1945 – 1970
27 events
The market gardens along the Jaagpad by the Amstel switch from vegetables to flowers.
The Jaagpad along the Amstel, where market gardening gave way to growing flowers. View larger → Mechanisation on the farms of Nieuwveen carries on. Farm work appeals to workers less and less; many take jobs elsewhere, in the rising industries and in house building.
Heated glasshouses for flower growing keep going up along the Jaagpad. Vegetable growing declines further.
The municipality builds the first Housing Act houses on the W.P. Speelmanweg — four of them, with a state subsidy.
Beside his house on the Oude Nieuwveenseweg, the vet Adr. Boogaerdt sets up a small animal hospital with an operating room, for livestock as well as pets.
The gemeenteraad adopts a bye-law giving every street and road in Nieuwveen an official name — for the first time ever.
On that occasion the names of the two men of the resistance who were killed are fixed: the Stationsweg becomes the W.P. Speelmanweg and part of the Oude Nieuwveenseweg becomes the A.H. Kooistrastraat. That explains the street names Roovers uses throughout without explanation.
The Rijkstelefoon, the state telephone service, is automated in Nieuwveen under the dialling code 01723.
The first sub-post office had already opened in 1851, at the house of mayor S. van Driel on what is now the A.H. Kooistrastraat, beside the Raadhuis, in a room that served as the municipal office. He was the first kantoorhouder, office-keeper, though the title at the time was still brievengaarder, letter-gatherer.
Huize St. Ursula gets a church of its own on the grounds.
Queen Juliana, on a working visit to the Rijnstreek, calls at Huize St. Ursula on the Dorpsstraat. She stayed about three quarters of an hour.
The clothing workshop Kwiek opens in the Schoterveld expansion plan, with work for about 60 women. Only a few girls from Nieuwveen itself come to work there.
The first houses of Schoterveld go up in the Nieuwkoop polder, west of the W.P. Speelmanweg. Never before had anything been built in the municipality's agricultural area.
A new school with twelve classrooms and a gymnasium opens on the grounds of Huize St. Ursula, for special primary education.
More and more commuters settle in the Schoterveld expansion plan. They buy houses of their own, built with a state grant or in the private sector without government support. The make-up of Nieuwveen's population changes profoundly as a result.
The clothing workshop Kwiek, started in Schoterveld in 1955, closes. The municipality buys the building and fits it out as a gymnasium, chiefly for primary school pupils. In the evenings local clubs use it, among them the gymnastics club Kwiek.
The Boerenleenbank (Raiffeisenbank) moves into a new building on the Oude Nieuwveenseweg, the manager's residence on the upper floor.
The new Roman Catholic infant school Nieuwe Oogst opens on the Dorpsstraat, opposite the Roman Catholic church. For a hundred years the manse of the Netherlands Reformed congregation stood on that site.
Founding of the Jostiband Orkest, as the music club of the JOhannes STIchting – hence the name – by Wim Brussen and Frits van der Scheer. The first performance takes place on 5 December 1966. Residents of Huize Ursula join early on as well.
The orchestra later grew into the largest orchestra in the world made up entirely of musicians with an intellectual disability.
The Johannes Stichting decides definitively to devote itself solely to the care of people with an intellectual disability.
Plans for a new Protestant infant school in the Conradpark are well advanced.
Nieuwveen reaches 3000 inhabitants. That includes the residents of the Johannes Stichting and Huize St. Ursula: together some 800 people, patients and nursing staff. Both institutions had grown strongly in those years and become known nationally.
The small church of the Evangelisation Society, dating from 1870, is demolished. In its place comes the Netherlands Reformed meeting hall 't Anker.
The buildings of the Ons Belang cooperative on the Oude Nieuwveenseweg, dating from 1905 and extended in 1912, close. An electrical installation firm buys them.
A new provincial road is being laid out, largely on the old railway bed between the former Nieuwveen station on the W.P. Speelmanweg and De Driesprong at Blokland. It is expected in the spring of 1972 and is meant to take through traffic out of the heart of the village, where it causes congestion every day.
A new state primary school is to be built in the Conradpark.
The gemeenteraad of Nieuwveen, seven members strong from of old, goes to eleven now that the village numbers 3000 inhabitants.
Nieuwveen is connected to the national mains gas network. The coal stoves used from of old, and the oil stoves burning domestic heating oil that had come into use alongside them, are cleared out in great numbers; bottled gas (Butagas) for heating goes out of date.
On the Jaagpad along the Amstel, mains gas is not yet available.
Roovers' series stops here. Everything after this comes from other sources.
