Weteringplein

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 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.

Dr Sasse proposes carrying the organ of his Johannesstichting over to the school every Sunday, to accompany the singing of the gereformeerde congregation.

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

Three Jewish residents of the Johannesstichting are arrested, deported to Camp Vught and murdered shortly afterwards at the Sobibor extermination camp. Two of them were Mozes Ricardo (born 29 December 1881) and Rebekka Worms (born 21 September 1891).

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.

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

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.

The Jostiband celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a concert in a sold-out Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, in the presence of King Willem-Alexander.

Three Stolpersteine are unveiled on the Weteringplein for the Jewish residents of the former Johannesstichting who were deported and murdered in 1943.

The Jostiband is sixty years old and is appointed Ambassador of Freedom by the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei, the national committee for the days of remembrance and liberation.