Carmelite Monastery

The Carmelite Monastery consists of four wings grouped around a central cloister. Within the monastery are eighteen magnificent 17th-century stained-glass windows based on designs by the Flemish artist Abraham van Diepenbeeck.

Other remarkable treasures include six oil paintings originating from the castle, depicting three generations of counts and countesses of the Houses of Bergh and Hohenzollern from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The monastery is flanked by the Latin School, built in 1707, and a gatehouse dating from 1653. The gatehouse features Renaissance decorations, which were intentionally placed on the garden side rather than the exterior. This symbolises the Carmelite ideal of being in the world, but not of the world.

The monastery was also the workplace of the composer Benedictus Buns (1641-1716), one of the most important Dutch composers of the seventeenth century.

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