De Amshoff

A beautiful, secluded building, this is a colonial church from the 19th century with an octagonal roof turret. The arms of the city can be found in the wind vane on turret. In 1754, the 800 inhabitants of the town of Windeweer applied to the municipality of Groningen for a private church with a pastor. Their request was granted almost immediately and in 1755 the city of Groningen build this peat colonial church with a presbytery.

About this building

During construction, Hendrik Amshoff supervised the construction on behalf of the town architect. The first inhabitant of the church and parsonage gave the name De Amshoff to the ensemble. After the church and parsonage were restored in 2001, by order of the Oude Groninger Kerken Foundation, De Amshoff has become a culinary outdoor venue, apart from the conference center and heritage lodgings. Weddings still take place in the church.

Other nearby buildings

Nieuw Apostolische Kerk

In the early seventies of the twentieth century, the two churches of the New Apostolic Church in Hoogezand and Sappemeer were too small to accommodate the number of members. It was decided to build a third church in the new residential areas in the southwest of Hoogezand. The architect was WC van Asperen from Rotterdam. The church was put into use in 1972. In 1981, the church was partly destroyed by fire and put into use again in 1982. In 2010, the congregation was merged with the congregation on the Noordersingel in Hoogezand.

Brick church in a park

Kropswolde

Documents have shown that there was already a church here in 1350. The current church is from 1778. After the demolition of the detached medieval tower in 1888, a new one was built against the church.

Heilige Willibrordus

St. Willibrordus, 1866-1873, Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921) . Three-aisled neo-Gothic hall church without transept. Pointed gables on the side aisle bays. Tower with two niches in each facade, frontals and four-sided spire. Articulated brick pillars with moulded capitals, cross-ribbed vaults. Polychrome interior with painted brick; furnishings and glazing from the construction period, from the Cuypers & Stolzenberg studio in Roermond. The windows in the nave partly come from the St. Martinus church in Foxham-Martenshoek, which closed in 1990. Early work from Cuypers' second period, influenced by the Westphalian hall church Gothic. Mechanical tower clock.