Sint-Anna Klooster

January 2012

Discovery of an unlikely complex lost in the middle of the Dutch countryside.
Sint-Anna Klooster is a heterogeneous set of buildings around an 17th century castle. Growing constantly from 1910, it will display a whole series of buildings of different styles and eras, as well as a vast and astonishing neo-Romanesque L-shaped chapel.

A veritable maze, the venerable walls have housed successively a religious congregation, a care home, a psychiatric hospital, a home for single women, and finally an institution dedicated to children.
In this regard, it would appear that during the 1950s, 34 girls and boys died in circumstances still unclear. Atmosphere...

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The site was greatly destroeyd in November 2012. The remaining wings will be transformed into housing.
If we can rejoice in the renaissance of the place, we can still regret the disappearance of a large part of the buildings, even if they didn't have a great architectural or historical interest.

© Monumentje !
Aerial view showing the complex at the time of its splendor.
Since then, the left wing has already disappeared for a long time and of the complex visited, only the chapel (far right) and the castle (center left, white walls) still exist.

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