History [ edit ] http://365project.org/pyrrhula/365/2018-02-12http://365project.org/pyrrhula/365/2018-02-13 The construction of the church [ edit ]
The church, founded in 1342 , was dedicated to Our Lady in the Snow and in 1472 under Wolfert V van Borselen became a collegiate church consisting of twenty canons . In addition to these choirs there were five chaplains, a Cantor and three choir singers attached to the parish. The new building was run from 1479 by the Flemish architect Antoon I Keldermans . After his death in 1512, his son Rombout took over that task.
After 1520, the Heer van Veere and his relatives were no longer buried in the chapel of Sandenburgh Castlebut buried in a burial cellar in the Grote Kerk. The church must have contained numerous graves, including that of the Scottish king's daughter Maria Stuart , who died in 1465 , who was married to Wolfert VI of Borsele and therefore Marquise of Veere. Priests were buried in a priest's grave in the choir and for those who had enough money, a grave or a burial cellar was reserved under the floor of the church. The graves were an important source of income for the church. For others there were graves in the cemetery around the church.
After 1521 all construction activities were discontinued: thus the planned stone net vault was not realized: the church held a wooden ceiling. The heavy, built-in west tower remained stuck at one articulation. The church was beautifully decorated and dedicated in 1543 by George van Egmont , Bishop of Utrecht .
The Church of the Dutch Reformed Church in Veere [ edit ]
The church was decorated in 1572 for Protestant worship. Jan van Miggrode , the former parish priest, became the first minister in 1572 . The reformers had a wall built between ship and transept . After all, they did not have any processions within the church and gathered around a new pulpit in the middle aisle.
Because the huge church was much too big for little Veere, the building was divided up. Ship and transept were in the future called the "Big Church". The transept and side aisles with the now dismantled guild chapels became a walking church without a religious function. The funerals under the floor will have continued and raised a lot of money for the church masters. The central aisle became the Sunday sermon: there were church benches around a pulpit.
The "Little Church" in the choir was divided into three parts: the north aisle was leased as a storehouse for the trade goods in anticipation of a Scottish predecessor [1] . After 1613, the Protestant Scots got a minister and their own separate prayer room. The French - speaking Walloon Reformed Churches in the Little Church on Sunday. Every afternoon during the week there was an afternoon service of the Dutch Reformed Congregation. The Lutherans gathered in the third beech of the Little Church.
The church treasures have largely been lost. At the time of the Reformation, the inventory contained copper holy water vessels , copper candlesticks, silver candlesticks (only on heyday in use), a twenty-light iron crown, chandeliers, guild chapels , confessionals, ordained crosses , a copper choir fence , a main altar of marble with statues dedicated to Mary. of kneeling angels, a choir altar with a relic of St. Perpetuus of Milan in a silver reliquary in the shape of his skull and a painted triptych by Anthonis Janszoon van der Goude. Almost nothing has been preserved of all these Roman decorations. The silver and liturgical tableware of the church was sold in Dordrecht in 1572. The chandeliers were sold to the Sint-Catharinakerk in Brussels where they still hang today. The choir fence was removed. The Roman clergy, as far as they were not Protestant, had to flee to the Southern Netherlands .
Three cemeteries arose around the Grote Kerk . The Scots buried their corpses under the floor of their chapel, which was nicknamed "Scottish Saal" or in the cemetery that was also called Scottish Cemetery. The cemetery was walled to prevent the pigs that were allowed to walk around in the city at that time, to dig up the graves.
On May 25, 1686 a great fire raged in the nave of the church. Unsustainable plumbers caused fire and the entire chapel of the church was destroyed. Also the celebration tower above the intersection and the square wooden tower structure with the hanging clocks were lost. The burning beams crash down on the church floor. Tombstones and monuments were lost. The roofs were then restored as simply as possible. The pointed construction of the choir was demolished to enable a simpler and flat roof construction to be made.
In 1795, all rights of the Scottish colony in Veere fell. Their church disappeared and the northern beech was added to that of the Lutherans in 1799.
The Great Church in French times [ edit ]
In 1800 , much damage to the church was caused by a severe storm. In 1809 the church was bombed by the British fleet. The British wanted to conquer the strategically important Walcheren, but they did not succeed in getting the Veere extra fortified by Napoleon . Because the sea was very restless, the bombing failed. The bullets that were fired from the highly fluctuating ships either fell into the water or they flew over the small Veere.
