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During the Second World War, the church of Nieuwstadt was located where the front stopped in September 1944. It is therefore one of the few churches around Sittard that suffered considerable war damage. The first shelling took place between 19 and 29 September 1944 by the Americans, which incidentally caused little damage. On 12 November 1944, however, when the Americans were in Nieuwstadt, the Germans started firing back with much heavier material. This happened in the morning hours, when a Holy Mass was in progress. The shelling lasted for three quarters of an hour, during which one person was fatally hit and the church suffered considerable damage. This was repeated two days later, but now no one was injured. On 21 November 1944, the English relieved the Americans and Nieuwstadt was evacuated. The village suffered from German grenade and mortar fire for another four months. (Source: [1]

Replaced barn church from 1752. Single-nave neo-Gothic church with tower, built in 1854-1856. Internal plastered vaults. Altar, pulpit and other furnishings from the construction period, probably from Louis Veneman. Organ by Gebr. Adema from 1856. Neo-Gothic front designed by Dirk Ypma.

St. John the Baptist's Church is a late Gothic choir with a three-sided closure, 16th century. Internal corbels with sculpted heads and as the final piece of the vault a wooden bust of St. John the Baptist. Vault paintings. The inventory includes a Crucifix, 16th century, a Madonna statue, 16th century and three statues of St. John the Baptist, respectively 15th, 16th and 19th centuries. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Neo-Romanesque church with tower. Replaced a barn church from 1775. In 2017 celebration of the 125th anniversary of this church building. Also restoration of church and tower.

Carnival chapel, replaced emergency church from 1954. Modern, relatively small church without a tower.

A hall church from 1899-1900. In 1907 the nave was partly demolished again to expand the church by adding side aisles along the nave. This church is listed as a National Monument of the Netherlands.

Nice modern church, without a tower, with various side rooms, and a portable chest organ from 1968 by Verschueren.

New neo-Gothic St. John's Church with roof turret, tower not built. The church replaced the adjacent "Little St. John" from the thirteenth century. This beautiful neo-Gothic church, and the historic Little St. John, are the only church buildings still in use in the Hoensbroek Parish.

Interesting church building with roof turret in Amsterdam School style in Buitenkaag, which was called Leeghwaterdorp until the 1960s.

Parish of Saint Christoffel. The predecessor, a temporary wooden church, also called a 'car church', was destroyed by fire in 1959. The current church was put into use in 1960. Hall church in modernist forms under a gently sloping lean-to roof and a squat, low bell tower against the front facade.