In 1862
A number of Nieuwveen Catholics petition the bishop of Haarlem to be allowed to continue as a parish of their own. Until then they went to church in Zevenhoven.
Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.
On this spot
H. Nicolaaskerk
- 1865 In 1865
- 1867 On 19 August 1867
- 1876 On 9 June 1876
- 1886 In 1886
- 1940–1945 Between 1940 and 1945
- 1965 In 1965
- 2011 On 1 April 2011
- 2026 In 2026
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In 1865
The parish of St Nicholas is founded, two years before the church building is taken into use.
Nieuwveen on Kuyper's municipal map, around 1866 — the village as it lay when the parish was founded. 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 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.
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 9 June 1876
The first Roman Catholic primary school opens on the Dorpsstraat, opposite the Roman Catholic church.