Corneliuskerk (Noordwelle)

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The Corneliuskerk at Noordwelle
View to the tower

The Corneliuskerk is a late Gothic Evangelical Reformed parish church in Noordwelle (municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland ) in the Dutch province of Zeeland .

history

The Corneliuskerk is a church with a four-bay nave and a three-bay long choir with a 5/8 end . Until the Reformation it was consecrated to a saint Cornelius . The building of the church is dated to the second half of the 15th century.

In the course of the siege of Zierikzee by the Spaniards during the Eighty Years War , Schouwen-Duiveland was flooded by the defenders in 1575. Spanish troops fled to the higher parish church in Noordwelle and finally to its tower. All Spaniards died when the church was finally set on fire. The church was later restored. In 1754, the top of the tower was replaced by a new, striking octagonal tower on the square tower basement. In 1892 the long choir, deprived of its function in the Reformed church service, was separated and a school was set up there. This construction measure was reversed in the course of a renovation in 1960. Today the church belongs together with the Jacobuskerk to the Hervormde Gemeente Renesse / Noordwelle within the Protestant Church in the Netherlands .

literature

  • Peter Don, Kunstreisboek Zeeland, ed. from Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information Corneliuskerk Noordwelle (pdf)

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 6.4 "  N , 3 ° 47 ′ 33.7"  E