Boxmeer is a town and a municipality in the east of Noord-Brabant. Apart from Boxmeer itself, the municipality consists of the villages Beugen, Groeningen, Holthees, Maashees, Oeffelt, Overloon, Rijkevoort, Sambeek, Vierlingsbeek and Vortum-Mullem. From 1296 until 1797 Boxmeer and the surrounding area was a sovereign territory, which remained catholic after the Reformation.
The Johannes Nepomucenuskapel was built in Baroque style in 1737. It was built as the chapel of the castle behind it, replacing an older chapel on the site of the castle itself.
Location: Veerstraat 51, Boxmeer
The protestant church was built in 1822 opposite the Nepomukchapel, after protestant attempts to obtain that chapel had failed. It's a small one-aisled building in simple neo-Classical style.
Location: Veerstraat 24, Boxmeer
The St. Petrus' basilica is a large church in Traditionalistic style, designed by H.W. Valk and built in 1949-1952. It replaced an older, part Gothic, part neo-Gothic church which was largely destroyed in 1944. Next to the church is a Carmelite monastery from the 17th century.
Location: Steenstraat 41, Boxmeer
The former convent of the Sociëteit van de Zusters van Jezus, Maria en Jozef (sisters of Jesus, Mary and Joseph) was founded in 1864 and housed in a group of older buildings. The chapel was added in c. 1930 and is in a simple neo-Romanesque style.
Location: De Raetsingel 1, Boxmeer
The church Maria ten Hemelopneming in Beugen dates back to a 15th-century Gothic church which was enlarged by P.J.H. Cuypers in 1879 and again by H.C. van de Leur in 1932. Due to war damage in 1944, little of the old church remains, and in 1954 the destroyed parts of the church were replaced by new ones, again by H.C. van de Leur.
Location: Kerkplein 3, Beugen
On the
cemetery behind the church a small neo-Gothic
cemetery chapel
was built in the second half of the 19th century, possibly
designed by P.J.H. Cuypers.
Location: behind Kerkplein 3, Beugen
Oeffelt is where P.J.H. Cuypers in 1853 built his very first church. Unfortunately, in 1944 it was destroyed. The current church Zoete Naam Jezus is an important example of the post-war Traditionalism of the Bossche School. It was designed by N. van der Laan and built in 1954-1956.
Location: Kerkplein 3, Oeffelt
The church of Rijkevoort is the St. Rochus, built in 1888 in neo-Gothic style by J. Kayser and enlarged in 1927 by C. Franssen and his son J. Franssen and in 1955 by J. Strik.
Location: Mr. van den Bergplein 8, Rijkevoort
The
late-Gothic
Sint-Janstoren was
built between 1486 and 1532 and is all that remains of a medieval
church. The actual church was destroyed by German troops in 1944. Two
attempts to dynamite the
tower as well luckily failed.
Location: Grotestraat 63-65, Sambeek
The destroyed church was replaced in 1953 by the current St. Jan de Doper, a church in Traditionalistic style designed by E. Nijsten.
Location: Grotestraat 63-65, Sambeek
The former Redemptorist convent was founded as a monastery by German refugees in 1873, during Bismarck's Kulturkampf. An older house was enlarged, but the male population was replaced by nuns already in 1874. In 1882 a neo-Gothic chapel was added, designed by J. Kayser.
Location: Grotestraat 69, Sambeek