Kruisherenhotel Maastricht

Maastricht, Netherlands. Located in the heart of Maastricht’s old town, on the Kommel near the medieval city walls.

Kruisherenhotel MaastrichtMaastricht, Netherlands

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Address: Kruisherenhotel Maastricht
Kruisherengang 19-23
6211 NW Maastricht
Netherlands
Telephone: +31 43 329 2020
Official website: www.oostwegelcollection.nl
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60 contemporary rooms and suites inside the former monastery complex.
Spencer’s Restaurant & Bar on a mezzanine inside the Gothic church, with a cocktail bar and a glass wine cellar.
Design interiors by Henk Vos, winner of a European Design Award, and a copper entrance tunnel by Ingo Maurer.
Located in the heart of Maastricht’s old town, on the Kommel near the medieval city walls.

11 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

4 January 1438
The Bishop of Liège authorises a walled monastery for the Crosiers, on land donated by Gilles of Elderen.
1440 – 1509
The Gothic church is built by master builders Petrus Toom and Johannes van Haeren; the choir is consecrated in 1470.
c. 1520
With the monastery wings completed, the complex takes the form it will keep for some 500 years.
1796
After the French capture of Maastricht the monastery is dissolved; the buildings become an arsenal and barracks.
1897
The State Agricultural Testing Station moves in and government architect Jacobus van Lokhorst restores the complex.
1912 – 1914
Government architect Daniël Knuttel renovates the church.
2000
The City of Maastricht sells the complex to entrepreneur Camille Oostwegel.
2003 – 2005
Architect Rob Brouwers converts the listed monastery into a design hotel using a reversible “box in box” approach.
1 September 2005
The hotel opens and receives the city’s Victor de Stuers monument prize; Henk Vos wins a European Design Award.
2011
Named hotel of the year by the Dutch Gault Millau guide.
2017
Officially classified five-star, the only one in Maastricht and Limburg.