Suvarna Garge (Editor)

Thorn, Netherlands

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Flag
  
Coat of arms

Disestablished
  
December 31, 2006

Province
  
Date dissolved
  
2006

Capital
  
Founded
  
1292

Local time
  
Friday 3:58 AM

Thorn, Netherlands Thorn Netherlands hotelroomsearchnet

Established
  
Unknown; add start date

Weather
  
13°C, Wind E at 8 km/h, 69% Humidity

The white village of thorn netherlands


Thorn ( pronunciation , Limburgish: Thoear) is a town in the municipality of Maasgouw, in the Dutch province of Limburg. It lies on the rivers Meuse and Witbeek. It is known as 'the white village' for its white-washed brick houses in the centre of town.

Contents

Thorn, Netherlands Thorn Netherlands More information

History

Thorn, Netherlands Thorn Netherlands More information

First, the region of Thorn was a swamp nearby the Roman road between Maastricht and Nijmegen. But the region had been drained and about 975, Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht founded a Benedictine nunnery. This monastery developed since the 12th century into a secular stift or convent. The principal of the stift was the abbess. She was assisted by a chapter of at most twenty ladies of the highest nobility.

Thorn, Netherlands Thorn Netherlands hotelroomsearchnet

Previously the abbess and the chapter were endowed with religious tasks but, since the 12th century, they served secular matters and formed the government of a truly sovereign miniature principality, the smallest independent state in the German Holy Roman Empire, approximately 250 x 250 metres. Besides Thorn, Ittervoort, Grathem, Baexem, Stramproy, Ell, Haler and Molenbeersel belonged to this principality. After the French invasion in the winter of 1794–95 and the formal abolition in 1797 made an end to the existence of the abbey and the principality of Thorn; Thorn was first part of the department of Meuse-Inférieure, and after the Vienna Congress it became a municipality of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Thorn, Netherlands The white town of Thorn Limburg Hollandcom

Thorn, Netherlands httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons99

References

Thorn, Netherlands Wikipedia


Similar Topics