On 21 July 1331
The oldest firm mention of the village name. Count Willem III grants permission to sell "die leenacker legghende bi der kerc lane te Nuwenvene" — the fief-field lying by the church lane at Nuwenvene. Both the name Nuwenvene and the Kerkstraat – then "der kerc lane" – are therefore on record in 1331.
The medieval church was dedicated to Saint Nicholas and was in the gift of the Counts of Holland.
Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.
On this spot
Kerkstraat (Church Street)
- 1306 In the year 1306
- 1357 On 13 October 1357
- 1567 In 1567
- 1640 In the year 1640
- 1828 In the year 1828
- 1830 In the year 1830
- 1878 On 20 January 1878
- 1880 On 4 May 1880
- 1895 On 22 December 1895
- 1914 In 1914
- 1917 On 14 May 1917
- 1922 On 27 June 1922
- 1927 In 1927
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On 13 October 1357
Count Willem states that he has no objection to the exchange of Willem van Schade, priest at Nieuwveen, with one Servaas, priest at Bunschoten.
Around the year 1200
A settlement takes shape here that will later be called Nieuwveen.
The name shifted considerably over the centuries: first Nuenvene, then Nijeveen and Niuweveen, in the seventeenth century Nieuveen, after that Nieuweveen, and from 1795 Nieuwveen.
In the year 1306
By this date a small Roman Catholic church already stands on the Kerkstraat (Church Street).
In the year 1559
A new Roman Catholic church goes up on the Kerkstraat, replacing the small one already there. The old church was dedicated to St Anne; the new one took St Nicholas as its patron.
In the year 1578
The Reformation reaches Nieuwveen. The 1559 church on the Kerkstraat passes into Reformed hands. The village's Catholics from now on belong to the parish of Zevenhoven.
In 1831
The church on the Kerkstraat, built by the Catholics in 1559 and Reformed since 1578, is pulled down.
A likely cause of the building's poor condition is the draining of the polder twenty years earlier: the church stood on the edge of the drained polder, and its foundations subsided.