Attention stone - Saint Theresa's Foundation

Sint-Teresiagesticht (1874-1965)

Thanks to the estate of Father Schrijvers, the church council built a new convent with school rooms, neo-Romanesque chapel and an infirmary in 1874. St. Teresa's was a convent complex of the Congregation of the Sisters of Jesus Mary Joseph, a monastic order focused on providing education for poor children and care for the elderly and sick. In 1931, the Saint Nicholas Hospital was built next to the convent where the sisters provided care for the sick. The sisters taught a kindergarten and a 7-class elementary school for girls. They also taught French, music and crafts. In consultation with the Saint John the Baptist church council, the R.C. ULO school for girls was established in 1938. In 1940, a new elementary school for girls, the "Teresiaschool," was built in Wilhelminastraat . The convent complex on Grotestraat was demolished in phases from 1960 to 1965.