With the protestant
religions emphasizing on the sermon rather than rituals, the idea
emerged to put the preacher in the center of the church. Although this
was not always possible in the churches the protestants had taken from
the Catholics, there were too many former catholic churches or usable
parts of these left to justify the construction of entirely new
buildings. As a result, relatively few new protestant churches were
built between the Reformation and 1795, when the Reformed protestant
religion lost its privileges. Especially in the predominantly catholic
south of the country this church in Hooge Zwaluwe is a rare exception,
and a monumental one as well. This is explained by the fact that this
village was still in in the province of Holland at that time, and the
church was paid for by prince Frederik Hendrik, who was lord of Hooge
and Lage Zwaluwe. The architect was none other than Jacob van Campen,
one of the most famous architects of that period. |
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