2019 - Heritage organization BOEi takes over the Witte Kerkje in Bladel (NB) and the adjacent community center De Dissel from the protestant community of Bladel. They sign a lease agreement for the next five years so that the church activities can be continued in the same way.
The church was built in the garden of the rectory. Its predecessor was a neo-Gothic basilica from 1880 , designed by Peter Bekkers , to which the 15th-century tower was attached. This was demolished in 1927 , but the tower was preserved. The current church is a large church in eclectic style and has a number of remarkable dome towers, including a somewhat higher tower on the cross-passage. The architect of this church was Hubert van Groenendael . It is seen as a transition between neo-Gothic and the Amsterdam School . The vault of the church is painted with scenes, including the Works of Mercy. There are stained glass windows depicting the Apostles.
Jehovah's Witnesses church
Three-aisled neo-Romanesque cruciform basilica with west tower. Typical of C. Franssen's oeuvre, in this case built under slight influence of late Romanesque architecture in the German Rhineland. The interior has plastered rib vaults. Some stained glass windows in the left wall of the nave are (presumably) from the previous church. The church was expanded in 1935 with two side aisles by J. Franssen.
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