Kerk Lettelbert
When Lettelbert church was being restored in 1985, construction workers made a lurid find. When opening a scaffolding hole that had been used during the church's construction, it turned out to be full of parts of a human skeleton.
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There is still no definitive answer to the question of how these bones came to be here and, above all, why. The bones have been returned to the south wall after being thoroughly examined. Lettelberg Church was built in the thirteenth century on a foundation of large field boulders. The simple hall church was probably originally a straight-ended structure, but now has a multi-sided chancel. This is thought to date from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The weather vane in the shape of a climbing lion commemorates the church’s patrons, the lords of Nienoord. The simple interior was given a beautiful colour scheme during the 198 restoration. Among other things, the blue colour of the ceiling was discovered during this work.