In 1809, the French set up a four-storey hospital in the vacant ship. On the ground floor, horses were stored. Hundreds of POWs who had been taken prisoner by war had contracted Zeeland fevers , a form of malaria . Six to eight British patients died per day. On the French side 1427 deaths were recorded in nine months. They removed the triforium and they closed the windows. An optical telegraph wasinstalled on the tower on 14 October 1810 [2]. The French stripped the graveyard around the Great Church of tombstones to make it a walking garden. They planted trees and laid out paths. Eighteen banks were placed in a semicircle circle behind the choir [3] . In 1813, the countless tombs in which prominent inhabitants of Veere were buried under the floor of the church, and the tombs under the church were emptied by the French pioneers . Even when relatives guarded the half-decayed crates waiting for transport elsewhere, it was for the French with the words "they were not good Catholics" on the crates and battles. They played with the skulls and bones [4] . The remains of gravestones were used as windowsill.
In 1811, Veere had been depopulated so much and the Reformed congregation had become so small that they no longer wanted to use the now heavily dilapidated Grote Kerk. They retired to the south and middle aisles of the Little Church in the choir. In that year, the last church furniture was removed from the church that had fallen into disrepair. The little Dutch Reformed Congregation moved to the nearby Little Church .
The sacrament silver of the Scots is now in the Anglican cathedral of Manchester . The pulpit was sold to the Protestant church of Westkapelle . The organ went to the Lutheran church in Groede . The sacred sermon of the French-speaking congregation was used by the Dutch Reformed Congregation after the abolition of that congregation in 1817.
The Great Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands [ edit ]
Where once large windows were, they were later divided into smaller ones, when the church served as a military hospital and was divided into storeys.After the departure of the French, the Dutch State took over the church, with the exception of the choir , and rebuilt it into a beggar's house, but in 1839 it became a hospital again. Jacob van Lennep and Dirk van Hogendorp visited the church in 1823 and Van Lennep described Veere as a city in the "deepest decline". He noted that the hundred detainees had a good treatment about the beggar's house. There were no patients except the scabies [5] . The Great Church was from 1823 to 1827 the shelter of vagrants, orphans and drunks who could not provide for their own maintenance. The inhabitants were saddled, weaved and spun. A pastor gave religious instruction.
After 1815 it was no longer allowed to be buried in churches. This meant that a lot of income was lost for the church masters and that made the maintenance of the churches more difficult.
The two beech trees were too big and too expensive for the Lutherans and in 1835 the north aisle was sold to Jacob Sonius, bricklayer in Middelburg. This businessman could use the stones well and he had the almost three hundred year old building in 1837 demolished.
In 1840 two of the three naves of the choir were still preserved. In the middle and south aisles, Dutch people now preached Reformed ministers. The large central nave with the four floors laid out there remained a storage facility for wood, merchandise and carriages until 1890. The church, owned by the State since 1795, was regarded by the Ministry of War as part of the military facilities of the Veere fortress, which was maintained until 1861. When in 1873 the vestingwet of Weitzel Veere was held final approval to a fortress to be. Het Rijk sold the enormous but useless structure to the Church Guardian of the Reformed Congregation of Veere.
This sale brought the Great Church in acute danger; the church guardians wanted to demolish the building and sell the stones and the wood. An action by Charles de Coster and the Zeeland Society of Sciences ensured that the sale was canceled again.
Thanks to the efforts of Victor de Stuers , the building was preserved as a monument and in 1890 the four wooden floors were removed again. The building became a national monument in that year [6] . The building is still owned by the State and is currently part of the portfolio of the Government Buildings Agency .
The fact that the building was considered an important monument ensured that the building was preserved but a worthy destination did not receive the bulk of the church. The nave of the church was used during the 19th and 20th century as a stable, indoor football field, storage of a contractor and a timber trade, banquet hall, military hospital and after the flood of 1953 as an emergency barn for the rescued cattle. It was not until the 70s of the 20th century that the church received a cultural destination. People placed glass halls and modern toilets in the church building.
The Little Church in the choir is still in use for worship by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands .
@777margo Not for a lot off people. It`s a part of there history and lifes. The preservation cost a lot of money and we/they `re willing to pay for that.
