Sint-Michaëlskerk (St. Michael's Church)
Not to be confused with the small St. Michael's Church just outside the center of town, where Thomas à Kempis is buried, this one dates from 1446. Its dedication to the Archangel Michael, the winged guardian of Israel, is signified by a sculpture portraying him slaying the dragon, as told in the Bible in Revelation, and by a relief on an earlier Romanesque tympanum from around 1200 of Abraham with Michael and two other archangels. The interior is interesting for its octagonal vestry and the massive 4,000-pipe Arp Schnitger organ (1722), which is often used for concerts and recordings.
Not to be confused with the small St. Michael's Church just outside the center of town, where Thomas à Kempis is buried, this one dates from 1446. Its dedication to the Archangel Michael, the winged guardian of Israel, is signified by a sculpture portraying him slaying the dragon, as told in the Bible in Revelation, and by a relief on an earlier Romanesque tympanum from around 1200 of Abraham with Michael and two other archangels. The interior is interesting for its octagonal vestry and the massive 4,000-pipe Arp Schnitger organ (1722), which is often used for concerts and recordings.
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