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This particular decor could be connected in some way with the youth centre operated at the abbey in connection with an adjoining diocesan school. And the church itself, though it was was ceded back to the Premonstratensians in 1960, still serves a local parish. The cloister may be used for children's parties. But I'm just guessing.
The whole site was badly damaged twice: once in a late sixteenth-century war and again in World War II. Other sides of the cloister have purely modern construction.
Best again,
John Dillon
On Friday, March 30, 2007, at 8:39 am, Marjorie Greene wrote:
> "The abbey church at Hamborn was rebuilt in the seventeenth century.
>
> The adjoining
> cloister of 1170 retains some of its medieval appearance:
> http://tinyurl.com/25akn8"
>
> Except for what looks like cement (?) plaster (?) resin (?) creatures
>
> around an old well. I see a rabbit and a peacock and something else
> in the foreground. Any idea whose (kitschy) notion that was? Reminds
> me of hideous plaster statues in otherwise pristine Romanesque
> churches.
> MG
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