Your photo of the inside of this huge church almost seems to have ghosts. Probably "felt" after I read its history. The vacant building hopsfully can be purposed again.
This cathedral looks so big and so bare, too. Thank you for the elaborate history. Looks like it went through great times and hard times. Glad its potential as a historic building has been recognised and that it is being considered as a national monument.
The church, founded in 1342 , was dedicated to Our Lady in the Snow and in 1472 under Wolfert V van Borselen became a collegiate church consisting of twenty canons . In addition to these choirs there were five chaplains, a Cantor and three choir singers attached to the parish. The new building was run from 1479 by the Flemish architect Antoon I Keldermans . After his death in 1512, his son Rombout took over that task.
After 1520, the Heer van Veere and his relatives were no longer buried in the chapel of Sandenburgh Castlebut buried in a burial cellar in the Grote Kerk. The church must have contained numerous graves, including that of the Scottish king's daughter Maria Stuart , who died in 1465 , who was married to Wolfert VI of Borsele and therefore Marquise of Veere. Priests were buried in a priest's grave in the choir and for those who had enough money, a grave or a burial cellar was reserved under the floor of the church. The graves were an important source of income for the church. For others there were graves in the cemetery around the church.
After 1521 all construction activities were discontinued: thus the planned stone net vault was not realized: the church held a wooden ceiling. The heavy, built-in west tower remained stuck at one articulation. The church was beautifully decorated and dedicated in 1543 by George van Egmont , Bishop of Utrecht .
The Church of the Dutch Reformed Church in Veere [ edit ]
The church was decorated in 1572 for Protestant worship. Jan van Miggrode , the former parish priest, became the first minister in 1572 . The reformers had a wall built between ship and transept . After all, they did not have any processions within the church and gathered around a new pulpit in the middle aisle.
Because the huge church was much too big for little Veere, the building was divided up. Ship and transept were in the future called the "Big Church". The transept and side aisles with the now dismantled guild chapels became a walking church without a religious function. The funerals under the floor will have continued and raised a lot of money for the church masters. The central aisle became the Sunday sermon: there were church benches around a pulpit.
The "Little Church" in the choir was divided into three parts: the north aisle was leased as a storehouse for the trade goods in anticipation of a Scottish predecessor [1] . After 1613, the Protestant Scots got a minister and their own separate prayer room. The French - speaking Walloon Reformed Churches in the Little Church on Sunday. Every afternoon during the week there was an afternoon service of the Dutch Reformed Congregation. The Lutherans gathered in the third beech of the Little Church.
The church treasures have largely been lost. At the time of the Reformation, the inventory contained copper holy water vessels , copper candlesticks, silver candlesticks (only on heyday in use), a twenty-light iron crown, chandeliers, guild chapels , confessionals, ordained crosses , a copper choir fence , a main altar of marble with statues dedicated to Mary. of kneeling angels, a choir altar with a relic of St. Perpetuus of Milan in a silver reliquary in the shape of his skull and a painted triptych by Anthonis Janszoon van der Goude. Almost nothing has been preserved of all these Roman decorations. The silver and liturgical tableware of the church was sold in Dordrecht in 1572. The chandeliers were sold to the Sint-Catharinakerk in Brussels where they still hang today. The choir fence was removed. The Roman clergy, as far as they were not Protestant, had to flee to the Southern Netherlands .
Three cemeteries arose around the Grote Kerk . The Scots buried their corpses under the floor of their chapel, which was nicknamed "Scottish Saal" or in the cemetery that was also called Scottish Cemetery. The cemetery was walled to prevent the pigs that were allowed to walk around in the city at that time, to dig up the graves.
On May 25, 1686 a great fire raged in the nave of the church. Unsustainable plumbers caused fire and the entire chapel of the church was destroyed. Also the celebration tower above the intersection and the square wooden tower structure with the hanging clocks were lost. The burning beams crash down on the church floor. Tombstones and monuments were lost. The roofs were then restored as simply as possible. The pointed construction of the choir was demolished to enable a simpler and flat roof construction to be made.
In 1795, all rights of the Scottish colony in Veere fell. Their church disappeared and the northern beech was added to that of the Lutherans in 1799.
The Great Church in French times [ edit ]
In 1800 , much damage to the church was caused by a severe storm. In 1809 the church was bombed by the British fleet. The British wanted to conquer the strategically important Walcheren, but they did not succeed in getting the Veere extra fortified by Napoleon . Because the sea was very restless, the bombing failed. The bullets that were fired from the highly fluctuating ships either fell into the water or they flew over the small Veere.
