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Sint-Michielsabdij | |
 St Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, engraved after Peter Paul Rubens | |
| Monastery information | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Abbatia Sancti Michaelis Antverpiae |
| Order | Premonstratensian |
| Established | 1124 |
| Disestablished | 1795 |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Norbert of Xanten |
| Architecture | |
| Status | suppressed 1795 |
| Functional status | demolished 1831 |
St Michael's Abbey in Antwerp was a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1124 by Norbert of Xanten and laid waste during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1807 a semaphore station was installed in the tower of the church.[1] The buildings were demolished in 1831.
The abbey has been described as "one of the key churches and most significant monuments in Antwerp from its foundation in the 12th century to its destruction in the nineteenth."[2]
- ^ Rob Korving, Bart van der Herten, Een tijding met de snelheid des bliksems: de optische telegraaf in de Nederlanden (1800-1850) (Leuven University Press, 1997), p. 63.
- ^ B. Haeger, "Abbot Van der Steen and St Michael's Abbey: The restoration of its church, its images, and its place in Antwerp", in Sponsors of the Past: Flemish Art and Patronage, 1550-1700, edited by Hans Vlieghe and K. Van Der Stighelen (Brepols: Turnhout, 2005), p. 157.
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