Place
Kerkstraat (Church Street)
The oldest street in the village; recorded in 1331 as "der kerc lane".
Kerkstraat, Nieuwveen
What happened here
14 events
In the year 1306
By this date a small Roman Catholic church already stands on the Kerkstraat (Church Street).
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.
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.
In 1567
The Kerkstraat is drawn on a map of this year.
In the year 1640
By this date a general village school is already standing beside the Reformed church on the Kerkstraat.
In the year 1828
A cattle market is instituted, to be held in the Kerkstraat.
In the year 1830
A new general village school opens beside the Reformed church on the Kerkstraat.
The schoolmaster’s house. Whether it housed the master of the school in the entry beside this, the source does not say — the house still stands. View larger → On 20 January 1878
A great fire strikes the village. On what is now the A.H. Kooistrastraat and in the Kerkstraat, two substantial farms, a café and some ten houses are lost, and with them a large part of the municipal archive.
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.
On 27 June 1922
The gemeenteraad abolishes the cattle market in the Kerkstraat, held since 1828. Interest had already dwindled sharply around 1900.
In 1927
The Kerkstraat, until then surfaced with fine gravel, is the first road in the village to get a coat of road tar.