In 1809, the French set up a four-storey hospital in the vacant ship. On the ground floor, horses were stored. Hundreds of POWs who had been taken prisoner by war had contracted Zeeland fevers , a form of malaria . Six to eight British patients died per day. On the French side 1427 deaths were recorded in nine months. They removed the triforium and they closed the windows. An optical telegraph wasinstalled on the tower on 14 October 1810 [2]. The French stripped the graveyard around the Great Church of tombstones to make it a walking garden. They planted trees and laid out paths. Eighteen banks were placed in a semicircle circle behind the choir [3] . In 1813, the countless tombs in which prominent inhabitants of Veere were buried under the floor of the church, and the tombs under the church were emptied by the French pioneers . Even when relatives guarded the half-decayed crates waiting for transport elsewhere, it was for the French with the words "they were not good Catholics" on the crates and battles. They played with the skulls and bones [4] . The remains of gravestones were used as windowsill.
In 1811, Veere had been depopulated so much and the Reformed congregation had become so small that they no longer wanted to use the now heavily dilapidated Grote Kerk. They retired to the south and middle aisles of the Little Church in the choir. In that year, the last church furniture was removed from the church that had fallen into disrepair. The little Dutch Reformed Congregation moved to the nearby Little Church .
The sacrament silver of the Scots is now in the Anglican cathedral of Manchester . The pulpit was sold to the Protestant church of Westkapelle . The organ went to the Lutheran church in Groede . The sacred sermon of the French-speaking congregation was used by the Dutch Reformed Congregation after the abolition of that congregation in 1817.
The Great Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands [ edit ]
Where once large windows were, they were later divided into smaller ones, when the church served as a military hospital and was divided into storeys.After the departure of the French, the Dutch State took over the church, with the exception of the choir , and rebuilt it into a beggar's house, but in 1839 it became a hospital again. Jacob van Lennep and Dirk van Hogendorp visited the church in 1823 and Van Lennep described Veere as a city in the "deepest decline". He noted that the hundred detainees had a good treatment about the beggar's house. There were no patients except the scabies [5] . The Great Church was from 1823 to 1827 the shelter of vagrants, orphans and drunks who could not provide for their own maintenance. The inhabitants were saddled, weaved and spun. A pastor gave religious instruction.
After 1815 it was no longer allowed to be buried in churches. This meant that a lot of income was lost for the church masters and that made the maintenance of the churches more difficult.
The two beech trees were too big and too expensive for the Lutherans and in 1835 the north aisle was sold to Jacob Sonius, bricklayer in Middelburg. This businessman could use the stones well and he had the almost three hundred year old building in 1837 demolished.
In 1840 two of the three naves of the choir were still preserved. In the middle and south aisles, Dutch people now preached Reformed ministers. The large central nave with the four floors laid out there remained a storage facility for wood, merchandise and carriages until 1890. The church, owned by the State since 1795, was regarded by the Ministry of War as part of the military facilities of the Veere fortress, which was maintained until 1861. When in 1873 the vestingwet of Weitzel Veere was held final approval to a fortress to be. Het Rijk sold the enormous but useless structure to the Church Guardian of the Reformed Congregation of Veere.
This sale brought the Great Church in acute danger; the church guardians wanted to demolish the building and sell the stones and the wood. An action by Charles de Coster and the Zeeland Society of Sciences ensured that the sale was canceled again.
Thanks to the efforts of Victor de Stuers , the building was preserved as a monument and in 1890 the four wooden floors were removed again. The building became a national monument in that year [6] . The building is still owned by the State and is currently part of the portfolio of the Government Buildings Agency .
The fact that the building was considered an important monument ensured that the building was preserved but a worthy destination did not receive the bulk of the church. The nave of the church was used during the 19th and 20th century as a stable, indoor football field, storage of a contractor and a timber trade, banquet hall, military hospital and after the flood of 1953 as an emergency barn for the rescued cattle. It was not until the 70s of the 20th century that the church received a cultural destination. People placed glass halls and modern toilets in the church building.
The Little Church in the choir is still in use for worship by the Protestant Church in the Netherlands .
The tower can now be climbed for a fee.