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Oudenbosch - Kapel Saint Louis

City: Oudenbosch is a village in the West of the Netherlands, in the province North Brabant. The village is situated 10 km north of Roosendaal. The history of Oudenbosch goes back to 1275, when Arnout of Leuven and his wife Elisabeth, Lord and Lady of Breda, donated two hundred bunders (old unit of area) land and Baerlebosch swamp to the Abbey of the Cistercians of Saint Bernard in Antwerp. The monks mined the place settlements came into existence. The settlement Oudenbosch grew to a village. Today is Oudenbosch with his 12,810 inhabitants belonging to the municipality of Halderberge.

Gebouw: Kapel Saint Louis On the 5 September 1865 was the first stone laid by the mayor of Oudenbosch H. Van den Dries and his wife. The church was built in the Greek-Roman building style. There were thorough restorations in 1927 and in 1973.

Object: God's name can be found here at the top of the altarpiece, written as the Tetragrammaton.

 

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