H. Nicolaaskerk

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 parish of St Nicholas is founded, two years before the church building is taken into use.

The first Roman Catholic church since the Reformation opens on the Dorpsstraat. It had no tower yet; that would follow as soon as the money was there.

The first Roman Catholic primary school opens on the Dorpsstraat, opposite the Roman Catholic church.

The Roman Catholic church on the Dorpsstraat, in use since 1867, gets its tower after all. The parish priest, J.J. Bruijstens, paid for it out of his own pocket.
The tower was designed by Everardus Margry of Rotterdam, who also designed the church at Hoogmade and the St Bonifatius church in Alphen aan den Rijn. Its height including the cross is 48 metres; the spire alone is 22 metres.
In the porch stand two monumental memorial stones: one of 1559, from the first Nicolaaskerk in the Kerkstraat, and one of 1740, from the old presbytery at Zevenhoven.

The Netherlands Reformed manse opposite the Roman Catholic church on the Dorpsstraat serves as a Schreibstube, an orderly room, for the German troops billeted in Nieuwveen.

The new Roman Catholic infant school Nieuwe Oogst opens on the Dorpsstraat, opposite the Roman Catholic church. For a hundred years the manse of the Netherlands Reformed congregation stood on that site.

Founding of the Parochiefederatie HH. Clara en Franciscus, into which the parish of St Nicholas, founded in 1865, is absorbed. It later continues as the Heilige Clara Parochie.

The diocese of Rotterdam agrees to the disposal of three of the six church buildings of the Heilige Clara Parochie. The H. Nicolaaskerk on the Dorpsstraat – taken into use on 19 August 1867, with the 1886 tower paid for out of his own pocket by parish priest J.J. Bruijstens – closes in 2028.
The parish council is aiming to keep the listed buildings in use with a new public function.