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Nieuwveen
The drainage and the rebuilding

On 4 May 1870

Opposite the present Raadhuis (town hall) on the A.H. Kooistrastraat, the foundation stone goes down for the small church of the Evangelisation Society.

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

Nieuwveen (village centre)

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1331

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.

Origins and the Middle Ages charter name church Researched later
1357

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.

Origins and the Middle Ages church charter 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
1578

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.

Origins and the Middle Ages church the Reformation From the typed document
1831

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.

The drainage and the rebuilding church demolition From the typed document