Kerk Engelbert

This simple hall church was built in the 13th century. There were many renovations and restorations. During the last restoration of 2005, the previously demolished sacramental niche was reinstalled in the eastern wall and provided with the Gothic crowning.

About this building

The crooked vessel and the dented north wall give the age of the church a price, despite the modern-looking plaster layer. On top of the west façade, there is a curiously indented roof turret with a clock from 1630.

Inside, the sacrament knowledge is particularly striking. The pulpit from the 18th century comes from the church in Heveskes. The church is now used by former Catholics, a community that separated from Rome in 1723 and after 1870. It is a church with its own history, that dates back to the arrival of Christianity in the country at the time of Willibrord. This is where the church gets the name: old-catholic. The organ was built in 1938 by the firm H.W. Flentrop from Zaandam.

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Originally a late Romanesque church, the eastern side is the oldest part of the building. The interior is beautifully decorated with a pulpit, staircase and font from 1743, and four sacrament sets with carved attachments.

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Harkstede Church

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Herv. Church. In 1692 rebuilt church building in Gothic style completely vaulted and also with a basement. The tower of the 13th century church was preserved with a zone of niches on the south side and traces of them on the east side. On the north side of the church an extension was built that is just as large as the tower, containing the burial vault of the founder family Piccardt-Rengers and the church room, above which another room. On the west side access stairs to the church and side stairs to a gallery against the west facade. Above the entrance gate large coat of arms stone Rengers-Piccardt and date 1694; above that large relief stone with adoration of the Lamb of God. In the tower the coat of arms of the city of Groningen; on the western and northern gable ornamental vases. In the church richly carved pulpit with sounding board and accessible via stairs in the wall thickness. All pews with carved knobs and crowns on the doors; adjoining baptismal gate, Gentlemen's bench in the north extension. Organ above the passage to the north extension in case with coats of arms Piccardt Rengers, built in 1695 by Arp Schnitger. Much of the instrument has been lost. Stained glass windows in the north extension. In the choir sculpted stone representing the Mannaregen. Mechanical tower clock, Jos van de Kerkhof, Aarle-Rixtel.