Herkenrode Abbey (Limburgish: Abdij van Herkenrode) was monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Kuringen, part of the municipality of Hasselt, which lies in the province of Limburg, Belgium. Since 1972 some of the surviving buildings have served as the home of a community of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, who have since built a new retreat center and church on the site.

In 1974 the buildings and the surrounding estate were designated and since then protected as a national historical monument and landscape.

Although the original church was lost in a fire in the 19th century, most of its artworks survive, some at Hasselt’s town museum. And more than 200 years later, many of the outbuildings are still intact, including the gatehouse, mill-house and a tithe barn. For the last decade the latter has been home to a visitor centre where you can take a chronological tour through the history of the abbey and get to know the abbesses who controlled big tracts of land in Medieval times.

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