From a village with its own municipality to a settlement of Nieuwkoop

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.

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

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

1888

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.

The drainage and the rebuilding care Johannesstichting building From the typed document

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

1966

In September 1966

1966-09

Founding of the Jostiband Orkest, as the music club of the JOhannes STIchting – hence the name – by Wim Brussen and Frits van der Scheer. The first performance takes place on 5 December 1966. Residents of Huize Ursula join early on as well.
The orchestra later grew into the largest orchestra in the world made up entirely of musicians with an intellectual disability.

After 1945 Jostiband music 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

1914

In 1914

Elim, the Johannes Stichting's annexe on the Kerkstraat where the women lived, burns down. There were no casualties.
After this fire men and women lived in a single building.

The twentieth century up to the war fire Johannesstichting From the typed document