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.
Provenance This comes from the series J.J. Roovers set down up to 1970. The wording here is this site’s own. View the source
On this spot
Ontmoetingskerk (formerly the Reformed church)
- 1578 In the year 1578
- 1831 In 1831
- 1831 On 14 July 1831
- 1832 On 22 April 1832
- 1858 In 1858
- 1929 In 1929
- 2011 On 6 February 2011
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In the year 1306
By this date a small Roman Catholic church already stands on the Kerkstraat (Church Street).
On 14 July 1831
The foundation stone is laid for the new Reformed church on the same site. The architect is Elsmeyer of Nieuwkoop.
Under the State Regulation of 1798 the tower had become the property of the civil municipality, and it is therefore rebuilt at the municipality's commission, to a design by Theo Molkenboer of Leiden. The cost is estimated at 2,100 guilders.
On 22 April 1832
The new Reformed church in the Kerkstraat is taken into use.
The church taken into use in 1832 in the entry beside this, a little over a hundred and forty years later. View larger → On 19 August 1867
The first Roman Catholic church since the Reformation opens on the Dorpsstraat. It had no tower yet; that would follow as soon as the money was there.
The Roman Catholic church on the Dorpsstraat, the first since the Reformation. View larger → On 1 April 2011
Founding of the Parochiefederatie HH. Clara en Franciscus, into which the parish of St Nicholas, founded in 1865, is absorbed. It later continues as the Heilige Clara Parochie.
In 2026
The diocese of Rotterdam agrees to the disposal of three of the six church buildings of the Heilige Clara Parochie. The H. Nicolaaskerk on the Dorpsstraat – taken into use on 19 August 1867, with the 1886 tower paid for out of his own pocket by parish priest J.J. Bruijstens – closes in 2028.
The parish council is aiming to keep the listed buildings in use with a new public function.