Andreaskerk
Important early reconstruction church with tower and side rooms, built as the first post-war church in Rotterdam, with many interesting details. Built as an Evangelical Lutheran Church, to replace the church in the city centre that was destroyed by war in 1940. Now also primarily in use as an Evangelical Lutheran Church. Built to replace the Evangelical Lutheran church in the city centre that was destroyed by the bombing of 1940. One of the first newly built churches in Rotterdam after the Second World War. Traditionalist single-nave hall church from 1948 with three-sided closed over-bricked apse, unarticulated saddle roof tower, built to a design by B. van der Lecq. Strongly influenced by indigenous and North German Romanesque architecture. Internal detailing in clean brickwork. Visible laminated pointed arch points in the nave. Pew plan, pulpit, altar table and stone baptismal font designed by architect Van der Lecq, abstract stained glass windows and murals in the outbuildings by G. van Iersel. Tower top relief with pelican motif by sculptor Gerard Hoppen (1885-1959).
