Hazebrouck,
la Flamande
Brood
of Augustins
Its construction commençé at the beginning of the 16 2nd century to shelter a sharp religious community with the command of Augustins. It opened there into 1630 the first college of HAZEBROUCK. After the departure of the monks, under the Revolution, the buildings were useful has various uses: court, gendarmerie, old people's home, hospital and even town hall. Today they shelter in addition to a vast village hall, the museum, the arts centre of Flanders and the library of the Flemish committee of France. There remains only three on the four sides of the cloister: the vault which closed it side of the place George Degroote, was demolished under the revolution. Seen place, the left wing, with the pinion with step of sparrow is the part more ancienne(1518), but it was deeply altered, the right wing, more significant, presents, under a pinion with volutes, a frontage decorated with the armorial bearings of the command of Augustins and those of HAZEBOUCK.La frontage giving on the street of the Museum presents a curious decoration baroque of from Antwerp inspiration.
Its construction commençé at the beginning of the 16 2nd century to shelter a sharp religious community with the command of Augustins. It opened there into 1630 the first college of HAZEBROUCK. After the departure of the monks, under the Revolution, the buildings were useful has various uses: court, gendarmerie, old people's home, hospital and even town hall. Today they shelter in addition to a vast village hall, the museum, the arts centre of Flanders and the library of the Flemish committee of France. There remains only three on the four sides of the cloister: the vault which closed it side of the place George Degroote, was demolished under the revolution. Seen place, the left wing, with the pinion with step of sparrow is the part more ancienne(1518), but it was deeply altered, the right wing, more significant, presents, under a pinion with volutes, a frontage decorated with the armorial bearings of the command of Augustins and those of HAZEBOUCK.La frontage giving on the street of the Museum presents a curious decoration baroque of from Antwerp inspiration.
