St. Odiliënberg
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Sint Odiliënberg is a small village in central Limburg, in the Netherlands, east of the river Maas in the Roer valley. It is one of the three villages in the municipality of Ambt Montfort.
Standing on a hill is a Romanesque basilica with two towers dating from the 11th century. Next to the basilica is a chapel from the same period.
Until 1991, Sint Odiliënberg was a separate municipality; since then it is part of the municipality of Ambt Montfort in Limburg. Its flag was adopted 14 April 1971: "yellow with a blue hoist-triangle, reaching the fly, charged with a white five-leaved flower with a yellow heart. Proportions 2:3."
[edit] History
Sint Odiliënberg is a few kilometers south of Roermond, lying along the small Roer river. Romans settled here very early. In AD 706, Saint Wiro, Saint Plechelmus, and Saint Otgerus built an abbey, which was important in the christianisation of the Netherlands. In the time of the Viking invasions the Utrecht clergy found shelter here. At first it was a secular canon's see, which was moved to Roermond in the 14th century. On the St. Odiliën mount the Sepulchrine Order settled in the 14th century. After the Eighty Years' War this area became Spanish; it was ceded to the Dutch Republic in 1715. Until the French municipal reorganisation St. Odiliënberg belonged to the administrive division known as Ambt Montfort, but it became a separate commune/municipality c. 1810, until it remerged in Ambt Montfort.
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