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Nieuwveen
The drainage and the rebuilding

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 →

Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.

On this spot

H. Nicolaaskerk

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1862

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.

The drainage and the rebuilding Roman Catholic parish Researched later
1559

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.

Origins and the Middle Ages church Roman Catholic building From the typed document