Roermond Discovery Tour: Older Than the Outlet

Munsterkerk

The Munsterkerk was consecrated in 1220 as the church of a Cistercian abbey. In the nineteenth century Pierre Cuypers restored the church, and in 1924 the abbe…

Munsterplein

The Munsterplein came about when abbey buildings and a lock-up disappeared after 1865. On the square stands a cast-iron bandstand from the 1880s, made by the C…

Prinsenhof

The Prinsenhof on Pollartstraat was built after a fire in 1665 as a palace for the stadtholders of the Upper Quarter of Guelders. On the façade you see the Gue…

Caroluskapel

Behind the gate on Swalmerstraat lies the Caroluskapel. From 1376 a Carthusian monastery stood here. In 1572 monks were murdered here, the Martyrs of Roermond.…

Stadhuis

The town hall on the Markt has a façade from 1698-1701 and a roof tower from 1709. The cellar is much older. The tower holds the town carillon, with eight figu…

Sint-Christoffelkathedraal

St Christopher's Cathedral was built from 1410. Roermond became a bishop's seat in 1559. In February 1945 the tower was blown up; it was rebuilt and given a st…