Maria Church
Brick and old monk stones are the building blocks of the Kortezwaag church. The simple building has a sober interior, including a pulpit from the seventeenth century. The church is not often used.
About this building
The church of Kortezwaag is on a small elevation and is surrounded by a beautiful cemetery. The simple church is mostly made out of brick, with some monk stones still visible, that were left over from the original church that was demolished in 1896. Until the end of the nineteenth century there was a belfry at the church. In 1896 the two clocks were sold. One of these two bells, a richly decorated twelfth or thirteenth-century clock, is known as the oldest clock in the Netherlands. It is now in the clock museum in Asten, in North Brabant. There is a large Mariamonogram on the clock and in reverse the text ‘Ave Maria’. This Maria clock probably comes from the Maria chapel that stood in Kortezwaag in the Middle Ages. The current clock in the roof turret is from 1947. The church of Kortezwaag is used several times a year for wedding and funeral services, sometimes even including multi-day events. It is also used for the keeping of the so-called ‘preaching of the layman’, for musical performances and as rehearsal room for choirs. It is also used for the annual participation in Czar's Council.
