Adventkerk
Put into service on November 1, 1968.
Put into service on November 1, 1968.
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).
Extraordinarily important neo-Gothic church, one of the two (together with the St. Lambertuskerk in Rotterdam-Kralingen) remaining Roman Catholic neo-Gothic churches in 2023, which are actively used as church buildings in Rotterdam. Extension with tower and nave 1904-1905, AAJ Margry and JM Snickers. In 2002, this beautiful church was designated a national monument. Architecturally, this church is extra interesting because of the similarity, in terms of structure of the front facade, with a main tower in the middle and two side towers on either side, with the Roman Catholic St. Bonifatiuskerk in Zaandam; such neo-Gothic "westworks" do not occur elsewhere in the Netherlands. Historically, this church is extremely interesting in terms of name, because it is the only St. Hildegardiskerk in the Netherlands. Hildegardis was / is one of the first female saints in the Roman Catholic Church.
Built as Dutch Reformed Church. Iconic large hall church with expressionist details and a high, unarticulated tower with a copper-green spire placed to the side, built in 1933-1934 to a design by LN Krijgsman jr. Also of great urban development significance. Internally considerably modernised, but still interesting. Stained glass window by MJ Richters, placed inside the church space in 2009.