Basilique Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur de Sittard

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La basilique Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur (en néerlandais : Basiliek O.L. Vrouw van het Heilig Hart) est une basilique catholique située à Sittard dans la province de Limbourg aux Pays-Bas. C'est un lieu de pèlerinage dédié à Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur et la première église des Pays-Bas à recevoir le titre de basilique. Elle est reconnue comme monument national.

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Sittard-Geleen

Sittard-Geleen is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born. The combined municipality has approximately 92,650 inhabitants and is thus the third most populated municipality in Limburg. Since February 2020, it has been governed by a coalition of CDA, GroenLinks and the local parties GOB and Stadspartij. The highway connecting the centres of Sittard and Geleen, the Rijkswegboulevard, has been rebuilt to be a main route for cycling and walking. The provision for cyclists and pedestrians is generous and continuous. Side road junctions, or crossroads, are made 'subordinate'. The carriageways have been narrowed to one 3m lane in each direction. Parking places have been made, in small groups, at the side of the carriageways. These are made to be "not easy to use for larger vehicles," so the road centre is marked as a place for delivery vehicles to stop. To the west, Sittard-Geleen borders on Belgium, while to the east, it borders on Germany.

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Sittard

Sittard is a city in the Netherlands, situated in the southernmost province of Limburg. The town is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen and has almost 37,500 inhabitants in 2016. In its east, Sittard borders the German municipality of Selfkant. The city centre is located at 45 m above sea level.

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Sittard railway station

Sittard is a railway station located in Sittard, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1862 and is located on the Maastricht–Venlo railway and the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway. Train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Arriva. All services from South Limburg to the north pass through Sittard. Sittard has the longest railway platform in the Netherlands with a length of 700 metres.

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De Baandert

De Baandert was a multi-use stadium in Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands. Opened in 1964 it was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of Fortuna Sittard. The stadium was able to hold 22,000 people. It was closed in 1999 when Fortuna Sittard Stadion opened. The stadium hosted one international match of the Netherlands national football team: a friendly played on 27 May 1992 against Austria. The stadium also hosted the 1980 World Championships in Athletics featuring two events not included in the Summer Olympics 1980: the women's 400 metres hurdles and the women's 3000 metres run.

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Broeksittard

Broeksittard is a former village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is now a neighbourhood of the town Sittard, and part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen. It has partly kept its village character. Broeksittard was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1942, when it was merged with Sittard by the German occupier. From 24 March to 28 March 1543 Broeksittard was almost completely destroyed during the battle for the Kemperkoul. This battle was fought between Duke Wilhelm of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Emperor Charles V. The battle was won by Wilhelm and left over 4000 soldiers and 900 horses dead. Infuriated by his loss Charles gave permission to all his remaining soldiers to plunder the area resulting in mass rapes, murder, theft and devastation in the rest of the Gulik country.

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Histoire

En 1867, les ursulines de Sittard installent dans la chapelle de leur monastère une statue de Notre-Dame du Sacré-Cœur qui devient l'objet de pèlerinage mais l'édifice devient rapidement trop petit en raison du nombre croissant de pèlerins. Il est décidé de construire une église pour accueillir les fidèles, dont la première pierre, offerte par le pape Pie IX et provenant de la catacombe de Saint-Calixte, est posée le 2 juin 1875. La construction est achevée en 1877 et l'église est consacrée le 5 juillet 1879 par Joannes Paredis (nl), évêque de Ruremonde. Elle est élevée au rang de basilique mineure par le pape Léon XIII le 10 mai 1883devenant la première église des Pays-Bas à recevoir ce titre.

Architecture

La construction de l'église est confiée en 1873 à l'architecte Johannes Kayser (nl), formé par Pierre Cuypers. Il décide de construire l'église en néogothique qui présente de grandes similitudes avec l'œuvre de son professeur. La disposition de l'intérieur est en grande partie dérivée de celle de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon en France.