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converted to Christianity, and beheaded here by her heathen father.
On the high-altar are good stone-carvings with the history of the
saint. In the ambulatory is the reliquary of St. Dympna, probably
painted by a contemporary of Memling. The choir contains the marble
sarcophagus of Jan III. of Merode and his wife, a fine Renaissance
work (1554). In the choir-chapels are two altar-screens, adorned with
finely-executed carving and painting (restored). A painted group
in stone, neat the church, bears a Flemish inscription, recording
that St. Dympna was beheaded on this spot, 30th May, 600. The
church of St. Amand, in the market-place, contains carved choir—
stalls and confessionals and a marble balustrade in front of the choir.
A steam-tramway connects Gheel with Heyst-op-den-Berg (p 208) and
with (44 M.) Zurnhout (p. 204).
34 M. Moll (Rail. Restaurant) is the junction of a line to Diest
and Tirlemont (see p. 209). Steam-tramways to Sichem (p. 208) and
to Turnhout (p. 204). — 3741/5 M. Baelen- Wesel ; 43 M. Lommel.
481/5 M. Neerpelt, the junction of the Hasselt-Eindhoven line
(p. 484). —54 M. Lille-St-Hubert. — 54 M. Hamont (Rail. Restaur-
ant), the last Belgian station (custom-house). — 5Dt/o M. Budel
is the first station in Holland (custom-house). — 64 M. Weert
(Engel, R. & B. 11/4, D. 11/p fl.), on the Zuid-Willems -Vaart (p. 454),
has a late-Gothic church of the 15th cent., with a lofty modern tower,
and the scanty remains of a chateau of the Counts of Hoorn (p. 128).
In the vicinity are some important zinc-mines.
[To Maeseyck, see
p. 209. — 681/y M. Baewem-Heythuysen; 7141/2 M. Haelen. — 77 M.
Roermond, the junction for the Maastricht-Venlo line, see p. 453,
— 801/y M. Melick-Herkenbosch. — 841/. M. Vlodrop, the last Dutch
station, with the custom-house. — 85 M. Dalheim, the Prussian
frontier-station (luggage examined). — 94 M. Wegberg; 94 M.
Rheindahlen; 9'71/> M. Rheydt, where the line to Aix-la-Chapelle
diverges to the right.
400 M. Minchen-Gladbach, and thence to (117!/) M.) Dissel-
dorf, see Baedeker’s Rhine.
17. From Brussels to Braine-le-Comte and Mons.
88 M. Rarzway in 1-2 hrs. (fares 5 fr. 80, 3 fr. 90, 2 fr. 35c.). Trains
start from the Gare du Midi at Brussels (p. 89). The express-trains be-
tween Brussels and Paris run by this line: 193 M., in 4-6 hrs., fares 34 fr. 35
(drawing-room car 6 fr. extra), 23 fr. 75, 14 fr. 8) c.; comp. P. 216.
From Brussels to (9 M.) Hal, see pp. 9, 8. The Mons train
diverges here to the S. from the Tournai line (R. 1b). — 104/o M.
Lembecq-les-Hal.
From LemBecg TO ERQUELINNES Or CHIMAY, via Fauroeulx, 37 or 68M.,
railway in 2 hrs. or 31/2 hrs. (fares 5 fr. 70, 3 fr. 90, 2 fr. 80, or 10 fr. 35,
7 fr. 5, 4 fr. 20c.). — Chief stations: 2M. Clabecq, junction of the line to
Tubize and Braine-l’Alleud (p. 243); 131/2 M. Ecaussines (p. 217), where the
line from Ghent to Manage and Charleroi is crossed. — From (181/2 M.)
Houdeng- Goegnies a branch-line runs to Soignies (p. 213), and light rail-
ways to Reulx, to Bracquegnies (p. 217), and via La Louviére (p. 247),
Haine-St-Pierre, and Jolimont to Manage (p. 247), and to Mariemont, |
