Nonnenbrug with Academy Building Leiden Netherlands by Hendrik-Jan Kornelis

About "Nonnenbrug with Academy Building Leiden Netherlands"

by Hendrik-Jan Kornelis

About the artwork

The Nonnenbrug is a 1978 fixed stone bridge in the city centre of the Dutch city of Leiden. The bridge connects the Nonnensteeg and the Kloksteeg near the Academiegebouw and bridges the Rapenburg.The first bridge on this site was built in 1426 (according to a city account from that year, a new bridge was built 'between lord Jacobs van Rysoorde ende den Baghinen'). The name only came about when later (around 1447) the White Nuns settled on Rapenburg in the Dominican convent, which was confiscated after the Leiden Dismay in 1574 and has been used by Leiden University since 1581. The bridge was renewed in 1609/1610 and rebuilt in 1669 and 1978. In 1911, the eastern vault was renewed. On 2 May 1968, the Nonnenbrug was registered as a national monument in the Monument Register.The Nonnenbrug also traditionally forms part of the route of the university's cortèges to or from, for example, the Town Hall or the Pieterskerk.The Academiegebouw dates from 1516 and is the oldest building of Leiden University. In that year, it was dedicated as a chapel for the Dominican convent located on Rapenburg. The facade consists of eight bays, fitted with tall pointed arch windows. The interior of the church was lost in the first Iconoclasm in 1566; the building itself was confiscated after Leidens ontzet (Leiden Liberation) in 1574. Since 1581, the building has been used by the university founded six years earlier. In 1616, the building was rebuilt to