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Important "hidden church" without a tower. The Reformation began in 1517 with the nailing of Luther's theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg, but it was not until around 1566 that a Lutheran community was established in Breda. The community consisted largely of people of German descent. For a long time, they had a hidden church on the Nieuwstraat. In 1777, the community bought a house on the Veemarktstraat, called 'Repos Ailleurs'. It was a large house with a forecourt. In 1786, the Lutheran church was consecrated in the renovated mansion. Two houses had been built on the forecourt so that the house could only be reached through a gate from the Veemarktstraat. It is the only still functioning hidden church in Breda. In 1838, the church was thoroughly renovated. The pointed arch windows that are visible from the inner courtyard were also installed then. The church was restored in 1966-1967.

This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Lutheran church, three-aisled building, which owes its current form to a major renovation around 1780 of an older building. Neo-Gothic facade with tower from 1895. Internally in the central nave a stucco barrel vault and galleries in the side aisles. Oak pulpit with oak baptismal fence from the second half of the 17th century. Organ made in 1882 by JA Strobel (Bad Frankenhausen) to replace the Bätz organ that was made in 1790. Two beautiful rococo singing boards with swans. Mid-17th century benches. Tribunes consistory (church council room) from 1910 with chimney piece and on wallpaper (linen stretched in wooden frames) the names of ministers, elders, church treasurers and deacons. Modern extension next to the church square.

Evangelical Lutheran Church. Situated on the corner of Goilberdingerstraat and Achterstraat, simple, brick hall church, rebuilt in 1839 on the site of the chapel of the St. Pietersgasthuis, which was rebuilt for the Lutherans in 1676, already mentioned in 1386. The building has a hipped roof with a hexagonal wooden dome tower at the front, has pointed arch windows and an entrance in a simple Empire frame. Inside, a pointed arch wooden barrel vault and a pulpit with lectern and baptismal fence from around 1840. To the left and right of the pulpit, gentlemen's pews with panels, which show sculpture from 1676-1677. Organ with main work and secondary work, made in 1897 by G. van Druten. Bell frame with bell by G. Schimmel, 1686, diam. 48.8 cm.

The church building of the Evangelical Lutheran community in Leeuwarden was built in 1774 to a design by the Roman Catholic city architect Van Nooteboom (1733 - 1812), with financial support from mainly the community of Amsterdam. The memorial stone in the front facade is a reminder of this. The simple building, a hall church with galleries, replaces an older church from 1681, financed by Andreas Moeller, whose funeral plaque still hangs in the church. The church was restored in 1994.

The Baroque castle chapel in the Schloss Weesenstein received its solemn consecration on June 23, 1741 as a private chapel of the king of Saxony. In 1870, King John of Saxony handed the chapel to the citizens: he had himself set up a small Catholic chapel in the former washhouse.

The building was designed by F. Corten and construction began in 1976.

Built in 1966 as a church of the Free Baptist Church Bethel. Expansion in 1991. Due to the great growth of this community, this church soon became too small again.

Modern church.

This church with no dedication is located in Crumbach, part of the Gemeinde Lohfelden in the south-east of the City of Kassel in the German Bundesland Hesse.