesday market (AM) is a tradition in Roeselare, hosted at the Grand Place, the Butter Market Square and Poland.These three sites are linked through-traffic lanes.On May 1 there afternoons and entertainment market and the Tuesday after Whit Sinksenmarkt there all day with entertainment.The Flemish character of Roeselare inter alia grown from the figure of Rodenbach is under July 11 (Flemish holiday) put into the paint with a custom program for young and old.

Museum of Alfons Blomme

In Roeselare on the corner of East Street and Delaerestraat an exhibition space, named after the artist Roeselare.Blomme work is also included in the collection of Kaz in Ostend (the merger of the PMMK and MSK in Ostend), including a portrait of Albert Einstein and one of James Ensor.

Rodenbach Brewery

Rodenbach is a brewery and beer from Roeselare.The brewery was founded in 1821 by Alexander Rodenbach, his brothers Ferdinand and Pedro and their sister Amelia and her husband.Since 1998, the brewery part of Palm.Rodenbach produces a red colored beer mixed fermentation, the initial top-fermented beer is matured in large oak barrels (foeders) and gets desired by infection with the lactic acid bacteria a slightly acidic taste.In total there are 294 oak casks in the brewery, the oldest are more than 150 years old.The contents of these vessels varies between 12,000 and 65,000 liters.The beer is the type of old brown counted.Beer expert Michael Jackson once called the most refreshing beer Rodenbach world.Rodenbach uses Belgian hops.A now vanished from the range is the beer Rodenbach Alexander.Most recently, Redbach fruit beer (3.5%), a mix of classic Rodenbach with lightly sweetened cherry juice.Some new beers in the range: Rodenbach Vin de cereale (2007) and Rodenbach Vintage.

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