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Grimbergen Abbey church.
Grimbergen Abbey belltower.
Monk of Grimberghen Abbey
Nicolaus a Spira, abbot between 1543 and 1568
Erik de Sutter, right, current Abbot

Grimbergen Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, established in 1128 in the place of an earlier foundation of Augustinian Canons.

The abbey itself was dissolved in 1796 in the aftermath of the French Revolution, but the abbey church of Saint Servatius survived as the parish church of Grimbergen. After the French Revolution the abbey was reinstated. The building in its present form dates from 1660. It was elevated to the status of basilica minor in 1999.

Abbots

After the French Revolution

Other

Grimbergen is also known[by whom?] for its cheese, bread and beer, although at present its beer is being produced by the Carlsberg Group.[citation needed]. In May 2021 they announced they are now producing their own beer.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Belgian abbey raises brewery from ashes after 200 years". 27 May 2021.

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