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The Town Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis ⓘ) of Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium, is a landmark building and the seat of that city. Built in a Brabantine late-Gothic style between 1526 and 1537, it is listed as one of the Belfries of Belgium and France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [1]
There’s the ground floor with its striking colonnade and its remarkable pointed arches. The central Belfry graciously reaching out to the clouds. Sumptuously decorated frames with collars adorned with angels, mermaids and hunting scenes.
You really should visit Oudenaarde’s Late Gothic town hall, the belfry of which belongs to UNESCO World Heritage. You start your tour of the interior in the adjacent 14th-century cloth makers’ hall, which was recently renovated and has now become the new home for original tapestries made in Oudenaarde.
- Stadhuis. Rising emphatically at the north end of the Markt plaza is one of the finest town halls in the country. This was built between 1526 and 1537 and has a highly decorative Brabantine Gothic style.
- Mou Museum. The museum in the cloth hall is not to be missed, for the strength of its collections and its engaging, tactile displays. The reason you have to go in is to marvel at the 15 sumptuous tapestries, woven in Oudenaarde in the 16th and 17th century.
- Sint-Walburgakerk. If you approach Oudenaarde from the south, the 88-metre tower of the Sint-Walburgakerk hoves into view before any other landmark. The tower, crested by a Baroque slate dome, is from the 16th and 17th centuries, and since 1894 has contained Oudenaarde’s 49-bell carillon.
- Ronde van Vlaanderen. Spring, normally the start of April, is time for one of the five “Monuments” of profession road cycling. The Tour of Flanders is a one-day classic, run extensively on gruelling cobblestones and centred on Oudenaarde where the race has finished every year since 2012.
Sep 23, 2023 · The beautiful town hall is a UNESCO World Heritage site as it was listed as one of the Belfries of Belgium and France in 1999. The history of the Oudenaarde Town Hall is a tapestry woven with threads of time, politics, and culture.
The Oudenaarde Town Hall was a late flowering of secular Brabantine Gothic architecture, carrying on the stylistic tradition of the town halls at Leuven, Brussels, and Middelburg.
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MOU is situated in one of the most beautiful town halls in Belgium. On the ground floor the guide takes you along on a trip in time, from the Middle Ages till today, via interactive media and historical pieces.
