Kerk Niehove
Niehove's church was visited by storks for centuries. This was so valued by the people of Niehove that in 1668, a stained glass depicting the church and a stork's nest in the middle was installed.
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One of the ministers at Niehove, L.M. de Boer, even wrote a welcome poem for the birds comprising no fewer than eight stanzas, in which the birds were celebrated. From 1882 onwards, however, the birds were no longer to be seen, despite the efforts of the church wardens to provide them with ‘a dwelling fitted out in accordance with the requirements of the times’. This church, situated in the centre of the mound in the village of Niehove, was built around the year 1230. Inside, there are dark brown pews, a black pulpit and, opposite it, much lighter-coloured gentlemen’s pews. The painted communion table, like the pulpit, dates from around 1800 and stands within the seventeenth-century baptismal screen.