In 1888

The foundation stone for the Johannes Stichting is laid on the street then still known in common speech as the Dorpsstraat, now the A.H. Kooistrastraat.

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

Weteringplein

In 1887

Founding of the Vereniging Johannes Stichting by Dr J. Sasse.
The story begins earlier: the evangelist Smit took in children from the big cities at the Polderhuis, which stood at the crossroads in the village. Out of this came both the Marthastichting and the Johannes Stichting.
The aim was to run an institution for old and infirm people who could not keep themselves and were not cared for by their families – in its own words: "cast-out, uncared-for, dependent, old, weak or infirm persons, whether married or unmarried". Men and women lived separately at first.

The drainage and the rebuilding care Johannesstichting Researched later

1928

In 1928

The Johannes Stichting expands with a second house, Sterrenberg at Huis ter Heide.

The twentieth century up to the war care Johannesstichting Researched later

1967

In 1967

The Johannes Stichting decides definitively to devote itself solely to the care of people with an intellectual disability.

After 1945 care Johannesstichting Researched later

1974

In 1974

The Johannes Stichting leaves Nieuwveen. For want of room the residents move to a new complex, De Hooge Burch at Zwammerdam.
With that, after 86 years, the institution that had stood in the middle of the village since the foundation stone was laid in 1888 disappears. The buildings on the A.H. Kooistrastraat are demolished later.
The Jostiband Orkest moves with them; Zwammerdam has been its home base ever since.

From a village with its own municipality to a settlement of Nieuwkoop care Johannesstichting Jostiband Researched later

c. 2020 approximate

From 2020

Ipse de Bruggen draws up an investment plan for the period 2020–2032 for making the property on Landgoed Ursula more sustainable and renewing it.
On the 40-hectare estate – grown out of the gentleman's house the Revd Pieter Schoenmakers built on the Dorpsstraat in 1848, by way of "Sassenoord" and "Huize Sint Ursula" of 1935 – some 450 to 500 people with an intellectual disability live. Among other things eighty new care studios are being built, spread over two buildings.

From a village with its own municipality to a settlement of Nieuwkoop care building sustainability 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