Megen or Meghem is a small city in the southern part of the

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, in the province

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to th ...

, close to the river Maas. It is part of the

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municipality. The number of inhabitants is approximately 1700.

History

Megen used to be the capital of the feudal county of Megen (including Haren, Macharen and Teeffelen) that was founded around 1145. City rights were obtained in 1357. Of the two castles Megen used to have, only one tower is remaining. In 1810, the County Megen became a municipality, to which Haren and Macharen were added in 1821. The municipality Megen, Haren en Macharen became a part of the municipality

in 1994.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.

Ecclesiastical history

In 1803 became one of the eponymous components of the Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen, a Roman Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction which was suppressed in 1853, its territory merged into the

Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch The Roman Catholic Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch ( la, Dioecesis Buscoducensis) is a diocese of the Catholic church in the Netherlands. The modern diocese was created in 1853. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Utrecht. It is currently led ...

. Currently, there are two monasteries in Megen. One is inhabited by the Clarissas (also called the

Poor Clares The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare ( la, Ordo sanctae Clarae) – originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and later the Clarisses, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis ...

), followers of St. Clare of Assisi. The other is occupied by the Franciscans, followers of St.

Francis of Assisi Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christiani ...

Gallery

File:Megen panorama, kerk, latijnse school, klooster, hof van lof.JPG, Megen panorama, church, Latin school, Franciscan monastery and its garden File:Megen rijksmonument 28540 St.Servatiuskerk vooraanzicht Schoolstraat 1.JPG, St Servatius Church File:Megen rijksmonument 516586 Dr.Baptiststraat 13.JPG, House in Megen File:Ville de Megen 650 ans, le moulin en fête.JPG, Wind mill during the 650 year anniversary

References

External links

Official Website of Megen
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