Groede, NL

Grote Kerk

NH Church. Three-aisled hall church with a three-sided closed choir, a north choir and a tower with an octagonal superstructure and a spire. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 13th century; the tower with perpendicular buttresses dates from the 14th century. The nave and the north aisle were built in the second half of the 15th century. The south aisle served as a Walloon Church from 1618 to 1808 and was separated from the rest of the church around 1685. During a major renovation in 1868, the church was completely plastered on the outside and the windows were given new traceries. After a lightning strike, the tower was restored and deplastered in 1950. The interior is covered by a flat stucco ceiling from 1868. An important part of the interior is the pulpit with surrounding baptismal garden in Louis XVI style: donated in 1794 by descendants of Jacob Cats. The single manual organ was built in 1903 by JF Kruse (Leeuwarden).

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Protestantse Kerk

NH Church. Modest freestanding hall church, hipped roof and roof turret and ball pirons. On the south side consistory built under a lean-to roof. Bell tower with bell by JA de Grave, 1720, diam. 64 cm.

Vrije Evangelische Gemeente

Together with Breskens and Retranchement. After the sale of the three buildings in Breskens, Retranchement and Nieuwvliet, the Free Evangelical Community temporarily worshipped in the Multifunctional Centre Het Torentje in Groede. On 11 September 2004, the official inauguration of a new regional church at Provincialeweg 2 in Nieuwvliet took place. The architect is Lockefeer & Verhulst Projecten in Aardenburg, ir. MR Willems arch. BNA. The construction, drawings, model, etc. of the new church can be found at www.people.zeelandnet.nl/jvdwege

Heilige Barbara

The Sint Barbarakerk is a catholic emergency church from 1950 that was never replaced in a later period. The church is decorated with beautiful wood carvings and sculptures, made by emeritus pastor and sculptor Omer Gielliet. The statues of this artist can be found in many places in the Netherlands and Belgium. In and around the church, in the Europastraat, many of his statues stand and hang, including a crucifix made from a 10,000 year old tree trunk. On the facade of the church hang portraits of celebrities such as Pope John XXIII, Bishop Bekkers, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Along the path to the church are six sculptures and to the right of the path are the twelve apostles.

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